Due to the stormy weather this past weekend, the Legacy outdoor rock concert has been rescheduled to this Saturday, May 1, at 7:45 p.m. Hope to see everyone there for a fun time, and no storms!
Photo of Legacy at 2009 Rugby concert. Photo courtesy of Historic Rugby
SPIRIT OF RED HILL REOPENS FOR SEASON
By Donna Heffner
Annie Patterson and Donna Heffner announce that Spirit of Red Hill will open for the 2010 season on Friday, April 30, at 10:30 am. This year we’re changing the shop hours, and will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday, noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone and getting “back to Rugby!” We’ve missed y’all.
Photo of Red Hat Ladies who visited Rugby last week in front of Commissary. Photo by Rick Murphy
MAY POTLUCK
Julian Bankston wants to let everyone know that the date of the May Potluck has been changed to the second Saturday - May 8 at 7:00 p.m. That will make it easier for the folks participating in the Cemetery tour May 1 to attend the potluck.
Benita Howell, Jane Fuchs and Mary Ann Lovett prepare Historic Rugby's spring newsletters for mailing. Photo by George Zepp
BOOK SALE/DONATION/GIVEAWAY
By Jody Hester
As a good friend of our family says, “The time that was to arrive has arisen.”
A committee has been formed to do something about the Community Center’s Lending Library. The library was formed some 20 plus years ago and has served its purpose well. The time has come for the building and the space to be updated. The books are old (maybe some rarities, but probably just treasures) and they are, for the most part, musty.
If you have an opinion, good, bad, or ugly about the library please contact:
Lavonne Gibbs: clgibbs@highland.net
Nora Meadows: jhmnhm@highland.net
Jody Hester: jonell@deceelabs.com
Anyone who may have donated books, etc. to the lending library, and would like to retrieve their book may do so. Please contact one of us by May 8.
If you have any ideas about what to do with the books, please let one of us know. If your idea involves shipping them to some near or far away place, please include your plan for funding. We MIGHT be able to HELP someone TRANSPORT the books to a place within a 200 mile radius of Rugby. (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga).
Plan A: We are going to contact the libraries in Scott County and in Sunbright to see if they want the books.
Plan B: At present is to have a “Hurt Book” sale/donation/giveaway at the Spring Festival which is only weeks away. We have to get busy on this project and we will be having several work days in the very near future. If you would like to help with this project, please contact one of us for dates and times.
Plan C: Is to see if the books can be recycled. I was taught that books are our friends, and that would be a cruel fate for a bunch of old friends.
BIRTHDAYS
April 27 - Douglas Cooksey and Beth Donegan
CALENDAR
May 1 - Grey Gables Bed ’n Breakfast Inn Spring Vineyard Dinner. Five-course dinner, Highland Manor Wines and David Howard light mix of acoustic original music. 7:00 p.m. Eastern. $160.00 includes: Vineyard Dinner, Lodging, Country Breakfast, double occupancy (Does not include tax or gratuity on dinner) - $30.00 per person plus tax and gratuity. For Reservations: Linda Brooks Jones, 423-628-5252.
May 8 – Community Potluck – 7:00 p.m.
May 8 – Rabies Shot Clinic for dogs and cats - Brooks Store - 2:30 p.m. - $8.00/$12 for 3-year dog vaccination. Sponsor: TN Department of Health.
