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| Michaelmas Daisies at Kingstone Lisle yesterday |
Signs of Fall in Rugby
One of the sure signs of
autumn in Rugby is the blooming of the Michaelmas Daisies. They are just about in full blossom now in
front of historic Kingstone Lisle. And
the Commissary is selling some plants for anyone who wants to put a bit of this
fall color in a home garden.
The village is starting to look and feel more fall-like now, with the dogwood leaves turning red and the nights and early mornings refreshingly cool.
Preparations for Rugby’s busy
fall tourist season are well underway. The fall decorating committee is getting
geared up (see Lisa’s Donegan’s article below).
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| Panels at Visitor Centrre |
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| Christ Church front with painting begun |
Work sprucing up both Christ Church and Newbury House continues and both are
starting to look a lot better. Some new
photo panels have been hung on the front porch of the Visitor Centre, courtesy
of the Big South Fork River and Recreation Area.
After receiving lots of
preparation work, scraping and sanding its old paint, Christ Church has started
to receive its new coat. You can see here that the trim around the front door has
been partially painted.
So the village should look
very good for this year’s fall touring and events. The Pilgrimage of Homes, a rare
opportunity to see inside some of the private historic and new homes, is Saturday,
Sept. 29. A Michaelmas Festival at the Church follows the next week, on
Saturday, October 6.
The photo is of our son, Ryan Erickson, former Rugby resident, at
BBC headquarters in London. In June of this year, Ryan began working for BBC
Monitoring as a translator of Russian and Georgian news stories at the BBC's
Tbilisi, Georgia office. He is in now in London to receive training in the
craft of journalism.
Help Needed for Rugby Decorating
By Lisa Donegan
Autumn is rapidly approaching and Historic Rugby needs to don her finest apparel in order to complement the finery that Mother Nature is about to put on. The decorating committee seeks donations of cash for the purchase of pumpkins, mums, ribbon, gourds and corn shocks. Alternatively, gifts in kind of these items are welcome. If anyone can provide a generous source for any of the items, contact information would be greatly appreciated. Donations and/or information can be given to Cheryl Hodgkins, Carman Roberson or Lisa Donegan. We are hoping for a grand turnout here in Rugby for the autumn season, and we want Rugby to shine!
History Night Report
By Linda Konig
The subject of last Friday night's History Club was Charles Wilkin Jefferson, one of the early Rugby stalwarts. A good bit can be learned on the Internet about Charles Jefferson and his brother-in-law, Arthur Dyer, as inventors of Micanite, bonded sheets of mica that are still used today in electrical equipment.
Jefferson emigrated to Sydney, Australia, after retirement, and I have been in contact via e-mail with a man there who either lives or works in Yengo Cottage, the house where Jefferson lived. The village there seems to have some interesting parallels to our Rugby. They're going to send me a booklet about Gregson Park where Jefferson, his daughter and son-in-law Gregson and children lived. It's a community of about 100 people, where 30 people actually live full-time and the others are weekenders. It's near Mt.Wilson, which is a nature preserve or park.
Local Accident Victims Flown
to UT Medical
Several people mentioned the head-on accident that occurred across
the river on Highway 52 in Fentress County on Saturday. Three people were taken
by emergency helicopters to hospitals and one was taken away in an ambulance. You can read about it at:
BIRTHDAY
Sept.
17 - Terry Martin
CALENDAR
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just barely.
Rugby is in the Eastern time zone, just barely.
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Friday, Sept. 21 –Music Night at the Café – 3-D Dulcimers
performing
Saturday, Sept. 22 –
Harvest Dinner at Grey Gables - Five course dinner with music and wine,
$30 per person plus tax and gratuity. Reservations - 423-628-5252
Friday, Sept. 28 –Music
Night at the Café – Gerald Hanwright performing
Saturday, Sept. 29 - Historic Rugby
Pilgrimage – This tour is the only time this year that some of some of
Rugby’s private homes are open to visitors. Guests will visit a dozen private
historic and new period homes, historic museum buildings and lodgings. Come
enjoy Morris dancing, music and period demonstrations. WOW – This just in yesterday: There’s a strong possibility of a
little theatrical piece for Pilgrimage
as a preview of April’s original, never-before-preformed Rugby “Quilt Play.”
Stay tuned and we’ll let you know.
Saturday, Oct. 6- Annual Christ Church Michaelmas Festival 10 am -4 pm. Admission to festival is free. Cream tea is served at 12 noon and 2pm. $10. For reservations call 423-628-1282 or emailgrannymcbrayer@gmail.com. Crafts, homemade goodies, music, English dancers. |
Quilters’ Group - Wednesdays and Saturdays, 2–4 p.m. Eastern, at the Friendly House behind Christ Church
Rugby Yoga – Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m. Eastern, at the Friendly House.
Christ Church Episcopal -- Sunday morning services, 11 a.m. Eastern, year round; all are welcomed.
Historic Rugby Workshop
Victorian Holiday Ornaments Workshop - September 22
Use fabric, lace, paper, ribbon and reed to
create charming Victorian ornaments. At the end of the day, take home 6 to 8
ornaments, plus many creative ideas for later! This workshop will be led by a
dynamic group of instructors: master basket maker Beth Hester, skilled heritage
craft instructor Joyce Lantz and Jody Hester, who is known for her quilts and
decorating. Hester has also helped outfit half of the village of Rugby in
Victorian costumes she helped make. Fee is $25.
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| Photo of frog taken by Barbara Stagg |
NATURE NOTES
Rugby’s Lost Chorus Frog?
Rugby’s Lost Chorus Frog?
By Linda Konig
There was a visitor in
my front yard a few days ago. Maybe he or she has been living in the southwest
corner of the yard for a while or in the edge of the woods there. I've never
seen a frog that looked like this one before, a real beauty as you can see here
in this photograph that Barbara Stagg made of it. Only about an inch long, it
was sitting on a nandina leaf asleep.
However, it woke up after Barbara and I kept exclaiming over it, moving
the twigs a bit to get a better picture. Then it jumped away and disappeared in
the green leaves.
I looked in all my frog
and toad books, but wasn't able to identify it. Too bad it wasn't nighttime; we
might have heard it croaking or twittering or bleating or whatever it is its
species does. Yes, each species has its own call, and, for me, it's always been
a lot easier to recognize them by their calls than by how they look. For one
thing, they're usually hard to see in the underbrush or mostly covered by water
or whatever, especially at night.
Meanwhile, we amateur
frog connoisseurs have tried to figure out what it was. We thought it looked
most like the Ornate Chorus Frog, but, according to all the books, they
shouldn't be within hundreds of miles from here, living much farther south. That
frog is out in great breeding numbers in late fall and in winter. However,
unless, global warming is really at full gallop here in Rugby and they've
hitched a ride up here, it doesn't seem possible that they could be breeding in
Rugby. Their call sounds a lot like a Spring Peeper, which does occasionally
peep a little bit in fall. Herpetologists even have a name for it: the fall echo.
This Week’s Editors: Rick Murphy and George Zepp
