2016 - Visioning and taking in Hawai'i in Four Islands

Reflecting on my summer adventure to Hawai'i and came to the understanding today, while trying to capture the essence of this amazing learning adventure, that I had not stopped to post anything during the trip here, only some photos on Facebook -  When I heard that my nephew, Charlie, youngest son of my twin brother, tehanshi Gary Engler planned to have a social wedding celebration in Hawai'i I just knew I was "in" to witness it and I could not miss the chance to complete all 50 states to visit in my lifetime!  Never imagined how my life would unfold, and voila, aloha, here I am visiting the Hawai'an Islands and learning about the geology, with indigenous history here and witnessing a wedding of two families, the Engler Family from Minnesota and the Saito Family from Fukoshima Prefecture Japan ------

December 28 2016

Now dropping into being present to my experience and living in the moment at that time - I will employ this as an exercise in writing up on the cloud, as it were, to sort this out writing my solstice letter, well, why not share the highlights as I might offer them in a memoir, like that my mom, Peg Weaver wrote in her Rememberings of an 83 yr old grandma, self published in 1993  -   new tools in a new century, perhaps others might enjoy my musings on the cloud, new beginnings in the cloud, the pahiya oyate My first host, Joyce taught me how to select my first Airbnd right in the Puna lava fields where I centered my entire trip on the Big Island Out of when I arrived in Hilo Thurs June 16

 To get grounded to this new place, I decided to walk from Hilo Airport to the Enterprise rental, as I found the rental cheaper in town that at the airport on this journey ----seeing the foliage and hills actually groking I am really in the tropics on the Big Island!   - Notice my pack with wheels, and the CPAP case, and I have on my back my computer backpack - Staying fit too, is always my want - in cost effective eco travel ---

Here is the simple and rustic open air kitchen where I spent time writing and chatting with Joyce, my host and guide in the greater Puna area  -----

 Living nearby is Clive, the farmer who is responsible for growing the papayas, bananas and other fresh roots and fruits - have ginger and turmeric as well - Giving me the morning shaka sign of peace -Clive was my first contact here on the Big Island that I found through my volunteer work with Mankind Project International- and grateful to be welcomed to the Aina - spirit of the land with 11 men with a jump in fresh water after an inipi - Pidamiyayedo!


Fresh fruit, local papaya's for breakfast with Joyce in the AM, whilst I brew some coffee ----- a local Kona as I recall, the taste from the island  - mmmmm

 
Rainbow view of a soft rain morning from the open kitchen looking to the north  ---- Great to have a home on the island to come back to each night, a very homey B and B, and my beginning to find lodgings all much less than the $99 space my MKP friend Kevin E recommended on the south east coast of O'ahu on the other side of the mountains from the sprawl of Honolulu ---my refuge for 4 days on O'ahu (there is no "w"in the breathing language of Hawai'ian) a'loha

 
Joyce showing where the lava came right up to the recycling station in Pahoa during the last close lava flow - Great memories of waking up to her chanting in Hawaiian to Pele, in respect to honor the fire from Mother Earth in a good way
 
Only in Pahoa, a chocolate volcano dessert complete with flowers at a local cafe' shared with with Joyce in this small town in Puna on the Big Island

 Joyce and I would drive down to the coast and take a dip in the warm waters here at , and then chat with the local artists several mornings   -----

--> Pohoik’i County Park , west of Kapoho

After a couple of days of rest in Puna, I drove for the first time to visit Pele  on Sunday afternoon, and the energy of the Volcanoes National Park,  from my journal "

-->--> arrrived at the National Park at 4, too late for the movie about the place… I walked around the grounds and stopped at the Art Shop and noticed beautiful colorful Hawai’ian images and some very high prices for art.  Glad there are wealthy people who like and can afford such things. 

