Ah, autumn in Landgraff, WV… the air gets crisp, the leaves change colors, and people steal your political signs off your property…I start this post with the unhappy news that our McCain-Palin sign was stolen from our side lawn the other day. Either a desperate McCain supporter, unable to find Read more
Here’s a link to our press release for the upcoming “Coal Heritage Trail Weekend” Oct 10-12, at the Elkhorn Inn, with the Author & Historian Alex Schust: http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200810/1222978275.htmlWe are really excited about this very first CHT event, and hoping that if it’s a great success we’ll be able to do Read more
This post is mostly about FOOD – in all it’s summer glory! For starters, my husband, Chef Dan, recently made the most amazing French demi-glace I have ever eaten in my life. A truly sublime thing of such delicious, rich intensity, it turned every mundane thing it touched into the Read more
Four nights in Japan: Geisha Goldstein & Samurai Dan eat sushi! We came back from Lowe’s this evening with a cherry tree, to plant at the Elkhorn Inn. After seeing the cherry and plum trees in flower in Kyoto I totally HAD to have a cherry tree at the Inn! Read more
Just got back home from 24 days in Elkhart County, Indiana, where I was working for FEMA Community Relations on the disaster response/recovery operation for the January floods. We had the best little team in the universe (and the most tolerant, funny, and “FEMA Flexible”one, too!), and in 3 weeks Read more
I am writing this Valentine’s Day Blog to my husband to let the “world” know how much I love Dan, truly the love of my life. Yes, this is the man who created our home (and the Elkhorn Inn) from, essentially, a pile of bricks & mud (a pretty darn Read more
I know now, 100%, that journalists make the water run!Dan may make the sun shine and stars glow, but journalists make the water run!Thanks to Charles Owens of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, and Jessica Lilly of CBS WVNS-TV News59, we have running water- and the best water pressure we’ve had Read more
I have just been on the receiving end of Truly Great Customer Service- from www.igourmet.com from whence Dan’s Hanukkah present came. (You must remember Hanukkah- it was a couple of months ago…) Back in Nov., with H looming over the horizon, I decided that Chef Dan, a.k.a. “Smokin’ Dan”, Landgraff’s Read more
Can you sing the theme song to “Green Acres” in Hebrew? The vegetable garden has grown quite a bit since Dan first built it in 2004, & I am ever threatening to put up a sign in Hebrew that states “Kibbutz Goldstein-Clark, Volunteers please go to the Office”, in the Read more
Five years ago when we bought the flooded mess that we (Dan) would turn into the Elkhorn Inn, there was nothing out front and to the sides of the building (as well as inside the building) but mud & debris. And by debris, I mean rusted appliances and moldy furntiure, Read more