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Margery Bensey
Margery Bensey
Knoxville, Tennessee
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 09/21/2009
Last update : 05/31/2009
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  • I write poetry, essays, histories, short stories, and genealogies. Some of these have been published in the anthologies Breathing the Same Air, Knoxville Christmas 2008, HomeWorks, and Low Explosions; in the photojournal Park City; and in the newsletters Blackberry Corner, The Inkwell, The Record, and The Parkridge Press. My academic articles have been published in Assessment Update, Context, Staff Stuff, and Tennessee Today.

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  • Rugby Festivals

    May 31, 2009

    • Rugby's spring festival was in mid-May. We thought of going, but didn't, because there were too many other places to go in May. Going to Rugby would have been especially appropriate for us, since I've been researching Rugby for the past six weeks, the historic houses at Rugby inspired us to buy our own historic house, and we had a home wedding in the garden of our Rugby-inspired historic ...
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  • Married 20 Years on May 20

    May 31, 2009

    • May has been such busy month that we spent what time we could at Blackberry Corner, our almost 100-year-old house. It's our own private B & B.We celebrated being married 20 years on May 20 with a large leisurely holiday breakfast, white wedding cake with lime icing and pink roses, and a hike at the nearby Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge on the loveliest of days. We drove over to Seven Islands ...
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  • Maytime at Blackberry Corner

    May 31, 2009

    • We marked May Day with spring decorations--a pair of lavender pansy wreaths on the veranda, vases of pastel silk flowers throughout the house, and gardens of real flowers blooming outside during the month of May: lavender irises and ladybells; pink tulips, tiger lilies, and cherry blossoms; white roses and apple blossoms.Throughout the month, we had a cluster of celebrations: my birthday, our ...
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  • Our Historic House

    April 13, 2009

    • Our inspiration to buy a historic house came as a direct result of visiting the little English village Rugby in August 1988. Our wedding was nine months away, and we were thinking of where we might want to live. That trip to Rugby swung the decision toward an antique house, antique furniture, antique life! At home in my garret apartment, with its cathedral ceilings and cream-colored carpet, I ...
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  • Our Rugby Pilgrimage

    April 3, 2009

    • We—my fiancé Michael and I—first visited Rugby over 20 years ago for the Rugby Pilgrimage festival in August 1988. We were enchanted by the little village preserved from the previous century! While we were there, we visited the blue-painted Rugby Library and were stunned by the cases of perfectly preserved books in bright jewel colors, lettered in gold. At concert time, we sat in the little ...
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