 Then got a hit to go down the “Many Craters Road to the Sea "where the petroglyphs are….and found myself getting more grounded to this young island.  and knowing that the carvings are all less than 2000 years old as the Polynesians arrived here from the west in their boats.  and then got to the Jaggar Museum around 7 PM and watched the glow of the crater,  the essence of Pele….until 8 or so….and a lot of people there, so I drove back to the SE island coast to get to bed and rest"

 

Halema'uma'u Overlook, one a boiling lake of lava, still steaming with fumes of sulfur--home of the goddess Pele on Crater Rim Trail on my way to the Chain of Craters Road

Stopped to walk through this lava tube on the road down to the coast through lava fields to the coast and petroglyphs 

From a walk on the lava flow on the big island
Petroglyphs carved in the lava by the coast on the big island at the bottom of the road

Drove down to mile 16 on the Chain of Craters Road and walked a mile across the lava field to see many petroglyphs from some of the earlier human inhabitants of the chain of Islands

 The common native tree, 'Ohi'a lehua, that grows on the lava, here at the National Park --

 

and such a gift to be welcomed by spirit and know how to honor with spirits with a give away of fragrant and beautiful flowers  as the fire of Pele' became visible in the crater - such a florid and beautifully alive variety of ecosystems here in the middle of the peaceful ocean, the Pacific for sure ---- ended the Sunday in awe of Creation  ----

On Sunday morning I stopped at a market north of Pahoa, as Joyce recommended a stand that serves crepes, a great breakfast treat 



 Crepe stand where I had my brunch on my way to the west of the Island and visit a National Historic Park of Refuge

 

Family hanging out for a simple meal at the market  ----

 From here, I  headed west at Kea'au through the Volcano Village and National Park through the Ka'u district to the Refuge National Park of Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historic Park, where to escape the violence of the Kapu system, refugees, could find refuge in this place  ----


I remember dropping into a place of deep relaxation as I entered the space of the refuge here  Interesting image of the turtle with the places to sit -- later I would swim with the green sea turtles on the beaches of O'ahu and grateful for a couple of T shirts I picked up at the Market and Uncle Robert's Market Kaima, by Kalapana and the Kava (Awa) Bar where I learned how to honor the local use of the plant in a good way :



 
A reconstruction of a 16th Century six acre temple compound where a transgressor could escape to safety and refuge - kind of like the deep meditation I find in the Tibetan 4th Century Bon Practice of stillness, silence and spaciousness - having my body awake and keeping it simple - not getting hooked into thinking too much - and being present to gratitude in my inner refuge of infinity

 Reconstructed wooden carved Ki'i outside of the Hale O Keawe the temple here now reconstructed once held the bones and therefore the powers of the great chiefs  - the current artists' impressions here and I felt very peaceful and at home here!


#10 The Keoua Stone, a favorite resting spot of Keoua, a high chief of the Kona district in front of the 'Ale'ae'a Heiau, that predates the 16th C great wall - a focus of spiritual power prior to the building of the Hale O Keawe according to the guiding languge of the National Historical Park here

  
Colorful flora by the fish ponds at Pu'uhonua (refuge) o (at)  Honaunau  ----

A royal fish pond, which would have been stocked with fish reserved for those at the royal table

 Halau thatched A frame for storage and drying fish nets etc 

 

Naupaka, a dune binding native plant with "1/2 flowers" that lines the coastline here where I parked near pic nic ers  

View islandward from the black lava rock peninsula beyond the refuge ----

From here I drove up the Kona coast, which I found to be quite populated and more like the mainland -  headed back across the center of the island on 190 and 200 to Hilo and back to my "home nest" in Puna near Cape Kumukahi  the farthest SE part of the big island

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Another down day on the solstice with an I group at Clives with another MKP man, and then

worked to set my airbnb places and flights to Maui from O'ahu and found my first place , with a guy named Kevin in  Makawau by Pukalani in the upcountry of  Maui for 3 nights, and then with Carrie, a grandma in the town of Lahui, on the final Island where I stayed for 2 nights and then stayed with an MKP brother Fernando that Forrest had referred me to who has a simple place by 

--> Anahola for my last 2 nights on the Islands - 7 on Hawai'i, 4 O'ahu, 3 Maui, 4 Kaua'i - 18 nights in all or 2 1/2 weeks! 

June 22, Wednesday, got up early - and had breakfast in Hilo and from my notes "

--> Easy Does it

And nice balance of water and fire here on the island"

Here are the images from the east side of the big island where there is less development and more Nature!  

