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One hundred fifty years ago, Southern Maryland hosted both a huge prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate soldiers and a major recruiting station for African-American men to join the Union forces as the Civil War continued into its second full year.
Approximately 4,000 rebels died at Point Lookout of the 50,000 or so who came through, and nearly 5,400 free blacks or runaway slaves joined the Union and trained at Benedict, both starting in 1863.
The same year, the St. Mary's Beacon newspaper was suppressed for almost six months because of a critical editorial. In northern St. Mary's, a wealthy plantation owner fled after a Union lieutenant was shot and killed trying to recruit his slaves, which caught the attention of the president.
Union troops occupied the three Southern Maryland counties at the start of the Civil War. It was no secret that with its great number of slaves, the region shared its sentiments with the Confederacy.
"Southern Maryland is considered Virginia in miniature by the Confederacy," said Don Shomette, author of several maritime histories of the region. A resident of Dunkirk, he is working on three new books, one of them titled "Silent Rebels: Southern Maryland in the Civil War."
Some 22,000 Marylanders joined to fight for the Confederacy, many from Baltimore. Southern Maryland provided some 700 white men to the rebel side, according to Shomette's research. Only a handful of white men joined the Union, other authors have written.
With its land surrounded by tidal waters, and a Union railroad and forces to the north, "Southern Maryland is at the mercy of the Union," Shomette said. "They develop this spy network, this supply network" from Baltimore and into Virginia.
General Joseph Hooker's division bivouacked in western Charles County until March 1862, with artillery facing Virginia to prevent any invasion toward Washington, D.C., and discourage Confederate artillery shelling, said John Wearmouth of Port Tobacco, co-author of "Times of Port Tobacco."
Union forces camped in Leonardtown from December 1861 to May 1862 after contraband materials were found being shipped across the Potomac River to the Confederacy.
Leonardtown was left to itself again until late February 1863, when 150 Union troops came back to monitor the town after 168 cases of boots and shoes intended to go south were seized.
The April 2, 1863, edition of the St. Mary's Beacon, which relayed the re-occupation, also contained an editorial called "The War Upon Women." The editorial "was considered by the agent of the Government as treasonable," the Beacon later said. Co-editor James Downs was arrested April 15 and taken to the Union-held Point Lookout, then to Baltimore. Because of Downs' arrest, "this paper will be discontinued for the present," the Beacon said on April 23, 1863.
The newspaper emerged again on Oct. 1, 1863, as the St. Mary's Gazette, under editor Walter Thompson. "In view of the great public inconvenience to which the people of this county have been subjected, by the suppression of the Saint Mary's Beacon, I have determined to publish the St. Mary's Gazette during its further suspension," he said. The paper also noted that Downs had returned home and resumed the practice of law, "we are authorized to state."
Calvert County did not have a newspaper of its own to detail weekly life until 1867, with the Calvert Journal. In Charles County, the Port Tobacco Times continued publication during the Civil War, but many issues went missing afterward.
"The disappearance of the issues for the Civil War period is tragic," wrote Roberta Wearmouth, John's wife, who compiled the abstracts of the newspaper.
"Somebody stole them" after the war, said John Wearmouth.
The Wearmouths have spent much of their lives collecting artifacts of the Civil War and writing Charles County history. They now are working to liquidate the collection to libraries and museums. John Wearmouth said he is the last living member of the Charles County Civil War Centennial Commission, which did its work in the 1960s. He said he was the only northerner in the group, which established roadside historical markers that highlighted the escape route of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.
No longer a resort spot
During the Beacon's suspension, the Battle of Gettysburg marked a turning point. The Confederate Army under General Robert E. Lee reached its northernmost point during the three-day battle from July 1 to 3.
After that battle, the Union had more Confederate prisoners than it had space for, and several locations were hastily made into prisoner-of-war camps.
Formerly a summer resort destination, Point Lookout was already opened as the Hammond Hospital for Union troops in August 1862. After Gettysburg, a 40-acre prison compound was built north of the hospital on the narrow, sandy peninsula between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay.
It was an ideal location for a Union stronghold. "It is remote, and it is easily defended," Shomette said.
