![]() “But, you know, we really can’t do it honestly.” “I think people would say we’d like to do this again, this is like the best fundraiser we’ve ever had,” he says. ![]() But according to Kevin Thornton, that’s a very bad idea. ![]() ![]() These days, every once in awhile someone will float the idea of bringing the tour back. “I think the people with the houses decided they’d had enough of people coming through their houses and walking through everything,” Bernie says. (“And that too was a big seller,” Joan says.) There was a third tour in 1997, also very popular. That year they also sold a little cookbook with photos of the homes on the tour and old family recipes. It was such a success that Brandon held one again in 1996. The first tour was in the summer of 1995. We only charged $5 for the tickets, and I think we could have charged $25, and we would have still sold as many.” “There were so many people from out of state that had come. “The first year, we sold out,” Joan says. “We made $600 or $700 on it for a Chamber event, which was a lot of money.” ![]() “The various houses that had the rooms opened up their houses, let people go in their basements, their attics, their sheds and their shanties. “And it was a huge success,” says Bernie Carr, the current head of Brandon’s Chamber of Commerce. 'Brave Little State' is VPR's people-powered journalism podcast. ![]()
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