Currently, the Church owns the land, but it is simply a large open field and the website warns that during seasons of heavy rain, the site is often flooded and the roads impassable. So yeah, I drove through BFE (with signage to prove it).
I did also see this license plate, which kind of made me feel like I was still in redneck Texas.
Also unrelated to Hawn's Mill, but very important for the BFE portion of the day, I listened to the radio station non-stop and I would almost move to Independence just for it.
It was like the late 80s/early 90s section of iPod. I loved it.
And finally, I ate dinner at this BBQ place by my hotel, and I actually liked it better than Arthur Bryant's. I got the burnt ends sandwich and I loved that they'd chopped it all up so it wasn't a choking hazard. I asked them to mix a little bbq sauce into the sandwich, but also to give me a dish on the side. That way I could dip each bite into the sauce, which meant I could eat it without the mess.
It came with cheesy corn, which, as it turned out...was in the same boat as weird bbq spaghetti in Memphis - not actually terrible, but also not good.
