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| Opening this weekend: The Gathering Place at Rugby! Welcome shopkeepers Loretta Luckado & Dianna Stephens |
The first annual Antique Street Fair will be held
at Rugby this Saturday. Event hours are10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Admission and parking is free.
Antique booths will line the main street and lanes
of the 1880s National Register historic site, selling 18th to mid-20th century
furniture, china and ceramics, glassware, books, tools, crocks, old toys,
linens and quilts, graphics, bottles, primitives and much more. Some booths
will include regional handcrafts.
Five antique, art and craft shops will be open all
day, including the Rugby Commissary, Spirit of Red Hill Nature Art and
Oddiments, Carriage House Gallery, Painted Rooster and The Gathering Place at
Rugby.
Demonstrations on the antique Chandler-Price
letterpress will be provided in the restored 1880s Rugby Printing Works.
Spinner and needlework artist Mary Curren will also be demonstrating on her
vintage Ashford wheel.
Visitors will also find an antique oil lamp
exhibit on the verandah of 1881 Virgo House, one of Rugby’s many restored
original buildings.
Regional musical duo, Butch and Doug, will play
period Appalachian favorites on several verandahs around the village center.
Delicious meals, desserts and fine beverages will
be available at the Harrow Road Cafe, built in the 1980s to conform to Rugby’s
early architecture.
Visit four historic buildings, including the
incredibly preserved 1882 Thomas Hughes Public Library, and view the national
award-winning Rugby history film, The
Power of a Dream, for an admission fee at the Historic Rugby Visitor
Centre.
For more event information call 423-628-6569 or
888-214-3400. Email cheryl1117@gmail.com or historicrugby@highland.net
Café
Open for Breakfast This Morning
Amy Barnes wants everyone to know that the Café is
open for breakfast this morning (Monday, the 10th) at 8:30 a.m. The next
breakfasts after that will be the regular Friday, Saturday, Sunday ones -- same
time.
Local
Author to Speak at History Night
Janice Matthews Smith, author of “Looking Back, Old Louvaine and Zenith in East Jamestown, Tennessee,” will be
the speaker at History Night this Friday, June 14. This book is full of photos
and stories of life in these two mining camps as seen through the eyes of a child.
Janice and Teresa Coker's grandparents, the Tays, ran a store/boarding house,
first in Louvaine and later at Zenith. Both of these coal mining communities
are gone now and a way of life with them. TAKE NOTE: The time for the meeting
will be 8 p.m. Eastern this week because Janice will have to come from Central
Time after working that day at the Jamestown hospital. The place, as usual,
will be the Friendly House behind Christ Church. See you there! -- Linda Konig
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| William Crabtree mowing cemetery |
Donations Needed for Cemetery
Upkeep
A few weeks ago we ran an appeal to help with
maintenance of Laurel Dale Cemetery. We
ran into the caretakers, Hattie (Sally) Carey and her son William Crabtree Saturday
while the family was faithfully mowing and weed-eating the cemetery. Watching them work reminded us of how much
labor it is, since the cemetery is actually pretty large and there are
obviously a lot of graves and trees to trim around. They provide all the
equipment, manpower and gasoline, not to mention a great deal of time.
Hattie mentioned that the only contribution they
have received lately for cemetery upkeep was $60 from the donation jar at the recent
cemetery tour. So we are reminding everyone again, hoping that local folks and
maybe local churches too can help with donations. Hattie did say that the
cemetery has a separate checking account and that donation checks can be made
out to “Laurel Dale Cemetery.”
If you can help, please send contributions
to: Hattie Carey, 4928 Mount Helen Rd., Allardt, TN 38504
Welcome New Neighbors!
We can all welcome Brandon and Tara Hall (plus the kids, Ewan and
Valkyrie) to Rugby. They moved this week into the Neary home (Springburn) for a
six-month residency. They are natives of Canada, but arrived here from Wisconsin.
Brandon is seeking employment as an engineer in one of the region’s auto
industry facilities.
Thanks
from Jane and Steve
Jane and Steve Logan would like to thank the many
Rugby community members and
Historic Rugby Board members who included Jane's
brother, Stuart, on their prayer lists. He passed peacefully on June 3
surrounded by family. We are so very appreciative of all the support and
kindness you have showed us during this difficult time!
Thank you - Jane and Steve Logan
Birthdays
June 17 - Lloyd Stokes
Calendar
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| A group of law enforcement vehicle enthusiasts visited Rugby recently! |
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just
barely
Fri. June 14 – History Night – 8 p.m.
Eastern at the Friendly House
Sat. June 15 – Antique
Street Fair – Enjoy browsing an incredible array of antiques and vintage
wares in Rugby. This is a new event for Historic Rugby, organized by Cheryl
Hodgkins.
Sun. June 23 – Breakfast
for Friends of Annette Caldwell at Grey Gables – 8:30 a.m.
A time for fellowship, sharing memories and giving voice to the knowing of
a loving friend and gracious lady. A Memorial Service will be held at
Christ Church, Episcopal at 11 a.m. EDT. Please respond to Linda Jones if you can
attend: 423-628-5252
Sun. June 23 – Historic Rugby Annual Membership Meeting – followed by a reception on the Visitor Centre porch for new Executive Director Zach Langley. Board meeting following reception.
Sat. June 29 – Rugby
Independence Day picnic will be the Saturday before July 4 at John
and Kathy Hicks’ house
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Sat. July 13 – Antique
Car Show 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern/8-2 Central. Spectators have free
admission. Car registration is $10 per car. A wide variety of antique cars,
plus craft vendors, shopping at the Shops of Rugby and food at the Harrow Road
Café.
Nature Notes
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| Queen Linda |
Lace for a Queen
By Linda Konig
Let's hear it for the lowly but lovely Queen Anne's Lace! It’s
beginning to appear again in the meadows and along the roadsides. If it was rare or hard to grow, it would be
appreciated more and hybridized to the nth degree to sell in many colors, in
various shapes, sizes, and heights. Instead we take it for granted. I did
discover though, years ago, that it’s always a wonderful addition to all sorts
of bouquets from formal to picnic to innocent children's pickings held out in
grimy paws.
I've been reading more about the plant recently, and I learned, to
my surprise, that it’s supposed to help tomato plants if grown nearby! Who
knew? Then I recalled that my Daddy always grew the best tasting tomatoes in
the whole neighborhood. We also had empty lots that were filled with Queen
Anne's Lace on two sides of the garden. H-m-m.
You probably already know that carrots were developed centuries
ago from the roots of the lowly Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota). If you sniff
the root, you can smell the carrot smell. Another practical use of Queen Anne's
Lace, according to the Internet, has been as a contraceptive! I’m not sure this was always effective, so
don't try it at home!
The flowers usually remind me of crocheted doilies. Another thing they remind people of, after
the bloom has begun to go to seed and cup up, is a bird's nest. Sometimes they're
called Bird's Nest Plant. However, when they're at that stage, with their
starry delicate-shaped leaflets spreading out from the bottom of the goblet's
bowl, they look to me like a fanciful goblet, and I imagine them as a medieval
goblet that might have been used by a faeirie queen in a Shakespeare play.
Please, please go to www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr05/bjwildcarrot.html
. Be sure to scroll all the way to
the end of the site. These are the most beautiful photos I've ever seen. They
brought tears to my eyes. I plan to go out tomorrow to search for some early
Queen Anne's Lace and this time, to REALLY SEE them, perhaps for the first
time.
This
Week’s Editors: Rick Murphy and George Zepp
