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Morristown Magazine 5 hidden from the community. It wasn’t until the Morristown-Hamblen Lions Club held its 2021 carnival fundraiser that the Return of the King became a possi- bility. “When we held our carnival fundraiser in 2021, it did so well that we decided to put some money into the community,” said Lisa Grooms, the club’s secretary. “The original plan was to put a lion’s bench somewhere in the community and while searching online Johnny Denton our president saw the lion fountain and began to investigate the whe- reabouts of the lion.” “I was looking at those and trying to get pri- ces,” he said. “On the internet, the one that had a bench had the lion fountain popped up. Talk about flash from the way back. I drank out of this thing as a kid and forgot about it until I saw that.” Denton wondered what had happened to the fountain. He asked Secretary Lisa Grooms first. “She said that she thought it was in Jeffer- son City,” Denton said. ‘I drank out of this thing as a kid and forgot about it until I saw that.’