Rugby Visit
Yesterday I took the American history class plus one other junior to Historic Rugby, a historic site near the Tennessee-Kentucky border. Rugby is a town that began as a refuge for second sons of the English aristocrats, something like Kenya. It began in 1880 and failed by 1887 for a variety of reasons, one being that those sons didn't exactly like hard work and another being the failure of the British board to give the settlers some control over their lives.
The juniors' job was to help the head interpreter (read guide) to clean up magazines and books from the 1880's in the town library. Cataloging in that library basically stopped in 1882 when it opened. The students wore white gloves and used paint brushes to clean the dust off the magazines. They did this for about 2 1/2 hours in the morning and another hour and a half in the afternoon. They also got to tour the original Episcopal church, a period print shop, and the home of the town's founder Thomas Hughes. Of course, before we left, we visited the town store with all its dust-collectors, books, candy, etc. from here and England.
It was a good day even though it rained going up (two hours one way), and fog had set in on Dayton Mountain. Of all the field trips I've taken, this one should have been rated one of the best.
posted by James @ 7:52 PM
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