The number of Confederates there in August 1863 was 1,700, according to the National Park Service. On October 12, 1863, The (Baltimore) Sun reported 4,000 rebel prisoners at Point Lookout with 2,000 more expected. Many more would come.
By the time the camp closed in the summer of 1865, more than 50,000 rebel prisoners had passed through, making it the largest prisoner-of-war facility in the north, according to the National Park Service. For a brief time, there were 30,000 men there all at once, Shomette said. There were so many Confederates at Point Lookout that Lee made plans to invade it and free the prisoners, Shomette said. But Lee didn't know that most of the men were not in fighting condition.
The Beacon did not report much on the activities at Point Lookout, but the facility was large enough that it had its own newspaper, the Hammond Gazette, which published from 1862 to 1864, according to the Library of Congress.
There are diary accounts from prisoners there and a collection of watercolor illustrations that still remain.
Yancey Malone of North Carolina wrote in his diary when he first arrived there in the winter of 1863, "Our rations at Point Lookout was 5 crackers and a cup of coffee for Breakfast. And for dinner a small ration of meat 2 crackers three Potatoes and a cup of Soup. Supper we have none. We pay a dollar for 8 crackers or a chew of tobacco for a cracker."
Housed only in tents with fewer blankets than men in January 1864, Malone said, the prisoners were cold and hungry. A rat was caught and cooked.
Edwin Beitzell, in his book "Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates," said that there was one blanket for every three men.
Black guards new to the Union forces were brought in to man the parapet around the enclosure, much to the consternation of rebel prisoners. "They're sticking Southern Maryland in the butt by using black troops," Shomette said of the Union.
Malone wrote that some of the guards played with their guns, accidentally shooting each other, and that another accidentally shot himself through the head. Others wrote in their diaries of fellow prisoners shot and killed by guards.
"Very rarely has any complaint of ill treatment on the part of our soldiers toward the prisoners ... been made," testified Union Brig. Gen. James Barnes to the Committee of Congress on the Conduct of the War in April 1865. "I cannot at this time recall a single instance ... of any moment."
The prisoners bathed in the salt water of the bay, to which they had free access during the day. Their captors were unconcerned because the rebels were told that the bay was up to 100 miles across to extinguish any hope of escape. At times, the tides would bring the bay flooding into camp, accounts said.
In his account of prison life, prisoner Luther Hopkins said, "Many of the prisoners had a peculiar affection of the eyes, caused, perhaps, by the glare from the white tents, the sand and the reflection from the water. There was nothing green to be seen anywhere, consequently many of the prisoners became blind for a portion of the 24 hours."
The prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, Ga., run by the Confederacy, was infamous for its cruelty. Its commandant, Capt. Henry Wirz, was executed as a war criminal a few months after the war ended. "Point Lookout is the exact same thing," Shomette said, "except it was due to the criminal activities of officers' raking off materials for their own."
The prisoners had to make due for their own comfort and survival. "They developed their own sewer system, their own pottery," he said. They were afforded their own school house and post office.
The prisoners caught, cooked, traded and ate blue crabs decades before there was a market for them.
In his watercolors, John Jacob Omenhausser of Virginia depicted a waterfront scene called, "The Reb who never saw a crab." One man holds up a live crab saying, "Mr. just smell this bug it's the sweetest thing you ever smelt." The other man leans in to smell the crab, only to get pinched on the nose. He said, "Make him let loose or I'll knock his brains out."
President Lincoln was largely a hated man in Southern Maryland, but he and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton slipped in to visit the camp at Point Lookout on Dec. 28, 1863, on the way back to Washington, D.C. "It is understood that they satisfied themselves that not less than a thousand [of the prisoners], or about a tenth of the whole number, are ready to enter the service of the United States," reported the New York Tribune the next day.
Assembling new recruits
After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863, following the Union victory at Antietam, "It's not a long jump to arming free blacks," Shomette said. However, Lincoln's proclamation only applied to slaves in areas in open revolt. Maryland was forced to remain with the Union — "a union state with slaves," Shomette said.
Union recruiting stations were established in October 1863 at Forrest Wharf, Leonardtown, Benedict and Lower Marlborough, where slave owners were offered $300 per slave but were never paid.
The Sun cited the Port Tobacco Times on Oct. 12, 1863, that 40 or 50 slaves left out of Pomonkey in Charles County. "At this rate, our county is likely to be entirely drained of available working labor in a very short time," the Times reported.
