Where The Legend Began

About 15 miles from our campground is Kiln, Mississippi the small town where Brett Favre, football legend and local hero, grew up and graduated from high school.  His family still lives in the area and his dad owns the Broke Spoke, the local dive biker bar where we stopped for a cold one and to get a look see at what everyone had been jabberin' about.  

The Broke Spoke is crazier than a road-runnin' lizard,and is the place where Packer fans stop and leave a token of their visit tacked to the ceiling or wall.  The place is full ta burstin' with pictures and posters, hundreds of bras and underwear in every type, size and color imaginable hanging from the ceiling.  Most have a person's name and where they're from written on them.  The garments are full of dust and yellowed from cigarette smoke; most looked like they had made this their home for many years. Inside and outside of the building are autographs of visitors either carved in the wood, or written with a magic marker.  The homemade bar stools are painted green and gold with GO PACK GO painted on the seats.

Purty quiet at the Broke Spoke on a Sunday.

We  drove back to Kiln today and had lunch at Dempsey's Steak and Seafood.  Inside the door is a cardboard cut-out of a guy holding a sign that says "Please Wait to Be Seated".  The waitress standing across the room hollers "How MINy?"  I held up 2 fingers and said "two".  She grabbed a couple of menus, headed to a table and hollers "Come over here y'all".  Everyone going into the restaurant got hollered at.  The chandelier in the entry was a Christmas tree hanging upside down from the ceiling, and lampshades on the rest of the ceiling lights were metal buckets and washtubs.  What a hoot!