According to the Haslam website, Bob has practiced at Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis, PLLC, in the area of environmental and regulatory law, and has extensive experience working with companies on the development and implementation of corporate environmental management programs and auditing programs.
For six years, he served as Senior Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“Bob Martineau is one of Tennessee’s foremost experts on environmental regulation, and I’m thankful he’s come aboard,” Haslam said.
Bob is also a past president of First Steps Inc., a child development center; Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; and Community Health Charities, Tennessee Chapter. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and Cumberlands.
“I’m pleased and honored that Gov.-elect Haslam has asked me to join what I believe is an outstanding Cabinet,” he said. “I look forward to working with him as we take on the challenges and opportunities facing the state.”
Photos of the Week
Dorcus McBrayer took these pictures on a walk recently. (Jim McBrayer enhanced them to make them show up better). Both thought they looked like bear tracks. They were between Adena Cottage and Ingleside, but Dorcus also saw tracks on Offler Street and Luton Street, on either side of the Meadows' home.
James Agee, Cholera and Independence Hall
Early Marijuana Connection Revealed
Benita and Tom Howell showed colorful church vestments donated to Rugby’s Christ Episcopal Church in honor of James Agee, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer from Knoxville who is best know for his autobiographical novel “Death in the Family.” See photo to the left of Tom Howell holding two of the vestments.
Tom and Benita also displayed a cloth believed to be the original altar cloth for the dedication of Christ Church in 1887 and said to have been made by English nuns (see photo below).
Benita said St. Andrew's School, Sewanee, and St. Paul's Church, New York, jointly donated five sets of vestments in memory of James Agee. It was Father James Flye from St. Andrew's School who corresponded with Agee. Linda Konig said their correspondence referred to a possible visit to Christ Church. Agee died in 1955. The information in the sacristy about the donation doesn't include a date, but some of the vestments with contemporary designs probably weren't made before the late 1950s or 1960s. Wikipedia has an interesting entry about Agee including his lifelong friendship with Father Flye at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee .
George Zepp showed an oak and ivory letter opener owned by Rugby’s manager, Robert Walton, his great-grandfather. The opener includes an inscription saying it’s from wood dating back to 1732 taken from Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The building was restored in 1873. George’s research showed that souvenirs of this sort were indeed sold during the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 (the USA centennial year) using wood from oak beams that had to be replaced when 1873 repair work was done on the building. As a side note, George found one reference saying that the Turkish exhibit in 1876 was the first time that marijuana was introduced to the United States.
Rick Murphy brought one of two cholera medicine bottles that he and Robin Sexton had dug up while working in the back yard at Kingstone Lisle a couple of years ago. Rick said that he had not found any evidence of there every being a cholera outbreak in Rugby, but that there were cholera reports in Tennessee in the period from 1870 – 1900. He speculated that it would not have been unusual for someone to have had medicine just in case there was ever a problem in Rugby.
Free Medical/Dental Clinic This Weekend
Remote Area Free Medical Clinic is offering a medical and dental clinic in Oneida on Jan. 22 and 23. Services provided will include dental fillings, extractions, cleanings, denture repair and relining, vision checks, eyeglasses, medical exams, flu shots and mammograms. Services are offered free on a first-come, first-served basis. Patients must go to the HBD Industries parking lot, 240 Industrial Lane, Oneida, TN 37841 and obtain a number before being seen. Numbers will be handed out starting at midnight Friday and Saturday nights. Patients will be taken by bus to the Boys and Girls Club for services. Vans/buses will shuttle you back after treatment.
This is a great opportunity for anyone needing free medical treatment – it is also a wonderful volunteer opportunity since many volunteers are needed.
If you would like to volunteer, please call Lilly Stein 423-286-2502 to sign up or email lillyrstein@aol.com . Please arrive by 5:30 am. Volunteers only may park at the Boys and Girls Club and adjacent areas. Please follow the attendant’s instructions as parking is limited. Volunteers ages 14-16 must have a parent with them at all times; between ages 16-18 must have parent on site. If you would like to help provide food and/or snacks, please contact Tilda Bowling 423-627-2881
For questions, please call the office of Appalachian Life Quality Initiative (ALQI) 423-569-2677 or email ALQI@highland.net
Losing and Winning With Jessie – Week 3
By Jessie Gully
In total I have lost 7.6 pounds. That's less than two pounds last week, but I did not exercise. It was cold and my TV room was warm. So I sat and watched anything that came before my eyes.
I knew, however, that I was watching too much TV when I punched in the channel numbers for CNN to microwave water for my green tea. It's just that I love being all cozied up watching the ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS on the History Channel.
Then there was learning on National Geographic that the placement of eyes on mammals indicates whether prey or hunter. Eyes on the side of the head increases the peripheral vision. Eyes in the front increases the ability to judge distances for hunters. Neither one of these theories explains to me how I recently ran the front of my car into one of my carport posts. Maybe my eyes are set too close together.
