New year, new snow! As I write this, the Pocahontas RR is chugging by the Elkhorn Inn- again! It’s been a fab few days for railfans since New Year’s, with almost non-stop trains and pushers going by! It’s also been Wicked Cold here lately- at the moment it’s a “brisk” Read more
Last night (Dec 2, 2009) wonderful Dreama Denver (Denver Foundation, Little Buddy Radio, etc.) did the drawing for the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre’s “Facebook Fan” Sweepstakes winners, and Elisse (me) announced the winner of the Elkhorn Inn’s “Marketing Buzz” contest at Gary Bowling’s House of Art in Bluefield, and BluefieldView Read more
With the good, comes the bad, right?We’ve had a wonderful fall at the Inn. If I complained about Anything I’d be a criminally stupid idiot. Homer & Linda Hickam stopped by the Elkhorn Inn the night before the Coalwood October Sky Festival and Totally thrilled our guests (and us)! Homer Read more
I love fall, don’t get me wrong. It’s REALLY pretty here in the so. WV mountains when the leaves turn, and they turn late here and usually hang around for quite awhile- it’s still pretty here come Halloween. As you can see from the photos, two weeks ago Dan & Read more
Yes, the Sweepstakes Queen of Landgraff, WV has finally launched OUR sweeps- AND a great contest, too! We have some really great prizes from the Elkhorn Inn Gift Shop, & the Contest has a Grand Prize of a $320 gift certificate to the Elkhorn Inn Inn for a two-night stay Read more
There are moments, however Grand it is out here in this green & beautiful place, when Living in The Country makes you want to slam you head into a wall until you pass out.And this was one of those weeks. As readers of this blog know, the FIRST post on Read more
I’ve been Tweeting… with a bunch of Travel Junkies, inc. @tomtravel2 @TastyGalaxy @thetripchicks @EliteTravelGal @miafeinstein @sueyoungmedia @Journeywoman @FillYourHotel @GoPetFriendly @princetonrt @TRACWV @wvurl and so decided, after an hilarious conversation about an article on Not Kissing The Blarney Stone For Fear of (eeeeeeewww) Germs, to post on Broadening Ones Horizons via Read more
It’s finally really and truly summer at the Elkhorn Inn- & it has even stopped raining! 😀 We’ve had a wonderful spring so far, with lots of great Railfan guests from places as far away as Florida & England (they love the “Pokey” in the UK, too!), & this weekend Read more
Our group of ATVing guests left the Inn this morning for home, happy w/their 2 days of riding, several armed with hand-made WV coal tchochkas for their wives 🙂 The daffodils & magnolia are in bloom, as are our 3 fruit trees, & Dan even set up my giant, new Read more
New Year’s Eve 2008-2009: Gary Bowling’s House of Art, Bluefield New Year’s Eve was fun- for the first time in 6 years we left the Elkhorn Inn on New Year’s Eve- because there was finally someplace worth going to! Friends and family from Virginia, North Carolina, and Minnesota came in, Read more