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Our Next SFA Reunion is in Nashville, Tennessee, June 2024. Come join us!

The Nashville Skyline along the Cumberland River.

The 2024 Scruggs Family Association Reunion will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, from Thursday, June 20 to Saturday, June 22. We will meet at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel located at 2025 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. The room rate is $149 per night, and this rate will be honored for three nights before and/or three days after the reunion, as long as rooms are available.

Reservations by Phone: Call our hotel contact, Andra Ruffier, at 615-313-1315.

Online Reservations: Use the following button to access the hotel reservation page for our SFA Reunion. Adjust the default dates on the the webpage to arrive on June 20 for two nights, checking out on June 22, or use the appropriate dates for your extended stay.

Ground Transportation: If you are flying, there are the usual options, taxis, etc. For those of you who will be driving, there is plenty of free parking in the surface lot at the hotel. .

NOTE: The meeting registration form and registration fee are not yet available; they will be developed as meeting plans are finalized. Watch this space!

"What goes on at these Scruggs Family Association Reunions?" you ask. Take a look at the photo album from our last Reunion. We always have have some great times together!

SFA Reunion, Richmond Virginia, September, 2022

By Johnny Vann Scruggs

Our traditional group photo. Photography by Johnny Vann Scruggs, the right-most member in this photo.
We sign in, get our badges, and enjoy our reception banquet. Then we get on with the real business, learning about our membership's research achievements, family Bibles, and maps we use to search for Scruggs kin.

During every reunion gathering, we visit an exhibition where we can learn hands-on about the history of our reunion city. While in Richmond, we visited a historical re-creation of "The Citie of Henricus as of 1611, the third successful English colony of the Original British Invasion." [their words, not mine].

I purchased my t-shirt at the citie gift shop. ("citie" is an archaic form of "city," which appears at the top of the rustic sign.) We toured the historical re-creation of the English fort and a Powhatan indian village. Pocahontas was a princess of the Powhatan tribe, and she was around and about in the citie then. The Powhatan villages surrounded the fort, which was on the bank of the James River. During some free time between reunion events, I spent an afternoon hiking the Buttermilk Trail along the James River. The water level was low, which made for some exciting tubing, or so it appeared to me as I stood on the sandbar enthralled by the view.
We had lots of time to visit one-on-one with cousins new and old, mostly old. We brought out our instruments and put on our tams and dancing shoes. On the last day of our gathering we had a final meeting, our association's biennial business meeting and elections. With our youthful spirits revived, we bade farewell till we meet again at the river, the Cumberland River in Nashville, for our 2024 Scruggs Family Association Reunion. See you there!