Historic Rugby Photos Revealed
Several historic Rugby photos were donated this week to the Historic Rugby Archives by Steve Logan. The photos were Steve's grandmother's from the period when she taught school here in 1917-18. She lived at Uffington House that year, the house that was then home of Nelly and Charles Brooks (and originally the residence of founder Thomas Hughes' mother, Margaret Hughes).
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Here's what Steve’s grandmother, Alleen Phelps (later Gardner, of Nashville) wrote on the back of this snowy Uffington House photo about her year as the teacher in Rugby's one-room school:
"Thomas Hughes... a dreamer, colonized Rugby, Tenn., and the place is beautiful with English houses, gardens and mountain shrubs. 'Uffington,' now the home of Mrs. C.C. Brooks, contains much that was formerly the Hughes'. This was my home while in Rugby and here I spent five very happy months. Someday I want to return to this 'Deserted Village' in the 'Switzerland of America' to roam in the woods, wander in a dusty library, and see my 'Dearest Lady Nell,' Mrs. C.C.B."
"On the big rock in the middle of Clear Fork River: Elie and Neely Hammond, Ernst [Brooks] and Edith, Harold and his Mama. Rugby, 1917"
"At the Swinging Bridge: Harold, his Mama, Edith Hammond, Neely Hammond, Ernst and Elie Hamm., Rugby, 1917."
Friday, Jan. 20 – Music at the Café –Butch and Doug, 6:30 - 8:30 EST
Saturday, Jan. 21 – Commissary Craft Demonstration – Bill Henry carving
Saturday, Jan. 21 – Historic Rugby Board Meeting – 1 p.m. at Community Building
Sunday, Jan. 22 – Commissary Craft Demonstration – Mara Trumbo - Painting
Next Book Club Scheduled
The Tiger
The next book club has been scheduled for Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 Central at the home of Kit and Candy Howes. The book the group will be reading is The Tiger, a true story of vengeance and survival by John Vaillant.
We are going to start providing information about properties that are for sale in Rugby –if the seller provides us with information.
This week we are highlighting the Beacon Hill home of Don Barkman which is for sale for $217,712. The link below to Infotube gets you tons of info about the house. Here are also two YouTube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtS_nxhyvUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp5p-tepIrs
If you have property for sale in Rugby and would like to be mentioned please email us.
With 150 Photos
Historic Rugby’s popular Laurel Dale Cemetery Lantern Tour goes on the stage in a new multi-media version at the Rebecca Johnson Theatre at Rugby on Saturday, January 28, at 4 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Central).
Costumed players from a Rugby resident cast will be the presenters. The words will be largely the characters’ own, thanks to Historic Rugby's archives. All of them rest in Rugby’s Laurel Dale Cemetery.
Earlier versions of the Lantern Tour began in 2010, but all were on the grounds of the cemetery where audience numbers had to be limited. This time the 100-seat Rebecca Johnson Theatre at Historic Rugby’s Visitor Centre will bring a different dimension to this real-life drama.Tickets are available at the door for $15, or $7 for students grades K-12. The Harrow Road Café will be open until 9 p.m. for dining before or after the show.
Grey Gables Announces Winter Events
Grey Gables Bed and Breakfast will be busy this winter. Linda Jones sent the following event information which I am adding to the calendar. CATFISH DINNER: Saturday January 28. Beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern. Entertainment $12.00 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Call Linda or Tiffany for reservations 423-628-5252
AFTERNOON TEA: Tuesday February 7 at 1 p.m Easter, $10 per person, plus tax and gratuity. For Reservations: 423-628-5252
VALENTINE DINNER: Saturday February 11. Dinner with entertainment. $18.50 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations Required: 423-628-5252
BIRTHDAYS
Jan. 18 - Deanna Oliver
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just barely.
Friday, Jan. 20 – Music at the Café – 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern - Butch and Doug
Saturday, Jan. 21 – Commissary Craft Demonstration – Bill Henry carving
Saturday, Jan. 21 – Historic Rugby Board Meeting – 1 p.m. at the Community Building
Friday, Jan. 27 – Music at the Café – 6:30 p.m. - Robin Branstetter and the girls
Saturday, Jan. 28 – Commissary Craft Demonstration – Sue Duncan spinning with Angora bunnies
Saturday, Jan. 28 – Lantern Tour Onstage – 4 p.m. Eastern at the Visitor Centre Theatre. Adult admission $15 at the door. K-12 students, $7.
