Photo by George Zepp
Look for more concerts this fall.
TRAIL WORK
Bob Hemminger was in town for a few days so there were several sessions of trail maintenance. Crews cleared a tree from the Uffington Trail (rescuing a couple of maple logs for the Rugby Lumber Company in the process). An army of weedeaters attacked greenery on the Allerton Ridge Trail. There was also a scouting trip to find an alternative to the trails in the vicinity of the White Oak Bridge. Thanks to trail volunteers Bob Hemminger, Julian Bankston, Jim Meadows, Mike Harris, Tom Howell, and Eric Wilson.
RUGBY COMMUNITY SINGERS
The Rugby Community Singers continue to practice weekly in preparation for their concert on September 5. Leader Ron Jackson announced that concert wear will include long-sleeved white dress shirts; something that I (Eric) have not had one of for a long time. Fortunately fellow tenor John Slater has bailed me out with a loan! Additional garb is being put together for this event but you will have to come to the concert to find out what it is. This will be a benefit concert for a member of the Rugby community who has substantial medical expenses.
YOGA
Jenny Young will be in Knoxville on tuesday taping a show with Missy Kane, whose exercise tapes are used regularly by the Rugby Exercise Group.
RUGBY PAINTERS
Another budding artist has joined the ranks of talented painters in Rugby. Margaret (Peggy) Erickson holds up the result of her first "Painting in One Day" class at Mara Trumbo's Art Expressions Studio in Cookeville.
Photo by Mara Trumbo
Birthdays
August 17 – Kasey Myers
August 20 - Scott Buck
August 23 - Delois Boone & Laurie Britt
Calendar of Events
August 22 – Rugby Summer Film Series – “Sergeant York” at 7:30 p.m. Eastern with audience conversation afterward with York’s son, Rev. George Edward York, and Dr. Michael Birdwell, an expert on Alvin York’s history and on this classic film that starred Gary Cooper. This event is co-sponsored by the Alvin York Patriotic Foundation.
September 5 – Rugby Pilgrimage, with rare tours of many private homes, as well as Historic Rugby buildings. The previous chance for the public to see inside many of Rugby’s homes was in 2007.
September 5 – Concert – Rugby Community Singers
September 12 – Community Potluck – 7:00 p.m. Eastern (Note date change due to Pilgrimage)
September 19 – Rugby Summer Film Series – “Amazing Grace” at 7:30 p.m. - chronicles the life of William Wilberforce, an 18th century Christian politician in England who dedicated his life to abolishing slavery and to the prevention of cruelty to animals.
October 17 – Book Club – 7:00 p.m. Eastern. The next book is The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Exercise Group – Monday and Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern at the Friendly House
Quilters Group - Wed. and Sat. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern at the Friendly House
HRI Workshops
(For more details about workshops go to Historic Rugby Website at http://www.historicrugby.org/ )
August 29 – Beginning Knitting – Instructor Veronica Ludlow - Learn to knit – start a hand knitted scarf with embellishments.
August 30 – English Watercolor – Instructor Veronica Ludlow – Step-by-step instructions in English floral and landscape techniques. You will create art to take home.
September 12 – Fall Wildflowers – Instructor Jack Carman - Wildflower walks, slide presentation and book signing.
TO REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS: Call (423) 628-2441 or Toll-Free 1-888-214-3400. Lodging is available at Historic Rugby with a 10% discount to all workshop participants.
Nature Notes
By Linda Konig
Darwin Bertram and Glenda told me a couple of weeks ago that they'd been watching a hummingbird moth at their place, but they 
thought it was a bee. It does look and sound somewhat like a bee and also like a hummingbird at first glance. Yet this cleverly disguised insect is actually a moth, and this is the time of year that you can see them hovering around flowers. Yes, they fly in full sunlight. Their disguise helps protect them from birds that would eat moths. They also make a slight humming sound.
They begin life as moths with wings that are plum-red to brownish-black, but their wing scales (what gives butterflies and moths their wings colors) fall off in their first flight, leaving their wings clear.
Even as young yellowish green caterpillars with a yellow tail horn, they're attracted to flowers; their favorite food being the foliage of various honeysuckle plants. We have plenty of representatives of the honeysuckle family around here, including not only the bushes and vines called honeysuckle but also elderberry bushes. So keep your eye out in your flower gardens for what looks and sounds at first as if it's a hummingbird. Then when you look closer, you think it's some kind of bee with clear wings. I read in one of my butterfly/moth books that you can sometimes attract these interesting colorful little moths to you with certain kinds of cologne or aftershave lotion. The book failed to name any brands, however. They usually have some olive green and red on their bodies. If you own an Audubon's Field Guide to Insects and Spiders, look up hummingbird moth. There's a nice picture of one.
This Week’s Editor - Eric Wilson
