Everybody’s working for the weekend…
Published 2:04 pm Wednesday, April 21, 2021
StarPhoto/Larry N. Souders Workers from Summers-Taylor spread a load of leveling concrete as the pour footers for a new bridge being build to replace the aging one on Caldwell Street just off US 19E leading to the Roan Mountain Disc Golf course.
StarPhoto/Larry N. Souders There are many things to do inside Roan Mountain State Park, hiking, tennis courts, swimming pool, nature walks and the likes, but Jack Smith was eager to work on his batting skills while Mary Pyatte served up some easy batting practice. Jack’s brother Charlie looks on awaiting he time in the batters box.
StarPhoto/Larry N. Souders Justin Barnette, who has worked at Roan Mountain State Park for 25 years, maneuvers his lawn tractor along a ridge at the top of Strawberry Mountain getting the grounds of the Miller Farmstead, located inside the Park, ready for spring visitors. The Park has opened the road to the top of the mountain every day year round now, except on snow days, so visitors can visit the Farmstead and watch the seasonal coming and goings of Monarch butterflies and tour the grounds. The Miller Farmstead has been is on the National Register of Historic Places list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation since 2014.
StarPhoto/Larry N. Souders Grading and paving work by TDOT on the curve of US 19E at Tiger Creek will continue until the end of the month. There are traffic control lights on both sides of the highway both going to and coming from Roan Mountain and on Tiger Creek also. The highway has been reduced to one lane and will cause delays while traveling on US 19E until the work is completed.
StarPhoto/Larry N. Souders Joe Cosey, owner of Cosey Mobile Spot Welding and Power Washing, gets to work cleaning the pathway around Elizabethton’s Veterans Walk of Honor. Cosey says he had to beg the city for permission to clean the pathways around the Walk of Honor that was dedicated in 2007 and currently has 5,694 names of those who served our country in all branches of the military inscribed on the black brick of the memorial.
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As life goes forward, many working-class people find themselves doing one thing and that is working for the weekend.
From the time that we get out of bed on Monday morning to start a new week until the final click is made on the timeclock bringing the week to an end, people give it their all just so they can do a few things they enjoy (or need to do) at home.
Today’s photo center is for those who go out there and do what needs to be done to get the job done so they can have a little R&R.
Star Photographer Larry N. Souders found some individuals who are putting the hours in to make it to the next weekend and one that seems to have already gotten to the weekend with some camping fun.
