Hi friend, and welcome to Spark, Tennessee. I’m Vern Jarvis and I’ll be showing you around today. Let’s start our walk at the south end of Market Street with the Curly Q beauty shop. Most of the ladies in Spark stop in for a wash and set every week. Now that Queenie has hired Evangeline, there can be two chairs’ worth of what I call visiting and others might call gossiping going on. Next door is my shop, Jarvis Emporium. It’s a this ‘n that shop where you can pick up what you need without having to make the hour-long drive into Nashville. Over there is Strickland’s Drugstore, run by Shorty Strickland. He’s got the usual medications and tonics, but he has a great collection of greeting cards. He thinks he’s pretty funny, so if you want a birthday card with the hind end of a donkey on it, or a get-well-soon card with a person wrapped up like a mummy, that’s where you should go. Shorty’s got a heart of gold though, and will run a prescription out to your house if you’re too sick to come in. That’s the Tennessee Farmers Bank on the corner, and now we’re…

