Please join the East Tennessee
Library Association (ETLA) for a tour of historic Rugby, TN, including its library,
on Saturday, November 6. Please RSVP to Lisa Travis at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and let her know how many will be coming and whether
you will carpooling with the group. If you plan to carpool with the group,
please let Lisa know when you plan to leave (i.e. after lunch, after the
cemetery lantern tour, after dinner, or the next morning). It is very important
that Lisa receive an accurate number of RSVPs for the carpool, tour, and lunch.
We will be meeting at 9:45am in the far northwest corner of the parking lot at
Dick’s Sporting Goods, 221 North Peters Road, Knoxville, TN, 37923, in west
Knoxville to carpool to Rugby. See http://tiny.cc/9wf6b for directions
to Rugby from this location.
The guided tour of Rugby is $5
and will begin at the Rugby Visitor Centre & Theatre with its 32-foot wall
mural of Rugby in its heyday. Parking is immediately behind that building.
Inside, we will relax in the Johnson Theatre for a 22-minute showing of the
award-winning Rugby history film, The Power of a Dream. Then we will
take the guided walking tour to the 1882 Thomas Hughes Free Public Library, the
1884 Kingstone Lisle founder's home, the 1887 Christ Church Episcopal, and the
1906 Schoolhouse exhibits. The library does not have a heating system; please
dress accordingly. Each tour can accommodate 20 people; two tours can be run
for our group if we have more than 20 people.
Following the historic Rugby tour, we will meet for lunch at the Harrow
Road Café, which will likely cost $7-$12. We must use a limited menu, which
includes a vegetarian option, if we have more than 30 people in our group; it
is very likely we will be able to order off of the full menu, which is much
longer.
You can then choose to stay in Rugby for a special event, a cemetery lantern
tour that begins at 4:30pm and is limited to 40 people; you need to call
individually and make your own reservations for this, dinner, and/or lodging.
Tickets are $15 for the cemetery lantern tour only or $28 with dinner afterward
(tax & gratuity not included). This will be the second time this
historically accurate presentation has been presented. Rugby residents who now
call Laurel Dale Cemetery their home will "come back to life" to tell
participants about their past days in Rugby. A colorful assortment of costumed
characters will confide the true secrets about Rugby of old.
After the cemetery lantern tour, which is approximately an hour long, you may
choose to stay for dinner. The Harrow Road Café opens for dinner at 5:30pm. You
may bring your own wine for dinner with $1.00 corkage fee per bottle.
Here are phone numbers for reservations for the cemetery tour, dinner, and
lodging: 1-888-214-3400 or 423-628-2441.
For more information on Rugby, see http://www.historicrugby.org/.
If you have any questions, please call Lisa at 423-869-7132 (work) or,
865-300-3297 (cell) or email her at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask].
All the best,
Lisa Travis, M.S., Ed.S.
ETLA Vice President/President-Elect
Medical Librarian
Lon and Elizabeth Parr Reed Medical and Allied Health Library
Carnegie-Vincent
Library
Lincoln Memorial University
6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway
Harrogate, TN 37752
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(423) 869-7132
http://www.lmunet.edu/medlib