I had breakfast in Hilo, and soon   found a few rusty baskets near the bay and played a few holes for fun  ---


 Baskets rust near the salt water - not an ancient activity in the Polynesian era, it seems ---



 
Map of the east side of Mauna Kea, and see where the falls are here ------ 

 'Akaka Falls State Park - had a pleasant walk in this park on the NE coast of the Big Island and see the rainbow in the falls -------

 
Small town on the way to 'Akaka Falls State Park with the state flag and a special place to buy sarongs, the favored tropical attire of many men of the east  ---- and having enough of my own, just took the photo :-)



 On my way to Hawi to meet Forrest for lunch I noticed Lapakahi State Historical Park on the drier NW coast of the Big Island, that here are ruins of a large settlement established in the 14th Century that was inhabited for 500 years, until a water table

 The color of the tunka oyate, the stones is so different, the kind of lava than the newer black color in the south of the island 

yellow flowers on the white foliaged plant in the State Historical Park

View to the north with Maui, and Haleakala in the distance - the second biggest island and the peak where I will see the sun rise over the clouds and being mindful of the Kulenana, responsibility for passing the spirit and knowledge to the next 7 generations  - As is written on the folder I read on Haleakala,  Kukekele Ho'okuleana - No laila, I kou komo 'ana I keia wahi kapu, nou keia kueana e ho'oko  Therefore as you enter this sacred place, the kuleana is now placed upon you ----


My goal was to visit one of the MKP Hawai'i founders in Ha wi, named Forrest whom I met for lunch

I did and shared a meal in mid day  - after he was on the radio and learned that their was no gathering to meet up with guys during my visit - and grateful to be here ! He directed me to the road east to Kapa'au and then the airport road leading past the Mo ikin Heiau to find the isolated birth place of King Kamehameha on the famous much rutted road ---




Met a man,  Forrest ,  from MKP who lives in Ha-wi (had vee) and he directed me to a couple of places here on the north end, Kohala area of the Big Island - here is Kapa'au coast of blue and green--

Stopped to learn about local varieties of pine apple, from a local guy who raises them and worked for a time with Earl Bakken, a Minnesota guy made famous for his work with pace makers for the human heart, here in Minnesota and found of the med tech company in Fridley called Medtronic - here back in Puna I shared it with Joyce and Clive who a familiar with many tastes and colors of pineapples --mmmm fresh fruits  -- from their fruits I got to know them ----:-)

Said to be close to where King Kamehameha was born, quite a big place of stones on the -Aina of Hawai'i - serene and spaciousness here on the far NW coast of the Big Island

Market on the South Shore of the Big Island, at Uncle Roberts, where I tried the Awa Beverage, and purchased some local T shirts, of the turtle and whale! 

Second Island to spend time on was O'ahu----no "w" in O a hu---

After renting a car near the Honolulu airport -----I drove to Waikiki where Gary, father of the groom, my nephew so to speak, ACE, Aaron Charles "Charlie" Engler, was staying at this hotel ----

One the right, 4 members of Saki's family from Japan and Gary and Kathy Engler parents of the groom 

 

Kathy with Diamond Head in front of the hotel on Waikiki beach  

 

Our tour guide with his map of O'ahu, giving us an overview of his route on the island where we saw many sea turtles, went snorkeling, visited the Dole Pineapple Plantation etc 

 

Anoter Heiau site, this one near my B and B on O'ahu on the more rainy Leeward side of the island, and less crowded 

 

Hanauma Bay where I snorkeled as suggested by Jan Marie, my Golden Valley friend who spent time here back in day ----

Third Island for me Maui, where I stayed in an Airbnb on the slopes of the Haleakala Volcano for 3 nights

West Side of Maui, the dry side, Lahaina where Mark Twain hung out and visited this very hotel where I stopped for a ceviche snack

Early morning sunrise on Haleakala -------

History of Hawai'i and Moku and Ahapuaa districts - at the base of Haleakala driving past Hana, on the road past Hana ---

And the last 4 nights on the islands, the oldest of the chain on Kaua'i - 2 nights in an Airbnb in Lihu'e and 2 with an MKP man by Anahola

Water falls by the road near Wiamea Canyon on the dry side of the island

 
Playing the Disc Golf Course Kauai  at Puakea - played 18 holes here for the $20 rental of the cart! Long holes too

 

Hiking the trail on the wet side of the island ----a good workout---

1971 - 1973 Tom W travels developing openness to new ideas - Wo' wa cin tanka - Confidence and Fearlessness - Keeping the blocks Clear

 

Here in the winter of 1971-72, on the wooden snowshoes at the back door of the Palmer Main Cabin on Pelican Lake -  Shede Zaaga’iganing in Anishinabeg , during my 'hippie' phase as a second year medical student at the U of Minnesota on the East Bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis - Likely taken by Terrie Leonard, teenage daughter of Winnie and Dave Leonard, with whom I eventually lived in their basement in S Minneapolis, for a year in med school at 49th and Russell, just a block south of Lake Harriet ----  

