CHRISTMAS AT HISTORIC RUGBY SET FOR D EC. 8
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Candlelit visits to tradi
tionally decorated historic buildings\, seasonal music performed throughou
t the village\, an award winning film and mural at the new Rugby Visitor C
entre & Theatre\, and a traditional Victorian dinner combine to provide gl
impses of 1880s Rugby Christmases.
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The annual holiday fu ndraiser will take place December 8 at the British-founded museum village atop the Cumberland Plateau.
\nEvent hours are 4:00 to 9:00 pm Eastern Time. Event tickets are $12.00 and can be purchased in advance\, or on Saturday at the Visitor Centre. Tickets for Historic Rugby members are only $9.00 and high school and elementary students are $5.00. Dinner tickets must be purchased in a dvance and are $29\, tax and gratuity included. Call 1-888-214-3400 for e vent and dinner tickets and information on area lodging. Christmas At Rug by proceeds help support the restoration and preservation of the National Register village.
\nSix historic and reconstructed buildings open to visitors will be lit with candles and old-fashioned oil lamps. Beautifu lly decorated with holly\, ivy\, and evergreens\, just as used by Rugby’s early colonists\, these buildings will transport you back to 1880s Rugby. The open buildings include the antique-filled founder’s home\, Kingstone Lisle\, where Madame Margaret Hughes\, the founder’s moth er (portrayed by Virginia Lovellette) will greet visitors. The fragrance of plum pudding steaming on the kitchen wood stove and parlor music perfor med by Michael Harris and Donna Hefner will fill the house. Enjoy cider a nd cookies while listening to Robin and Company harmonize in the Schoolhou se. Visitors will also be welcomed to 1880 Newbury House\, the Victorian- furnished original boarding house now a bed & breakfast\, where Zeb Turren tine will be performing classical guitar music.
\nThe award-winning history film\, Rugby: The Power of a Dream\, will be shown several times each evening at the Visitor Cent re & Rebecca Johnson Theatre. A 32-foot wall mural at the centre shows Ru gby as it looked in the 1880s.
\nHot wassail will be served fireside at the Rugby Community Room where visitors can take pa rt in old-time carol singing led by musicians Butch Hodgk ins and Doug Piercy.
\nAt the Ru gby Printing Works\, the 1880s Chandler-Price letterpress will turn out ha nd printed hot wassail recipes for visitors.
\nVisitors are invited to the historic Christ Church Episcopal\, to visit with members and listen to the music of Thomas Howell on piano and Judy Newport on flute. The ch oir will also be performing there from 4:30 – 5:00 and 7:00 – 7:30.
\n< p>Christmas treasure shoppers will find many gift ideas. The Rugb y Commissary Museum Store\, the Spirit of Red Hill Nature Art & Oddiments Shop next door\, and the Painted Rooster andHistoric Rugby is 70 miles northwest of Knoxville on State Scen ic Highway 52\, adjoining the Big South Fork National Park. It was founde d in 1880 by British author and social reformer Thomas Hughes as an agricu ltural Utopia. Today approximately 20 of its 1880s buildings remain near a rugged\, river gorge setting. The museum village is open daily through December 31 offering building tours\, historic lodging\, food service\, mu seum store and special events and workshops. More information is at www.hi storicrugby.org
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