On Oct. 24, 1863, The Sun cited the St. Mary's Gazette's report that 50 black men left the Leonardtown area and were not heard from again. Fifty to 100 slaves in central St. Mary's along the Patuxent River side "have left their masters during two days this week," the paper said.
"The economy of Southern Maryland really suffers," Shomette said in another interview. "It loses its white manpower and black manpower."
On Oct. 20, 1863, a Union detachment from Benedict of four men arrived at the waterfront plantation known as The Plains — today's Golden Beach neighborhood — to recruit slaves into the Union army. Col. John H. Sothoron and his son, Webster, met the recruiters with arms. Accounts differ on what happened, but 2nd Lt. Eben White was fatally shot in the head and chest. Sothoron and his son fled for the Confederacy, and the Union confiscated the farm and two others on the Patuxent River in St. Mary's County, where crops were then grown for the Union.
After White was killed, Major Gen. Robert C. Schenck sent a telegram to Lincoln. Col. William Birney, recruiting and mustering officer for Maryland, visited with St. Mary's County residents "and the only apprehension they expressed was that their slaves might leave them. It is a neighborhood of rabid secessionists. I beg that the President will not intervene and thus embolden them," Schenck wrote.
The Maryland delegation had reported that the presence of black soldiers at the river landings was frightening citizens, according to the Library of Congress.
In a draft letter to Stanton, Lincoln wrote on March 18, 1864, that "the family of Southern [sic], who killed a recruiting officer last autumn, in Maryland. He fled, and his family are driven from their home, without shelter or crumb, except when they got by burthening our friends more than our enemies. [Sothoron] had no justification to kill the officer; and yet he would have been killed if he had proceeded in the temper and manner agreed upon by yourself and [Maryland] Gov. [Augustus] Bradford.
"But this is past. What is to be done with the family? Why can they not occupy their old home, and excite much less opposition to the government than the manifestation of their distress is now doing? If the house is really needed for the public service; or if it has been regularly confiscated and the title transferred, the case is different," Lincoln wrote.
Upon his return to St. Mary's, Sothoron was acquitted of the murder in the county circuit court as a justifiable homicide, the St. Mary's Gazette reported on Nov. 29, 1866.
Soldiers train in Benedict
Camp Stanton, named after the sitting secretary of war, opened in Benedict on Oct. 23, 1863, just three days after the White murder, and remained open until March 1864. Some 5,398 black men were trained and led by white officers there, Shomette found. Its establishment was another psychological message of dominance to Southern Maryland from the Union, and its recruits mainly came from the area, as well as the Eastern Shore, he said.
Those who joined came "to fight against slavery. This must have been a monumental feeling, hard to depose," he said. "These men go off to war and their record is tremendous." They fought in several theaters, fighting "equal to the white troops and in some cases better," he said.
In John Wearmouth's "Times of Port Tobacco," he wrote of the Nineteenth Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops, "the black soldiers from Maryland were among the first Union troops to enter the Confederate Capital at war's end."
Of those men from Camp Stanton, 1,226 died of disease, accidents or combat, Shomette said.
Over the decades, both Point Lookout and Camp Stanton were picked over by waves of relic hunters, Shomette said.
Much of the shoreline on the Chesapeake Bay side of Point Lookout has eroded since the prison closed in 1865, washing away where the Confederate encampment was. "At least half of the land is under water now," south of the causeway at Point Lookout, said Christy Bright, parks manager for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Erosion became a problem as early as 1869, when The Sun reported that some of the Confederate dead buried near the bay had become exposed. A local farmer, L.O. Smith, "has reinterred at his own expense fifty of the bodies," the paper reported.
In his book, Beitzell wrote that the original burial ground was moved in 1870 to a location south of Tanner Creek, where a state monument later would be erected. Two different state appropriations were made, to first move the bodies and then four years later to finish the cemetery. The remains were moved again in 1910 to the federal monument site in Scotland.
Another monument was established on adjacent property in 2008 by a private group, Confederate Memorial Park.
Last year, the Unified Committee for African American Contributions opened a memorial in Lexington Park to those from St. Mary's County who fought for the Union.