 

Photo by Winnie Leonard, with the red, yellow and black knit stocking cap, she knit me for me while I was a med student, that I continue to wear for fun - Here I am  carrying  a jack pine log, with the 1953 Studebaker I purchased in Faribault that had been used on a farm to carry grain - I was able to keep this flat head 6 pick up going for many years, from the early 70's through the late 90's when I was led to sell my interest in the Pelican Lake property and find a buyer at an auction with my good friend Gary Engler near St Cloud -  

  
1971, Terrie Leonard, on wooden snow shoes in front of a wooden shed, with green painted doors - on the Jenkins, Pinkham, Leonard Property?
  
 Terrie Leonard with wooden snow shoes, in fresh newly fallen snow, winter 1970-71
Shed on the Leonard- Weaver shared property line in the mid 1970's after I, Tom , had purchased a windmill off of a farm near Kilkenny Minnesota in Rice County, with dreams of having a wind powered source for water, and sustainability in Crow Wing County - the windmill was never erected here at Weaver Nature Cabins and was sold to a Crow Wing County Farmer when I liquidated my holdings in the late 1990's  --- Photo by Rus Hurt, who had a dark room in our duplex at 1716 East Fifth St in Duluth from 1975- 78

 According to Winnie Leonard, this shed was  built by Faribault Shattuck and St James faculty and real estate developers, Fredrick Jenkins, and Fredrick Haeberle before 1920 - and the property line went through the center of the building until Tom Weaver negotiated a trade of property with Winnie where she could build a garage on the hill behind her house- cabin  -----

 
1953 Studebaker Pick up, in the early 70's with Jack Hinds, an elder who lived on Lougee Lake and whom I helped clear up his cabin and take loads to the Mission Township Dump and to recycle back in the day - Jack and Jan Hinds had a winter home near Eureka Springs Arkansas, and I hitch hiked to their place when I took 6 weeks off from med school to visit Arkansas, and hitch hike through Oklahoma to New Mexico and Arizona, then down to Mexico, Hermosillo, Mazatlan, to Mexico City back in the day   

Roots in Southern Minnesota, the land of the Wakpecute Dakota Oyate ----Faribault, Northfield 
 
Early 1970's view from farmland south of the Twin Cities with haze of the big city to the north - a time I worked with folks  in Faribault founding FACE-Q "the Faribault Area Committee for Environmental Quality  that I helped create along with Betty and Tom Kaul, which eventually turned into River Bend Nature Center "The history of River Bend began with the creation of the Faribault Area Committee for Environmental Quality (FACE-Q), which was organized to “preserve and protect the natural resources of the Faribault area.” In 1973 FACE-Q was reorganized as the Faribault Naturalist Club, members of which became the core River Bend Nature Center membership. http://www.rbnc.org/history.htm

Castle Rock as I knew it as a college student at Carleton where i found Selaginella a spore bearing plant I was introduced to by Professor Bill Muir - taken in the 1970's north of Northfield when I could drive easily to the site, honored by the Dakhota People as a rock, inyan, landmark

Me in 2003 visiting the Black Dog Cafe with misun Don Roden and hankashi Jane Newell, pointing out how tall the formation once was and it name Inyan (rock stone) Bosdatu (standing) Wakpa (river)

Like our own "Standing Rock River" to the Dakhota, named by the whites as Cannon River from wiki "Evidence of human activity along Inyan Bosndata (Or "Standing Rock River" as the Cannon is named in the Dakota Indian language) goes back at least 12,000 years. An important part of the yearly cycle was the hunting of buffalo west of the Mississippi and the Big Woods. The Cannon served as a primary route from the Mississippi River valley to the plains of western Minnesota where bison were common. The Dakota were forced to surrender the area in the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and most Dakota (except for a small group south of Faribault) left the area after the Dakota War of 1862. The "Standing Rock" of the Dakota language name is Castle Rock, located two miles east of the unincorporated community of Castle Rock.

The mouth of the Cannon River was a major center of this culture. In historic times Indians and traders frequently hid their canoes near the river's mouth, and so French fur traders called the stream La Riviere aux Canots, "the river of canoes." In 1877 there were 15 flour mills along the stretch of river between Faribault and Northfield alone. At Dundas, travelers still can see the aging limestone walls of the Archibald Mill. The Cannon River also flows through the Science Center at the Maltby Nature Preserve in Randolph, Minnesota.

