World renowned Scottish Folk singer, Jean Redpath, will be just one highlight of this year’s 
39th Annual Rugby Village Festival in Historic Rugby on May 17 and
18. This music and arts festival
will take place Friday Noon – 6 p.m and Saturday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Eastern
Time.
Ms. Redpath will
perform a featured concert on Friday, May 17, at 7 p.m. EDT. She was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and arrived in the United States in the 1960s, spending
time in Greenwich Village with folk revivalists including Bob Dylan. Since,
her first recording in 1962, she has toured extensively throughout the United
States, Canada, and the world. She sings a variety of traditional and contemporary
folk music and has been featured many times on Garrison Keillor’s public
radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.
Ms. Redpath is just
one of seven musical acts featured as part of this year’s festival, including
Four Leaf Peat of Knoxville with its Irish tunes and old-time singer Roy
Harper. The two-day event will also feature a full lineup of musical acts
from the region. A variety of styles
from bluegrass to folk should please all tastes from young to old.
The festival will
include a wide array of local artists and craftsmen as well. Featured demonstrations will include
spinning and gunsmithing. White oak and reed baskets, pottery, jewelry and
dolls will be among the many items available for purchase. Food vendors will
also offer festival visitors treats to fill out their day.
Historic Rugby will
have its 1880s buildings and commissary open to complement the other
activities. The Harrow Road Café will offer visitors looking for a break from
the day’s many activities seated meals, plus ales and wines. Café hours will
be 8:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. Eastern both days.
Admission for the
two-day event is $5 per day. There is an additional $10 ticket for the
featured Jean Redpath concert Friday evening. Call Historic Rugby at
1-888-214-3400 or email rugbylegacy@highland.net or historicrugby@highland.net for group admission, advanced tickets, and
other information.
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Mother’s Day Happenings in Rugby
Sunday, May 12 is
Mother’s Day. There will be a couple of special
things to do in Rugby on that day.
Special Mother’s Day
lunches offered. Both the Harrow Road
Café and Grey Gables have special lunch offerings to help celebrate the
occasion. For details see the calendar
listings below.
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| Stahl holding photo of Eduard Bertz |
In addition to helping
open Rugby’s library, Bertz (1853-1931) went on to write nine books, including
an 1896 novel based on his Rugby experiences and a 1900 book about bicycling
that has been reissued twice, most recently last year.
Stahl, who is librarian
for the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland, has been researching the
life and works of Bertz for nearly 30 years. He last visited Rugby in 1994.
Stahl has published collections of Bertz’s letters in editions of the Gissing Journal and spoken about him at
conferences.
A Message from the Commissary
I am inviting you to donate
to Rugby through the Commissary. While a
lot of inventory at the Commissary is on consignment from local artisans, we also
have to buy a considerable amount of our inventory. For example, the British food items and the
printed books about Rugby all have to be purchased so that we can offer them to
the public. If you help us buy new inventory, any profit from the eventual sale
of those items will in turn help support the ongoing operations of the
Commissary and Historic Rugby.
If you are interested in making
a pledge to help pay for new inventory, there is no need to send checks or
money now. Just let me know how much you
are willing to pledge and I will call you when we have ordered items for
inventory so that you will know what inventory you are helping to
purchase. Then you can send a donation check
to Historic Rugby for the amount pledged.
All contributions are tax deductible.
You can reach me at the
Commissary (Thursday – Sunday) 423-628-5166 or at home 423-628-6090. Thank you - Jessie Gully
Rugby Neighbor
Running for Reelection to Board of
Plateau Electric
May 10 -
Bob Trumbo
Nature Notes
By Harry
Gosnell
I would
like to ask everyone who is a Plateau Electric member in Morgan County to come
out and vote for me for at the Wartburg office on May 18, 2013 between the
hours of 9 am – 4 pm. I have worked hard
for the Morgan County members and will continue to get things done for your
co-op.
Editor's Note: Harry lives close to Rugby on Nydeck Road. Many of you may have
seen or talked to Harry at the Café with his wife Tammy. We would
encourage you to support Harry in the upcoming election. They have been good
friends of Rugby.
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| Sketch showing AlexanderPerrigo House on right |
Alexander-Perrigo House
Sneak Preview
Annie Patterson and Donna
Heffner would like to invite all our Rugby friends and neighbors to an open
house for the newly reconstructed Alexander-Perrigo House and Spirit of Red
Hill on Thursday evening, May 16th,
from 6 pm to 8 pm. We plan to have
Spirit of Red Hill open for business beginning with festival weekend, but
wanted to have Rugbeians be the first to view Rugby’s newest building. We are planning a dedication of the building
in early summer (hopefully June), as there is a possibility that a Perrigo
descendant may be able to join us at that time – more on that later! Meanwhile, join us if at all possible for
light refreshments and a look at the (almost!) finished Alexander-Perrigo
House.
