Let me be the first to say "how the hell can you say that Tennessee is on the east coast???"
From my home province; New Brunswick, Canada which borders on Maine, USA, it's a twenty four hour/2,300 km drive to this event. I won't be going and I doubt anybody else from Atlantic Canada is going either.
Some buddy's of mine are going to the Maine Mountain Jeep Jamboree in Bethel, Maine in early October. Even that would be an eight hour drive for me. Unfortunately at the end of the summer I just don't have any money left for anymore Jamboree's.