(Those of us who grew up in the South — and for whom a trip to frickin’ Chattanooga was the family vacation par excellence — know what I’m talking about. That place was a damned freak show. Of course it still paled in comparison to the freak show another two hours up I-75, Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg.)

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