Birthdays
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May 11 -
Annie Patterson and Valerie Donegan
Calendar
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just
barely
Fri. May 10 – History Night at the
Friendly House - 7:30 p.m.
Sat. May 11 – Morgan County Rabies
Clinic at Brooks Store – 2:30 p.m. – Rabies vaccination for cats and dogs three
months or older. $10
Sun. May 12 – Mother’s Day at Harrow
Road Café –Two lunch specials – crab stuffed flounder or filet mignon, in
addition to regular menu items. Mother’s
Day special dessert - three layer chocolate mountain cake. Special extended hours – open until 7 pm.
Sun. May 12 - Grey Gables Bed and Breakfast Mother's Day Lunch. Seating 12:30 and 2:30
Eastern Time. $12.50 Adults $6.25 Children Under 12.
Sun. May 12 – Special Presentation
about Eduard Bertz at the Rugby Visitor Centre Theater - 4 p.m.
Fri. and Sat. May 17 and 18 – 39th Annual
Rugby Village Festival. The headliner entertainment on Friday night will be
Scottish folk singer Jean Redpath, who has made several appearances on NPR’s
“Prairie Home Companion” show.
Sat. June 1 – Lantern Tour on Stage
Sun. June 9 – Appalachian Writers
Series welcomes Sallie Bissell – 3 p.m.
Sat. June 15 – Antique Street Fair –
enjoy browsing an incredible array of antiques and vintage wares in Rugby
June 29 – Rugby Independence Day picnic will be the Saturday before July 4
at John and Kathy Hicks’ house.
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| Linda Konig |
Red Bats
Capistrano, California may have its swallows that return every
spring, but we have RED BATS that return!
For some good photos of them, try www.arkive.org/eastern-red-bat/lasiurus-borealis/photos.html. I've just learned this past week about our
migrating Eastern Red Bats which are found in every county in Tennessee. They do not hibernate in caves for the
winter; nor do they congregate in buildings.
Instead they fly south for the winter!
It's thought that most of them follow the same routes south as migrating
birds, and they migrate in flocks of up to several hundred at a time. Males and females travel separately, mostly
at night. On the other hand, an article
in the current issue of The Tennessee
Conservationist, “The Living Dead and
the Creatures That Must Have Them,” mentions that sometimes Eastern Red Bats
are found sleeping the winter away under leaf litter in the woods.
There isn't space in this article to tell all the fascinating
facts I've learned about these Red Bats, but they differ from our other bats in
several ways. For one thing, the usual bats
we've heard about can only give birth to one baby bat (called a pup) at a time,
whereas the female Red Bat can give birth to several. However, since she just has 4 teats, she can
feed only 4. The Red Bats aren't
affected by the disease that's killing so many of our cave-roosting bats, and
they're just as good at eating night-flying insects.
Another way in which they differ from most bats is that they are
generally solitary. In summer, they
roost singly in trees, except for the mother bat with her pups. They're well camouflaged in the trees,
hanging from a leaf stem or a twig by one foot, wrapped in their wings which
are used like a blanket. The male is
redder than the female, but both appear to be just a dead leaf hanging among
the green ones. If there's a breeze, the
bat will sway just like the leaves!
Since they generally hang from the lower branches of trees, sleeping
away most of the daylight hours, I plan to try to see them this summer by
simply looking up into trees while walking under them. They like trees that are
near the edges of pastures or other openings.
Another clue to their whereabouts is that they like to hang from limbs
on the south side of trees.
I'm reasonably certain that we've all seen these Red Bats
before. They're the only bat in the U.S.
that will fly in daylight. They usually
come out before dark and start flying about, but it's hard to tell their color
when they're silhouetted against the sky as the sun is lowering. I'm sure I've seen them flying over my yard
and at Newbury pond as they swoop down to skim the surface. Eastern Red Bats lower their jaw as they
glide over the water, scooping up one drop.
Then they fly over again and get another drop, repeating this process
until they've had enough.
Editor’s Note: Jessie Gully reported that she recently had a
bat visit her in her home (not sure if it was a red bat or not). It came in through the open fireplace
flue. Boyd Mitchell came to her
rescue. She said he successfully
relocated the bat to his bat box!
This Week’s Editor: Rick Murphy