Knoxville Blog Does Rugby
I just noticed an interesting blog from Knoxville called The SUNSPERE is NOT a WIG SHOP. They had an entry from July about their trip to Rugby http://www.notawigshop.com/2010/07/utopian-community-near-knoxville.html
Maggie Barger in Nursing Home
Linda Konig and Donna Heffner want to let folks know that Maggie Barger has had some medical problems and is now in a nursing home in Wartburg. Maggie is 93 years old and is known to many of us as a longtime supporter of Rugby and for her interesting stories about living and teaching in this area for many years. If anyone would like to send her a card the address is: Room 101, LifeCare Center, 419 S. Kingston St., Wartburg, TN 37887
BIRTHDAYS
Jan. 18 - Deanna Oliver
Jan. 23 - Sara Senft
CALENDAR
Fri. and Sat., January 21 and 22 – Dinner at Grey Gables 6 to 10 p.m. Eastern
Saturday, January 22 – Book Club at the home of Kit and Candy Howes. Book selection is AMERICAN LION by Jon Meacham. 7 p.m. Eastern Time, 6 p.m. Central, at 446 Big Creek Rd. For information call 931.879.5067
Saturday, January 22 - HRI Board Meeting - 1 p.m. Eastern at the Community Building
Sat. and Sun., January 22 and 23 – Licensed massage and energy work by Jessie Gully’s daughter, Elizabeth Bosse. For appointment, call 423-628-6090 or 931-260-3352. Details at http://www.ehbosselmt.massagetherapy.com/
Wednesday, February 2 - First afternoon tea of 2011 at Grey Gables
Saturday, February 5 – Community Potluck 7:00 p.m.
Friday, February 11 – History Night 7:30 p.m. at the Friendly House behind Christ Church. All are welcome.
Saturday, February 12 - Valentine Dinner at Grey Gables, "Ain't Love Grand." Mark you calendars for a fun evening of comedic entertainment and good food.
March 1 – Commissary will reopen – post office services will resume.
Fri. and Sat. April 8 and 9 – Rugby Quilts Exhibition
Friday, April 15 – History Night Annual Dinner at Grey Gables – Willie Beatty, President of the Fentress County Historical Society, will talk about Buck’s Mill
January and February 2011 – Historic Rugby Winter Hours: The Schoolhouse Museum will be open Monday – Friday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (weather permitting). Weekday and weekend historic building tours can be arranged by advance reservation by calling our toll-free number, 1-888-214-3400. Lodging will be offered throughout winter on a self-catering basis. The Café, Visitor Centre and Commissary (including the Post Office) will be closed for repairs and rearrangement. Normal operations will resume in March.
January and February 2011 – Grey Gables will be open for meals Friday and Saturday nights in January and the first two Friday and Saturday nights in February. A limited menu selection will be offered, but they hope it will give you a choice for food service during the time that the Harrow Road Cafe is closed for rejuvenation. Reservations are not required, but appreciated.
Quilters Group - Wed. and Sat. 2-4 p.m. Eastern at the Friendly House
By Linda Konig
Wouldn't you think that all the Halloween Ladybugs (also known as the Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle or Harmonia axyridis) that came indoors en masse last fall would have been vacuumed up and/or killed by now? Well, we're still seeing a few occasionally flying about on warmer sunny days in the church. Someone said this morning that vanilla is a deterrent. We all vowed to buy vanilla this week. It may not work, but we'll try anything.
We've probably all heard that they came originally from Asia and were imported to help with pecan and apple orchards. That's true, but evidently the U.S. Department of Agriculture never dreamed they'd thrive so. (I have a theory that our birds and other wildlife must not like to eat them. If anybody out there knows for sure about this, please let me know. We all know they smell terrible when picked up.) At this time, they're abundant all the way north to Quebec and all the way west to Missouri and Texas. Now biologists are concerned that they seem to be displacing our native ladybird (bug) beetles. So I don't feel the least bit guilty about stomping, vacuuming, and spraying them. Do they have any virtues? Well, they do eat aphids, but then so do our native ladybugs.
I got on the Web and learned a bit more about them this week. They're mainly arboreal, living in trees, during the warmer months. So that's why we don't see that many of them during the summer. I'd often wondered about that. For months you don't see them, and then in fall, the ladybug floodgates are thrown open wide as they POUR into buildings --chiefly on the warmer southern and western sides on sunlit days.
They're attracted to both warmth and light, so if you have a white house with white walls facing southwest, you probably have more problems with them than most. Unlike other kinds of ladybugs, these Halloween Ladybugs will bite occasionally. It really doesn't hurt much, though it is startling, and some have surmised that they must be after the salt on our skin. I'm not even going to go into the stink they raise when disturbed, except to say that it comes from a fluid exuding from their knees! Perhaps our Christ Church in Rugby should start using incense?
This Week’s Editors: Rick Murphy and George Zepp
