On our recent CruCon-booked Celebrity Cruise through the Caribbean, we spent a day in Antigua (where neither of us had ever been before), and as hubs is a chef (and I’m his favorite foodie!), we were really lucky to be able to spend the day learning to cook Antiguan dishes with Read more
As many of you know, I am a “sweeper” and contest-junkie. While my friends are playing Mafia Wars and Farmville at 2a.m. on Facebook, I am often entering sweeps and contests… LOTS of sweeps and contests! And while the downside is I get 1000+ emails a day (and you really Do Read more
Skillet Bacon Jam Chef Dan recently had the opportunity to try a new condiment at the Elkhorn Inn, and it turned out to be one that we like so much we’re ordering it for the Elkhorn Inn! It’s called Skillet Bacon Jam, and it’s made by the Skillet Street Read more
I took these in a hurry, with a “toy” camera, but here are some new guest room photos from the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre – Enjoy! Elkhorn Inn Dining Room Elkhorn Inn Fireplace LoungeWiFi & Sat. TV Red/White Guest RoomDouble Bed Yellow Flowers Guest RoomPrivate Bath, Double Bed Texas Star Read more
We just had a (suitably) pre-Halloween “Molly Moment” at the Elkhorn Inn!Elisse’s marble “Eagle Moon” lamp- from Rivkin Sudios, her grandparent’s 1912 photography studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma- just went On, after over six months of not working! When it stopped working many months ago, Dan was convinced that it needed a new Read more
On Friday evening, Oct. 1st, the night before the “October Sky” Festival in Coalwood, West Virginia with Homer Hickam and the other “Rocket Boys” of book and movie fame, Homer & Linda Hickam, and Randy Stripling (the actor who played Leon Bolden in the movie “October Sky”), came by the Elkhorn Inn & Thrilled Read more
This post should also be called “When Guests Become Friends”, as it truly was that kind of a weekend at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre! James D. Porterfield, historian and author of “From The Dining Car” and “Dining By Rail”, and “On The Menu” columnist for Railfan & Railroad Magazine, Read more
This has been quite a week- in the very best way! As Inn-Keepers, it’s a wonderful thing when guests truly become friends, and that is what these last few weeks have been about! I’ll start with this weekend, when Tony “The Trout” Wheeler gave us a day’s fly-fishing lesson on Read more
The other day I found this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbk81X6WHA4 the 1966 opening to Green Acres! Born in 1959 and a true product of my (Boomer) generation, I literally grew up on Green Acres (along with Laugh-In, Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, & I Dream of Jeannie); Grandma Tanya letting me stay up Read more
The Elkhorn Inn’s first “West Virginia Wine Dinner Weekend” was a grand (and delicious) success! Chef Dan’s Kirkwood Winery ramp-wine-marinated, herb-crusted roast leg of lamb was delectable, and So good with the Watt’s Roost Winery Chambourcin! The dry Martin’s Mist Dry Creek Blueberry Wine was perfect with the prosciutto & melon Read more