MY START IN OVER SEAS TRAVEL  - March 1971

1971 - Living at U of Minnesota, Centennial Hall, where I  met Keith M Kubasch, founder of Anglo- American Society while he attended St John's College in the late 1960's ----As we both were in  medical school and I was interested in learning about travel, ----we arranged to take a charter flight organized through the U of M - to Malaga on the Costa del Sol of Spain in March of 1971, the first time I left North America to visit Spain and Morocco - ----On the flight was WCCO TV's well known newsman, Dave Moore --

A postcard with a jet DC 8 by Trans International Airlines with a note from Algeciras in the South of Spain to my parents in Faribault when I used the familiar address to my parents, Mom and Dad - Mops and Daps - something Greg Larsen and I started as a shared language - I traveled with Kieth M Kubusch to Morocco during spring break  -----March 1971

My post card home to my parents, in March 1971, from the south of Spain, just before taking the ferry to Africa --and Morocco with Keith M Kubasch - First foreign travel outside of N America, Europe and Africa  ----

I worked for Shell at a service station in Faribault and collected maps back then and charted our drive from Ceuta, to Casablanca, Ma

 Message from Marrakech from me and Keith below to my parents the backside of the card below

Palm Trees by Merrakech with Atlas Mountains in the distance ----

I went on this trip to get in integrity to get hired by Keith and the Anglo- American Society to co lead a trip later in 1971, to get some real experience in Europe and Africa traveling on our own!


Tony Hellenberg and Kevin Kubasch at the Times Square Motor Hotel Hospitality Desk, where we first met our clients, "Trippers" as Keith refers to them in his marketing brochure ---

Brochure of the 1971 Trip, printed in Winsted MN, note "tripper" is the word used for a traveler here -
Group photo for 1971, as printed in the 1972 brochure for the European Odyssey -
 
At the Tower of London one of the first days -



Windsor Castle with the black cars  carrying the Queen and others to the Ascot Horse Event --

 
Kevin Kubasch in front orange collars with 3 female trippers, and Tony Hellenberg mustache middle behind in London --

  Our two coaches stopped in the Welsh country side on the way north --

My Passport coming into the DDR, East Germany Landing in Berlin June 29 1971 Schonefeld airport, and leaving to Poland at Frankfurt am Oder ----

Keith purchased a new VW Camper Van, in Wolfsburg Germany, while I visited Sweden - We met up at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, and then drove east  ----


VW Camper at a camping place in he USSR
 
Red Square in Moscow, with lines for Lenin's Tomb --

Postcard from my mom, in June 1971 that I picked up in Moscow - later on the trip

Oberems, Switzerland, where Tony and Zachary knew of some Benedictines to visit- As they are members of the St John's Benedictine Order where they have been teachers ---

Tony Hellenberg, Kevin Kubasch, Zachary Williams, Tom Weaver and Kieth Kubasch sharing a bier in Oberems --

I hitch hiked back to Minnesota, going north to Canada, and got one ride from near Montreal, with Pete Lanman from Warren PA right to Pelican Lake MN around the top of Lake Superior --

Pete Lanman's van with Penzoil lined up for an oil change at the Weaver Pelican Lake Cabins

 

The 1970's with the cold war, and Richard Nixon with Mao, with ping pong diplomacy 

 

1971 Time Magazine with Ping Pong Players in April - 

1996 St Cloud Bethlehem Lutheran Boy Scout Troop Camping

For three years, I served as a Assistant Scout Master for the Bethlehem Lutheran Troup of Boy Scouts, along with Scoutmaster Gary Engler and fellow Assistant Scoutmaster Ron Schmid - We all had sons born in the mid 1980's  - Here are a couple of the campouts that we participated in back in 1996  ----

 

 Here we are setting up camp in the spring of 1996, behind the Weaver Nature Cabins, then stewarded by the Jim and Melanie Weaver family and the Sue and Tom Weaver family -  Pictured are the Schmid, Engler and Weaver campers, as well at Howie Heath, is looks to be playing a Native American Flute, an educator originally from Faribault and a long time high school  teacher in northern Minnesota -

 
Alex and Ron Schmid (left0 with ?? white rain gear?, Jesse Weaver, Charlie Engler, with Howie Heath holding his flute  ----



