— In what local officials are calling “the most patriotic act since we invented country music,” a grassroots movement of Tennessee residents is demanding that the portion of Kentucky Lake touching Tennessee shores be renamed “Little Jimmy Dickens Lake” in honor of the diminutive country music legend.
The campaign, spearheaded by the newly formed “Tennessee Waters for Tennessee Heroes (TWTH)” coalition, argues that it’s “downright un-American” for Tennessee residents to have to say they’re visiting “Kentucky Lake” when they’re clearly standing on Tennessee soil.
“Every time I tell my grandkids we’re going fishing on Kentucky Lake, a little part of my Tennessee soul dies,” said Boudleaux “B-Bo” Johnson, 67, founder of the movement and owner of Tater’s Bait & Tackle. “Little Jimmy Dickens was barely five feet tall, but he had more Tennessee pride in his pinky finger than most folks have in their whole body. That lake water needs a proper Tennessee name.”…