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Melt the ghee in a pan. Combine the oil in the melted ghee. Take the besan flour in a bowl and add a tablespoon of hot ghee in it and mix well. Now pass this through a sieve to ensure that there are no lumps. Keep this aside.
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Gaya cuisine starts with the simple philosophy that cooking is art: the menu is a gallery of sensual gustatory experience.
Gaya's chef subtly transforms the flavours and textures of the freshest Mediterranean and Asian ingredients into distinctively original dishes with a view toward bringing each ingredient to its maximum potential. With the exception of the most vivid Balinese and Indonesian dishes and some traditional Italian foods too perfected to change, the menu is a wholly original artistic creation.
Like a painter who prizes the quality of his pigment, Gaya uses clean-tasting herbs like rosemary, parsley, and basilicum (the basil in Bali is extraordinary) and the purest prepared olive oils; fish is delivered daily from Jimbaran, freshly caught that morning; grass-fed beef is flown in from Australia. Gaya takes pride in homemade foods — which include breads and grissini, most of their pasta, and all of their delicious desserts. There are few heavy sauces as the climate does not call for it.
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Fondue in Vermont at Stowe Mountain Lodge
After I finished my four year culinary apprenticeship I knew I was not ready for the real world. I decided to go to Europe and spend a year in Switzerland training with the best chefs I could find. The time I spent abroad made me the culinarian I am today, and one of the things I loved most about Europe was the cheese.
Christmas Cookies, Winter Desserts and Holiday Cheer in Stowe,Vermont
Christmas is the time for families to be together, celebrate having loved ones in our lives and for eating lots of delicious treats. One of those ways that families spend their time together over the holiday season is making Christmas cookies.
New Fitness Classes at Stowe Mountain Lodge
Looking for a fun and healthy activity while the family is out skiing? Try one of our new fitness classes at Stowe Mountain Lodge for this season. We will continue to offer our traditional classes, which include Indoor Cycling, Yoga, Morning Stretch and Strengthen the Core, but we also have several fun and innovative classes that are new to our daily line up!
Green Efforts Continue at Stowe Mountain Lodge
After a long day on the slopes or on our hiking trails, everyone wants to freshen up with a nice, long hot shower before dinner. One of the most challenging ways to conserve water is in the shower. Within our stewardship goals and a true commitment to our green efforts, we installed low flow shower heads in all the guest rooms. Unfortunately, due to the low flow, we received many complaints of not being able to rinse soap and shampoo off, showers taking twice as long, and general lack of pressure, due to the low flow of water. This we simply could not have for our valued guests.
Winter Weddings in Vermont's Winter Wonderland
Mid-December marks the beginning of a new wedding season--one filled with snowy backdrops and rich centerpieces surrounded by mercury glass and candlelight.
One of my favorite weeks of the year at Stowe Mountain Lodge is the second week in December. The crisp cold air of winter, the buzz and discussion of event-filled weeks ahead and the poinsettia tree gracefully positioned in the Lobby, welcoming the bride and groom to their winter wedding venue. It's a perfect scene for an unforgettable event.
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AUBURN – Alcoa has decided to shut down a northeastern Indiana factory after cutting hundreds of jobs there over the past decade.
The company announced Tuesday that the Auburn factory will end operations in March. The factory has 25 hourly and 18 salaried workers.
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United Steelworkers local president Chris Spillers tells The Star of Auburn that workers expected the factory might be closed because it was a large facility with little work.
Alcoa acquired the factory in the city about 40 miles north of Fort Wayne as part of a 2000 merger with Reynolds Metals Co.


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This Roasted Beet Salad is served with a tangy Mediterranean dressing inspired by a Greek Skordalia recipe I learned during travels. I just fell in love with the creamy sauce. It makes everything from pita chips to grilled vegetables taste better! Plus, beets are a great source of phytonutrients that support anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxification properties.
Roasted Beet Salad
6 baby beets or 1 bunch fresh regular beets, tops sliced off ½-inch above stem
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Serves 4.
Garlic Almond Dressing
3 slices rustic white bread, soaked in filtered water then squeezed dry with paper towels
Place the rustic bread slices into a food processor. Add red wine vinegar, garlic, lemon juice and pulse to thoroughly combine ingredients. Add salt, white pepper and almonds. Blend. While food processor runs on low speed, drizzle in olive oil until the mixture's consistency is creamy. Taste and adjust seasonings to your preference. Makes 2 cups. Dressing can be stored in an airtight container for approximately 5 days.