 Zac Engler with the early staminate and pistelate flowers (male and female) of the hazel shrubs with another scout on the Pelican Lake property

Another Campout at Lindbergh State Park, Little Falls, by the Mississippi River in 1996

 Cook stoves and tent setting up

 
Overview of the camp set up at Lindbergh State Park - Jesse Weaver, Mark Vasquez, and Alex Schmid in the front row setting up tents  --

 Troop Scoutmaster, Gary Engler, with other leader and scout, planning where to set up the stoves  --

 Mark and Jesse sharing water at the hand pump --- Mni Wiconi from the earth
 

Jesse and Mark at the Playground at Lindbergh Park

Immigration in the American South - WL Glessner publisher connections

 

In November 2011, the month I drove to southern Georgia, through Macon to Americus,  I found a reference to the scholarly  book, Immigration in the American South 1864-1895, A Documentary History of the Southern Immigration Conventions by Jason H Silverman and Susan R Silverman -

I wrote and purchased a copy directly from the authors, Dr Jason Silverman and Susan R Silverman

 

The Back cover of the book with authors bio -  

Jason from http://www.winthrop.edu/cas/faculty/default.aspx?id=14189

College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Profile

Name:

Jason Silverman

 Dedication to Glessner Family history in the South (Wm Legget Glessner, the first born son of Lewis Glessner,  had brothers and sisters who immigrated to Georgia from Ohio as well) See William Legget Glessner on Find a grave to see siblings "
  
  William Legget Glessner (1840 - 1926)*Sep. 27, 1840 Ohio,  d Jan. 5, 1926 Augusta, Georgia
Edward Cowles Glessner (1844 - 1864)*  b May 23, 1844 Ohio,  d Jun. 28, 1864 Kinnesaw Mt Georgia,
  Fredrick Henry Glessner (1846 - 1936)* b Nov. 1, 1846, Ohio d Dec.,  Dec 10 1936 Fostoria Ohio
  Florence Glessner (1849 - 1926)* Mar. 6, 1849 Ohio, d Sep. 21, 1926 Griffin Spalding County Georgia
  Clara Glessner (1851 - 1863)* b Aug. 4, 1851 Ohio ,d  Jan. 8, 1863 Findlay, Ohio
  Leonard Cowles Glessner (1853 - 1936)* (this authors great grandfather) Mar. 17, 1853 Ohio, Dec. 11, 193 Findlay,Ohio
  Douglas Glessner (1856 - 1910)* b Nov. 26, 1856 Ohio, d Jun. 10, 1910 Griffin, Georgia
  Laura E. Glessner (1859 - 1958)* b Jan. 16, 1859 Ohio, d Sep. 12, 1958 Brunswick, Georgia
  Eleanor Glessner White (1863 - 1940)"b Jan. 22, 1863,  d Oct. 4, 1940 Spaulding Co, Georgia
http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Glessner&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=12&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=42238689&df=all&

 

p 20 of Immigration in the American South, documenting WL Glessner stepped up to manage the Central Railroad of Georgia's Bureau of Immigration in March of 1888, and that he would accompany a train car into the Northwest including the Columbus ohio, exposition in October  

 

WL Glessner Editor of Southern Empire, Americus GA, Sept 1891 - note census data of assessed values in 1890 and 1880 in the text -  above and below issues of Dixie and even a colony to compare with the "Rugby" idea, promoted in Tennessee during that era - from Wiki "Founded in 1880 by English author Thomas Hughes, Rugby was built as an experimental utopian colony. While Hughes's experiment largely failed, a small community lingered at Rugby throughout the 20th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby,_Tennessee

Even the idea of world markets for cotton, a major crop of Georgia written on pages 339-40, in the Southern Empire, edited by William Legget (WL) Glessner, the first born son of Lewis Glessner of Delaware Ohio

 I sense the "fine hotel" referred to here in 1891 is the Windsor Hotel. Built in 1892, to attract winter visitors from the north, the Windsor was a 100-room, five story Victorian structure complete with towers, balconies, and a three story open atrium lobby. It occupies nearly an entire city block, and was the site of numerous balls and celebrations. As famous as the structure is, are the visitors who have graced its halls. see http://www.windsor-americus.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=60
 

 

Pecan tree in front of the Glessner Home in Americus, that I visited in Nov 2011