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| Newbury House Bed and Breakfast in the snow last week. On the right are the red blooms of the flowering quince covered in snow. The snow is now gone and spring is very much in evidence. |
This Week in Rugby
Friday, April 5 – Music at the Cafe
3-D
Dulcimers - This well
regarded Fentress County group of three dulcimer-playing women is returning to
the Café on Friday evening.
Saturday, April 6 – Community Potluck - 7 p.m. Eastern/ 6
Central at the Friendly House fellowship hall behind Christ Church
Welcome Zach!
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Historic Rugby's new Executive Director Zach Langley on the right with Treasurer Mike Green at the Café last week. Zach started his new position last week and has been busy learning about all the processes for dealing with Historic Rugby's many activities. It has been good to see Zach riding back and forth on his bicycle to his temporary residence at Pioneer Cottage. Also, welcome to Zach's father, Barry, who is in town for a couple of weeks. |
Painted Rooster to Reopen
Kelley McCauley and Gerald Hanwright were seen doing some work at the
shop across from the Café recently. Kelley said she is planning to reopen The Painted Rooster on Friday, April
12, just in time for Rugby’s Quilt Event.
She said the shop will feature crafts from local folks.
Carman Roberson and Lisa Donegan did a great job of preparing the building
for use as a shop last fall, so it is good to see that someone is able to continue
using it. Kelley wants to keep the name of the shop, as it is so appropriate
for those of us who remember the chickens that Joe Gibson used to keep in the
yard when he lived there.
Post Office Reopens at Commissary
Thursday through Saturday
The Rugby Post Office has recently returned to the Commissary. Its hours
are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
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| Kathy Hicks at Bed Turning 2011 |
Friday
and Saturday, April 12 and 13
Rugby’s first quilt exhibit held two years ago received
rave reviews from folks who enjoyed seeing the old and new quilts displayed
throughout the historic village. Due to
popular demand the Rugby Quilters Guild has assembled a new exhibit for Friday
and Saturday, April 12 and 13.
Honoring and preserving the art and heritage of quilting,
past and present, 2013 Rugby Quilts: Come
Full Circle is hosted by the Rugby Quilters’ Guild and Historic Rugby. The
event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13.
Admission to the site and show is $10 for both days. (For the play alone, $5.)
In addition to the extensive quilt displays there will be
vendors offering quilting supplies, optional quilt appraisals by certified
appraiser Shari Pierce, and bed turnings in the Rebecca Johnson Theater.
Scissor and knife sharpening will be available on Saturday.
An
original quilt play, Full Circle, written and produced
by local and area residents, will be premiered at no additional cost for event
participants on Friday evening at 7 p.m. and again on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.
For
additional information concerning the quilt exhibit, email rugbyquilters@gmail.com . All other
information requests, including lodging reservations, should be directed to Amy
Barnes at Historic Rugby, (888) 214-3400, or (423) 628-2441, or rugbylegacy@highland.net .
Other
Related Activities.
Tour
of Morgan County Quilt Trail. There will also be a tour
of the Morgan County Heritage Trail (barn-side mounted quilts) that departs
from the Morgan County Visitor Center in Wartburg at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April
13. The fee of $15 covers transportation plus full admission to the the Rugby Quilt
Event. Contact Anna Amonett at (423) 346-3833 for reservations. Space is
limited.
Walk for a Cause
The
Nancy Swain Watters Memorial Walk –
JoNell Hester wants to
remind Rugby folks of the benefit walk (five miles) scheduled Friday, April 19 in
Oneida to help support education programs on child sexual abuse, domestic
violence, professional training, and services for children seen at the
Children’s Center of the Cumberlands as well as clients of the Scott County
Women’s Shelter. She would like to get
several people from Rugby to help support this important cause. If anybody
would like to join JoNell, let her know at jonell@deeceelabs.com .
For additional
information about the walk and an entry form, email Debbie White at whited1@highland.net
Farm Fresh Eggs
Jodye Weiler wants everyone to know she has farm fresh brown eggs
for sale. $1.50/dz. Contact Jodye
at 423-628-5228
Grave Marker Program
Rugby "History Night
Outing" visitors to Monticello, Kentucky, on Saturday learned of a program
there that could benefit Rugby's Laurel Dale Cemetery.
It provides inexpensive but
attractive grave markers made of granite and engraved with the loved one's
name and birth/death dates all for just $60!
The program was intended
largely for Wayne County, KY, but markers can be ordered and picked up for installation
elsewhere, like here in Rugby. It originated with the Wayne County Museum, a
very interesting local history project there that is well worth a visit. It's
open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10-4 Eastern.
Many of Laurel Dale's
graves have been unmarked over the years, or marked with less-lasting items
such as painted concrete slabs. This would provide an affordable solution for
some families. Monticello is only about an hour or so away, north of Jamestown
into Kentucky. Details of the program are on this website: http://harlanogleky.tripod.com/waynecountymuseum/id27.html
(if you get a pop-up, just X it out and continue.)