Saturday, Jan. 28 – Catfish Dinner at Grey Gables - Beginning at 6 p.m Eastern. Entertainment $12.00 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Call Linda or Tiffany for reservations 423-628-5252
Sunday, Jan. 29 – Commissary Artist Demonstration - Mara Trumbo-Painting
Tuesday, Feb. 7 – Afternoon Tea at Grey Gables - 1 p.m. Eastern, $10 per person, plus tax and gratuity. For Reservations: 423-628-5252
Saturday, Feb. 11 – Soup Hike – Hike the beautiful Thomas Hughes trail along the White Oak. This is a relatively good trail, but there are a few fairly steep areas and a few short areas that are a little rocky. Meet at the Café at 10 a.m. Eastern. Soup afterward at the Harrow Road Café.
Saturday, Feb.11 – Valentine Dinner at the Harrow Road Café. – Four-course dinner and special gift. Lodging packages available for Historic Newbury House B&B and Cottages
Saturday Feb. 11 – Valentine Dinner at Grey Gables with entertainment. $18.50 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations Required: 423-628-5252
Saturday, Feb. 25 – Book Club at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 Central at the home of Kit and Candy Howes. The book the group will be reading is The Tiger, a true story of vengeance and survival by John Vaillant
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Quilters’ Group - Wednesdays and Saturdays, 2–4 p.m. Eastern, at the Friendly House behind Christ Church
Rugby Yoga – Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m. Eastern, at the Friendly House.
Christ Church Episcopal -- Sunday morning services, 11:00 Eastern year round; all are welcome.
Historic Rugby Winter Hours
Harrow Road Café open every day except Wednesdays. Sundays through Thursdays - 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. EST. Friday and Saturday hours include dinner seatings, 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST.
Visitor Centre and Commissary General Store - Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays through Thursdays - weekday and weekend group tours can be arranged with advance reservation. Post Office in the Commissary is closed until March
Lodging Facilities are available year-round.
NATURE NOTES
Secret Goings-On
By Linda Konig
It's easy to think Mother Nature is resting on her laurels in January, taking a well-deserved rest. T'aint so. True she isn't working full steam, but she's still mighty active.
A lot of what's going on, however, is hidden from our eyes. I've recently learned a lot more about earwigs, thanks in large part to a new book I got for Christmas called National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America. Wow! I'd heard and read a little bit about earwigs before, but with this book I've learned what these useful little ground insects with the evil-looking pincers are up to at this time of year. We probably have about four kinds of earwigs around here. They're nocturnal creatures, and some will fly to lights at night in summer.
Yes, winter is one of their busiest times. Late fall is when a pair of male and female earwigs set up housekeeping in a chamber she's made in the soil. About this time of year, however, she either kicks him out or he leaves on his own, and she starts to lay her eggs. A lot of what's going on, however, is hidden from our eyes. I've recently learned a lot more about earwigs, thanks in large part to a new book I got for Christmas called National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America. Wow! I'd heard and read a little bit about earwigs before, but with this book I've learned what these useful little ground insects with the evil-looking pincers are up to at this time of year. We probably have about four kinds of earwigs around here. They're nocturnal creatures, and some will fly to lights at night in summer.
Entomologists have marveled at the tender loving care some kinds of earwig females give their eggs and new-born hatchlings. First she gathers them up if they get separated during the laying. Then she refuses to leave her eggs, keeping them warm with her body and guarding them from other adult earwigs that might eat them. Meanwhile she turns them over periodically, licking them to moisten them and to clean any fungus that might start to grow on the eggs. She may even help them to hatch. Then they live with the mother until about July, and while they're still living at home, she feeds them with regurgitated food. If she dies, they eat her, the final sacrifice.
To see some really neat photos of a female earwig with her eggs in a rounded nest and a later photo of that same earwig with some newly-hatched young, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwig . The site also has more information on earwigs.
About those vicious-looking pincers: they're mighty handy since they're used for grooming, defense, courtship, and to help fold their hind wings underneath a sort of shield on their backs. Why are they called earwigs? Because people used to mistakenly believe that earwigs liked to crawl inside sleeping people's ears at night and bore inside their brains. I'm not kidding! Well, that could be a handy explanation as to why some people act the way they do, but, no, it just isn't so.
This Week’s Editors: Rick Murphy and George Zepp