KosherEye is aware that many do not use almonds at Rosh Hashanah. For those readers, save this delicious recipe for Sukkot.


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Good article on the 2-meter rule on PDGA site. Turns out that Keith is a mad genius. Always wondered about the 2-meter rule and why he always includes in his events.
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The Community of Disc Golfers and About All Things Disc Golf
On New Years Day, I took my wife and daughter on a little day trip outside of Orlando to Lake Wales, FL to see the historic Bok Tower Gardens. The place was absolutely gorgeous. The gardens are top notch and the entire property is elevated on a hill. In fact, Lake Wales in general is nothing but hills. The property is riddled with little ponds tucked away in perfectly maintained gardens.. majestic oaks, fairways of all flavors, wooded, open and elevation galore (for Florida at least).
The ENTIRE time I was there I kept spotting the perfect basket locations and tee spots. I would joke with my wife around every corner that I wanted to go back to my car and grab my discs. Finally she got annoyed and asked me, "is that ALL you think about!?" and I simply shrugged my shoulders and sighed, "well, in a place like this? how can I think of anything else?" lol
I know it would probably never happen in a million years, but Bok Tower Gardens could host one of the neatest DG courses in Florida if allowed; hence the idea for this discussion.
I know I'm not alone here. How many of you have gone to a place that would likely never install a course but you can't help but daydream about teeing off and hearing chains the entire time you are there?
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Are you kidding I do that walking through the local mall. If I start in Target skirt the food court go through Dicks, J.C. Penny, Gander Mountain, and end in Sears I could have an awesome 18 hole par 3 course.
*sits down after a quick lunch break @ Debary>> Can you imagine the collateral damage in a shopping mall? That would give my Star Destroyer all new meaning to it's name. :-p
oh man.. @Bok Tower, back behind the historic house there.. that open field that goes downhill to a little pond.. We walked back there and didn't see a soul. If only I could sneak my practice basket down there off to the side where it wasn't too obvious. I would love to go up top that hill to one of the lookout points and throw a few down that long winding fairway. I'd get thrown out of there so fast! lol
My backyard,it would have to be a mini dgc.
Boc Towers has my vote for Fantasy DGC.
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Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Shot in the seedy Boyle Heights district in Los Angeles, InSight follows Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who while tending to a young stabbing victim, Allison, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that was being used to save the woman's life. Almost immediately she starts to experience the victim's memories. Kaitlyn turns to family, friends, and the police, but no one takes her seriously, so she takes it upon herself to solve the crime - as the terrifying visions threaten her sanity. Ultimately, Kaitlyn teams up with detective Peter Rafferty and weaves her way through the victim's past in an attempt to discover the brutal truth about the murder and herself.
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Adam Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Angeline-Rose Troy
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Book your room at Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade
Deluxe Double Room, 2 Double Beds, AccessibleMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Deluxe Double Room (2 Queen Beds)Max Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Deluxe Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
Premier Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Get an overview of this hotelEuropean décor in the heart of San Antonio
Near airport
This suburban San Antonio hotel is adjacent to The Colonnade, a 66-acre dining and shopping complex, 3 miles from Six Flags Fiesta Texas, 5 miles from The Shops at La Cantera and 9 miles from the Riverwalk. The San Antonio airport is 8 miles away.
Business center
Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade has 23,000 square feet of event space with high-speed Internet access available, and a business center with copy and fax machines and wireless Internet access.
Wireless Internet
Guestrooms at this San Antonio hotel have antique-style furniture with wrought-iron accents. Rooms have bathrobes and deep tubs with shower massagers. Wireless Internet access is available (surcharge).Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade has an indoor splash pool surrounded by lush tropical greenery and a coed dry sauna. Outside is a large unheated lap pool with lounge chairs and a spa tub. The mirrored fitness center has a spa tub, cardio and weight machines, free weights, yoga mats, exercise balls, complimentary fruit and juice, TVs, and purified water. The hotel also offers a Get Fit Kit for in-room exercise. Massage therapy is available by appointment for a fee.
