There is a town near Henderson called Finger. We drove there this afternoon. Not much to it. There’s the “Finger Christian Fellowship” and “First Baptist Church at Finger, TN” and of course “Finger Church of Christ.” I took a picture of it. I can imagine the town leaders about 150 years ago. “Well, we have this community here. What should we call it?” “How about “Finger” ?” And so the town’s name stuck. Or it could have been the finger part of a river or creek something.
Jackson was interesting too. We stopped by Union University to check things out. Seems very sparse. And there’s one big building where all of the classes appear to take place. Wow this campus is small. I later found out that this is not the original campus. They moved from downtown Jackson in 1975 to the bypass area. Which brings to mind, what happened to the old Union campus? Did they sell it off piece by peace, or did they dismantle it (ala “Little House on the Praire”? I’d like to find out. Surely not much is left as it happened almost 30 years ago. Unless another university moved in on the territory.
There is a building on Union’s campus called “Hyran Barefoot Student Union Building.” Which apparently is the Union Student Union Building, home of the Department of Redundancy Department.