Critter
Feedback
Last week
we did an article called “Critter Sightings in Rugby” about four different
sightings of wild animals locally – wild pigs, a yellow-bellied weasel, a
bobcat and a beaver. We got a couple of responses
to the article. It is good to hear from
our readers.
“Also in
the corner of our porch inside ceiling is a third birthing nursery being built
over the previous two seasons’ ones. We’ll soon have a bird condo on the rise.
So looking forward to being critter-grandparents again. The empty nest syndrome
was getting to us!”
Sue Neff, Fentress
County- “CRITTERS.
A sublime characterization, eh?”
“I Read Nature Wars (the book mentioned in the Rugby Week article)
March 6th. The chapter on bears skipped all around the events here in
1999-2000. Here is my comment on this Facebook
page....so far no reply. I posted jogs of coverage of our story in James
Gary Shelton's book titled “Bear Attacks, Myth and Reality II.”
‘I jumped at the chance to read the
Chapter on bears when I saw your book. After reading it, I was totally
disappointed. You researched the book so well but totally missed the drama
playing out in Tennessee since the mid-nineties. Courthouse battles, NPS lies,
human deaths in the Great Smokeys and Cherokee National Forest in 2000 and 2006
respectively. But the main affront to us is we here on the Cumberland Plateau
did not move into bear country, the NPS relocated bears here where there we none
for 100 yrs. We would have liked to keep it that way so our kids can play in
the woods and fish in the streams without fear of a bear attack. Read what
happened when we tried to stop them in the attached jpgs. I am available to
discuss further if you are interested in the rest of the story.’
“One question for you, Rick. Will you walk deep in our BSF woods ALONE as bears emerge and become active and do this without worry? And when you hear the crack of a branch behind you do you turn and look? Our experiences in the woods have been forever changed now that we must deal with an ever increasing bear population... thanks to our unelected government bureaucrats!
“Nice article in the Rugby news... just
wish it were more balanced. Hogs are a huge problem for farmers.”
Birthdays
April 2 - Carman Roberson
April 3 - Luke Martin
April 4 - Tom Howell and Judy Newport
April 5 - Anna Joyce Walton Herr
April 6 - Lavonne Gibbs and Cynthia
Johnson
April 7 - Gerald Hanwright
Calendar
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just barely
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just barely
Sat. April 6 – Community Potluck, 7 p.m. Eastern/ 6
Central.
Fri. and Sat. April 12 and 13
– Rugby Quilt Exhibit and quilt play premier
Fri. April 19 - The Nancy Swain Watters Memorial Walk -- a
benefit walk (five miles) is scheduled in Oneida to help support education
programs on child sexual abuse, domestic violence, professional training, and
services for children seen at the Children’s Center of the Cumberlands as well
as clients of the Scott County Women’s Shelter.
We would like to get several people from Rugby to help support this
important cause. For additional information and an entry form, email Debbie
White at whited1@highland.net
Fri. April 19 - History Night Dinner - call Grey Gables for reservations, 423-628-5252
Sat. April 20 - 7 p.m. Eastern time for readings and book signing with author Wiley Cash
June 29 – Rugby Independence Day picnic will be the Saturday before July 4 at John and Kathy Hicks’ house.
Fri. April 19 - History Night Dinner - call Grey Gables for reservations, 423-628-5252
Sat. April 20 - 7 p.m. Eastern time for readings and book signing with author Wiley Cash
June 29 – Rugby Independence Day picnic will be the Saturday before July 4 at John and Kathy Hicks’ house.
Nature Notes
By Linda Konig
There are several other
members of the weasel family in America, though. I'm sure we have lots of the
Least Weasels (Mustela nivalis) around Rugby. They're the most common weasels
in Tennessee. Since they're nocturnal, they aren't seen by humans very often. However,
I was incredibly lucky some years ago to see what may have been one in broad
daylight. I was down by the river near the Gents' Swimming Hole one morning,
sitting quite still, observing nature, writing in my notebook, and probably
daydreaming a lot. Suddenly, about 5 feet away, a sleek tiny brown-haired
creature zipped by and uphill slightly to disappear in a hole between
rocks. It happened so quickly there
wasn't any time to react. I wasn't sure
what it was then, but knew it must be something in the same family as minks. Now I know that it could have been a Least Weasel, if
not a river otter.
Least Weasels are found
worldwide, and rocky forested slopes in Appalachia are ideal for them. They eat a wide variety of prey including
frogs, lizards, birds and their eggs, mice, voles, and just about anything smaller
than they are. They're the world's smallest carnivore and just might be the
fiercest. Their metabolism is so high that they must eat 40% of their body
weight each day. Aren't you glad you're too big for them? Their hearing is
acute, especially in the higher ranges. This helps them tremendously when it
comes to hunting mice, easily hearing their high-pitched squeaks. They keep
several dens in their home range, and so I guess he or she had simply decided
to switch dens that morning. For a good
look at one (in case you're not lucky enough to see one in the wild), try www.extension.iastate.edu/wildlife/CommonQuestions/LeastWeasel.htm
This Week’s Editors:
Rick Murphy and George Zepp
