I live to serve, as you know. Even odder than my generosity (rare) or limited buying (exceptionally rare), was one occurrence for which I will never forget this show as long as I live. Some people were expanding a Civil War museum and came to the show. They came to our table and bought every projectile we had (about 35) and some other neat pieces RelicRunner had out too, then went to forumite Trader Sean's table next to ours and asked me about all his shells. He was off grab assing with Howard or something, so I called him and said, "get here immediately," nothing else. I think he thought one of us had had a clutcher as he came running, but it was good and he sold all but one of his shells too.
I like Nashville, but I have to say the locals there panic over the weather and the News was constantly telling us to head for the storm cellars because ice storms were going to make life miserable. I did not see one bit of precipitation on my 7 hour drive home and my car was ice free Saturday am, but I got spooked and blew off a very nice dinner I had planned to go to downtown Friday night and instead ate in the hotel which was not so great.
I did get a nice original water bucket for my cannon, over 300 canister balls for projects, and picked up close to 20 shells that Carl had drilled or cleaned for me. He did a fabulous job.
One forum member could not get there on account of ice storms in Texas, but from the forum we saw MBfromPB, RJ, Sean, RelicRunner, John Walsh, Ronnie, Jack Melton, KP, Carl, me, Jon Patterson, Dave the Plumber, Steve Sylvia, Dave Gotter, and Steve Phillips. There may have been others as well that I can't recall from the whirlwind. As usual the comraderie was nice and we always love the Franklin Show.