The hotel offers 23,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including three ballrooms and 15 meeting and conference rooms. The Colonnade Ballroom, located on the 20th floor, has floor-to-ceiling windows with an impressive view of the San Antonio skyline. All meeting venues have data ports, and technical assistants can provide high-speed Internet access upon request. The business center is self-serve and includes photocopy and fax machines, as well as a computer with wireless Internet access. Wireless and wired Internet is also available throughout the lobby (surcharge), the hotel's restaurant and bar, and the pool area. Complimentary roundtrip airport shuttle service is available during limited hours.
The Omni Kids Program includes interactive Web pages; rolling backpacks filled with puzzles, games, and books; a jumbo activity book and crayons, and kid-themed menus in the restaurant.
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Indoor pool
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Health club
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Free airport transportation
- Meeting rooms
- Conference space
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 326
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Television in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 23,000
- Conference space size (meters) - 2137
- Number of meeting rooms - 15
- Smoke-free property
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 9.95 USD per day ), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( 9.95 USD per day ), Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
Free self parking, Valet parking (surcharge), Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- In-room massage available
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Room service (24 hours)
Where to Eat
Bolo's Rotisserie Grille - This casual restaurant has a Western theme with old photos and Wild West memorabilia. Breakfast includes an omelet bar and hot buffet. Lunch offers a made-to-order pasta bar along with sandwiches, salads, and soups. The dinner menu offers tortilla soup, designer pizzas, seafood, duck, beef, and game meats. The signature dessert is Bolo's banana bread pudding. Open every day from early morning to late evening, closed between lunch and dinner. Accommodates room service requests during limited hours.
Afterthought Bar - This piano bar has paneled walls, deep turquoise Queen Anne-style chairs, and a low granite-topped bar with a line of comfy red leather chairs. The bar offers lighter dining options, hors d'oeuvres, over 30 wines by the glass, and is host to the hotel's Sunday brunch.
Nearby Things to Do
Fitness options for guests include an indoor splash pool surrounded by lush tropical greenery and a coed dry sauna nearby. The large outdoor unheated lap pool has plenty of lounge chairs and a spa tub. The roomy mirrored fitness center has a spa tub, cardio and weight machines, free weights, yoga mats, exercise balls, complimentary fruit and juice, TVs, and purified water. For guests who prefer to exercise in their rooms, the hotel offers a Get Fit Kit, consisting of a floor mat, dumbbells, and elastic bands. There is also an in-house masseuse available by appointment (surcharge). For runners, there is a jogging path throughout Colonnade Center; maps are available at the front desk.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
Spa Services
- Massages
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Breakfast fee: USD 17.0 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 9.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 12 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 50.00 per accommodation, per stay
- Pet deposit: USD 50.00 per stay
- Deposit: USD 50.00 per day
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Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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Nashville, Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile DownMore Albums by Marty Stuart
Track Listing
01. Tear The Woodpile Down
02. Sundown in Nashville
03. A Matter of Time
04. Hollywood Boogie
05. Holding On To Nothing
06. Truck Driver's Blues
07. Going, Going, Gone
08. The Lonely Kind
09. A Song of Sadness
10. Picture From Life's Other Side
Produced by Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Kenny Vaughan – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Harry Stinson – drums, snare, tambourine
Paul Martin – electric bass, upright bass, tic tac guitar, piano, organ
Gary Carter– steel guitar
Robby Turner – steel guitar
Kenny Lovelace – fiddle
Hank Singer - fiddle
Buck Trent – banjo
Hank III – acoustic guitar
Brian Glenn - bass
Vocals: Marty Stuart, Harry Stinson, Paul Martin, Lorrie Bennett, Hank III, Brian Glenn
GRAMMY-winner and American music icon Marty Stuart will release his second album for Sugar Hill Records entitled Nashville, Volume 1: Tear The Woodpile Down on April 24th. The ten song collection, almost entirely written by Marty, features his touring band of musical missionaries The Fabulous Superlatives. Nashville staples Buck Trent, Kenny Lovelace, and Robbie Turner are joined by country music royalty Hank Williams III and Lorrie Carter Bennett (The Carter Family) on harmony vocals to fill out the cast.