May 15 and 16 – Spring Festival
June 19 – Premiere – Rugby Play - “Emmy and Granny”
June 20 – Matinee Performance - “Emmy and Granny”
Quilters Group - Wed. and Sat. 2-4 p.m. Eastern at the Friendly House
By Mara Trumbo
They came from Oneida, Robbins, Allardt, Crossville, Jamestown and Rugby. Six wannabe artists had a first encounter with the "Wet-ON-Wet" Oil painting technique taught by local artist Mara Trumbo, a Certified International Jenkins Art Instructor. Taught step by step, and combining the One Stroke Painting technique on the acrylic background with the Gary Jenkins style of oil painting on the iris, all students went home with a finished painting at the end of the day. Mara's piece will be exhibited and available for sale at the May 15-16 Spring Rugby British Appalachian Festival next month, where she will be demonstrating her various techniques and recruiting new students. A reminder that Mara will travel anywhere in the vicinity to teach small groups and help with fundraisers. Call her on (423) 628-6591 or E-Mail Mara at Cadisama@earthlink.net
WORKSHOP CALENDAR
For Workshop Registration contact Historic Rugby at 888-214-3400 - rugbylegacy@highland.net
Saturday, May 22 - Gardening With Herbs - From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern. Learn to plant an herb garden to be used for your culinary delight! A garden will be planted for the Harrow Road Café. Following the class join us for an herbal luncheon tasting some of the varieties used in the workshop. Bob Washburn always delights the group with having a selection of favorites from his 58-acre greenhouse nursery available for purchase. Bob is co-owner of Wolf River Valley Growers in Pall Mall, this area's largest greenhouse. He has served as the president of the Tennessee Flower Growers Association and past chairman of the Southeast Greenhouse Conference. Workshop fee $15, plus $9 lunch at Café.
Saturday, June 5 - Crazy Quilting Rugby Style - Instructor Joyce Lantz. Try your hand at this Victorian and Appalachian patchwork pastime in your own style--silk, satin or velvet, cotton and denim, plain or fancy! Make a pillow, a picture, a wall hanging or a quilt. This class will start you off.
By Linda Konig
We aim to please. I had a request from the editors of "Rugby Week" a couple of weeks back to write about the little critters whose empty clam-like shells we often find along the banks of the creeks and rivers around Rugby. Mostly, these are about 3/4 of an inch wide and brown on the outside, chalky white on the inside. Well, so far I've been unable to discover the precise name of the shell they brought me, but it was some kind of mussel, I think, and some animal--a raccoon, muskrat or an otter, etc. probably ate the little critter and cast the shell aside. We have about 31 different kinds of mussels in the Big South Fork area. I have determined the age of the one they brought, however. It was approximately 10 years old when it died. How do I know? I counted its growth rings. Yes, like trees, there's a line for each year. Ten years is young for a mussel. They usually live to be about 60 and can live much longer.
I've had fun lately learning about mussels in general and was really amused and amazed by their life cycle. Let's take the Wavy-Rayed Lamp Mussel, one of the mussel species in the Big South Fork, as an example. It grows to be about 4 inches long and starts life with a host of other minute glochidia (sort of like larvae) growing inside a female mussel's gills. After the Wavy-Rayed Lamp Mussels reach a certain size, however, they must leave the mother mussel and take up life as parasites on a Small-Mouth Bass. Yes, it must be a Small-Mouth Bass. Other kinds of mussels have their own different species of host fish. So how do they find a Small-Mouth Bass? The glochidia can't do it, but the mother mussel attracts the Small-Mouth Bass by tricking it with a lure just as fishermen do with their lures. No, I'm not making this up.
She has a flap or "lip" at the edge of her shell that looks like a minnow. She can push it out when the time is right or withdraw it back inside her shell. This fake "minnow" even has eye spots and tiny markings. So along comes a Small-Mouth Bass and opens its mouth to grab a meal, but instead grabs a mouthful of glochidia! Then they make their way to the fish's gills or fins where they hook onto and live off the fish for a time. This doesn't hurt the fish, by the way. After the glochidia have grown to a certain size, they drop off the fish and float to the bottom of the stream where they spend the rest of their lives siphoning water. In the process, they receive their oxygen and nutrients AND, fortunately for us, purifying up to 12 gallons of water a day. This last fact is why they're so important to the health of our streams and coincidentally to our own health as well.
A Poem by Kendall Jackson, 4/2010
Little place called Rugby
Hidden in Tennessee,
Strangers seem to find it
So much there to see,
Smiling faces n' outstretched arms
Are what you find in town,
History awaits the hunter
In every building found.
The Church though small
Is filled with love;
Father Peter has his say
In sermons filled with peace
And joy and help for everyday.
When you discover Rugby
There's a surprise at every bend.
You may arrive a stranger but
You're sure to leave a friend.
This Week’s Editors: Rick Murphy and George Zepp
