BRISTOL, Va. — A new exhibit is headed to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Virginia. The special exhibit is called "It’ll Tickle Yore Innards!”: A (Hillbilly) History of Mountain Dew."
The exhibit is set to open Saturday, February 26, and comes from the East Tennessee Historical Society.
Museum staff said local connections to the soft drink, made it an easy choice to bring the exhibit to Bristol.
Museum Curator René Rodgers said, "Mountain Dew grew up in the local and regional area. Connections to Marion, Virginia, Johnson City, Tennessee, and Knoxville. That local connection, but also it digs into the hillbilly stereotype that we talk about upstairs in the permanent exhibits. Definitely, you see in early commercial country music."
The exhibit will be on display at the museum from Saturday, February 26 through August 7.