Marty Stuart arrived in Nashville on Labor Day weekend, 1972. "I came to Nashville from the land of Jimmie Rodgers, looking for a place, a place to belong inside the world of country music. It was a country boy Hollywood, the air castle of the South, a dream factory." 40 years, a decade worth of hits and a full round of hillbilly stardom later, Stuart has hillbilly rocked himself back to the bosom of traditional country music.
"When I reconnected with traditional country music I found myself, my calling," says Stuart. "The kind that is timeless, beautiful, beyond trend, the empowering force, the reflection of a people and a culture. The kind of country music that the working man and scholars alike call home. The job seemed to be to champion it, love it, protect it, care for its people, attempt to write a new chapter for it and to make sure that everybody understands that it's alive and well in the 21st century."


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Drama, Romance
This politically charged and emotionally powerful thriller follows a successful businessman who suddenly finds his life turned upside down when his journalist daughter goes missing during her trip to his hometown of Damascus. He knows that the reason for his exile is tied to his daughter's disappearance. His first trip home in over 30 years turns into a frantic quest to rescue his daughter while reconnecting with the love of his life.
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Oded Fehr, Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Saad Siddiqui
Produced by: Daniel Iron, Lance Samuels
Directed by: Ruba Nadda
Written by: Ruba Nadda
Running time: 1hr 33min
Opens: Feb 22, 2013 NY/LA
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Men's golf opens fall season at Carpet Capital Collegiate on Friday
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
(September 9, 2010) -
The ETSU men's golf season is ready to get underway with one of the most prestigious events on the yearly calendar, the Carpet Capital Collegiate. The annual event is played at The Farm Golf Club, just outside Dalton, Georgia and will begin Friday morning and end on Sunday with 18 holes per day.
The Carpet Capital is always a who's who of college golf. This year's field of 12 includes four teams that competed in the 2010 NCAA Championship (Clemson, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Texas Tech) at The Honors Course, while all 12 squads earned regional qualification. Also, 11 of the 12 schools in the field are ranked in the top-40 of the Golf World/Nike Golf preseason coaches' poll. Georgia is the highest school ranked in the field as they come in with a No. 4 national ranking. The Bucs are looking for their first victory in the event although former ETSU All-American
Rhys Davies
(Bridgend, Wales) won individual medalist honors back in 2004. Tennessee is the defending team champion.
Additionally, the tournament will feature three of the top-10 players in the country. That list includes No. 3 Russell Henley of Georgia, No. 5 Blayne Barber of Auburn, and No. 8 Bud Cauley of Alabama.
The Bucs are coming off a year in which they reached postseason play for the 22
time in school history. They also won the Atlantic Sun Championship for the second time in school history. They are ranked No. 32 in the preseason Golf World/Nike Golf coaches' poll.
It was another good summer for the Bucs as they earned plenty of awards and recognition. For their efforts in the classroom, they earned President's Special Recognition status by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA). Also,
Paul O'Kane
(Castledawson, Northern Ireland),
Rhys Enoch
(Cornwall, England) and
Seamus Power
(Waterford, Ireland) were named Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars.
Enoch enjoyed a very successful summer full of competition as he played in two very prestigious amateur events. First, he qualified for the British Amateur. Enoch made it all the way to the quarterfinals of match play in the event. Then, he was named and played on the European Palmer Cup team.
Stretching back to 1997, the Palmer Cup is a Ryder Cup style competition that pits the best collegiate players from Europe against the best from the United States.
Enoch was also named Atlantic Sun First-Team All-Conference for the third time. He also earned Ping All-American honors and Ping All-Region honors after sharing medalist honors at the NCAA East Regional. He also finished first on the team with a 72.3 stroke average for the season. He was recently named as one of the top-50 players to watch by Golf World.
ETSU returns four players from a year ago including Enoch, O'Kane,
Peter Wilson
(Locust Valley, N.Y.), and
Devin Komline
(Dorset, Vt.). The Bucs have also added two fresh faces to the squad.
Spencer Lawson
(Raleigh, N.C.) and
Patrick Spraggs
(Rochford, England) are both very talented players that have joined the team for this season.
Lawson just recently qualified and participated in the U.S. Amateur Championship at Chambers Bay in Washington, while Spraggs was teammates with Enoch on the European Palmer Cup team.
Fans can follow all the action from the 7,012 yard, Par-72 layout via Live Stats at GolfStat.com.
For more information on the ETSU men's golf team please go to ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's golf link.
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No. 15 Alabama, No. 18 Auburn, Chattanooga, No. 17 Clemson, No. 32 East Tennessee State, No. 4 Georgia, No. 10 Georgia Tech, No. 33 Ole Miss, No. 24 South Carolina, No. 27 Tennessee, No. 21 Texas Tech, No. 39 Wake Forest
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En español | Ask anyone what's wrong with the medical profession and you'll hear a long list of complaints: Too many pricey medications. Forever behind schedule. Always talks, never listens. Rushes me in and out of the examining room.
But people rarely hear what bugs doctors about patients. Their gripes are generally aired as doctors walk the hallways at medical meetings or chat behind closed doors at conferences. Here's your chance to find out what annoys your doctor.
1. You don't arrive on time
"It drives [some] doctors crazy when patients turn up late for an appointment," says Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "You can see the irony in that because patients almost always have to wait to see their doctor." But quite often the reason you're left twiddling your thumbs is that someone who didn't arrive on time messed up the schedule. "If you come in late, I can almost guarantee that your doctor won't feel as happy toward you as if you'd been on time," she continues. Some doctors tolerate late arrivals better than others, but no one likes it.
Here's a tip: Ask for the first appointment of the day, so you won't get caught up in other things before the appointment. This also works in the reverse — for doctors who always make you wait.
2. You treat your doctor's office as your personal assistant
"Some patients want you to take responsibility for running their lives," says Dennis Cope, M.D., of the UCLA Department of Medicine. "I saw a woman recently who had to make arrangements to get to another medical appointment. She decided transportation was a medical problem and asked the staff to organize it. That's inappropriate."
People who expected his assistant to run down and put money in the parking meter irked retired dentist Richard Price, former clinical instructor at the Boston University School of Dental Medicine. Even more outlandish, "one woman assumed I would pay her parking ticket because the meter ran out before I had finished treating her," he says.
Here's a tip: If the problem doesn't directly involve your health, don't make it your doctor's or dentist's responsibility.
3. You don't admit that you're not taking your medicine
Doctors become irritated with patients who don't take their medications. They don't know that their patients may not understand the directions, believe the drugs aren't working, experienced severe side effects or can't get to the pharmacy to fill the prescription.
New York University Medical Center cardiologist Richard Stein, M.D., says he has some patients who listen carefully, fill their prescriptions and then take exactly half as much as they should.
"If you don't tell me that you've cut the dose, I have to assume either that the medicine isn't working, in which case I'll switch you to a different one, or that the dose is too low, in which case I'll increase it," Stein continues. Neither choice solves the problem.
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I have been having problems getting my system to heat the water up on my gas fired central heating system.
I have an open vented system, with hot water tank (not a Combi).
We have a control panel that allows the system to be, OFF completely, ON water only or ON Water and Heating with timer attached.
The feed into the hot water tank gets scoldingly hot, but the return out is cold, this is very close to the cold feed from the feeder, expansion tank.
I have drained the system down, put a cleaner through the system and flushed out all the pipes.
This afternoon after completing the flush and bleeding the air out of the system, ensuring that all the radiators worked, the return from the hot water tank got warmer than it had been, when the system was set to ON water only, when I set it to ON Water and Heating and switched every radiator off individually the return from the hot water tank got really hot,this is what I believe it should be like when it is ON Water only.
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Venue: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
Circuit Length: 4.361 Km
Laps: 70
Lap Record: 1:13.622 = 213.246 km/h - Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari) 2004
Odd note:
What can you do in four hours and five minutes or so? If you're Jenson Button you can win the longest race in Formula 1 history. It happened two years ago when Montreal's notoriously fickle weather saw the race red-flagged after 24 laps; there was an interminable delay while it cleared, then the race was re-started for the remaining 46 laps. To be precise, 4h 4m 39.537s was how long it took Button to win for the third time as a McLaren driver. "Coming through from last to first really does show that anything's possible in Formula 1," he says – but don't expect another McLaren miracle this time.
The Track:
Named after one of F1's most popular figures, the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is almost as challenging as the last venue, Monaco. Like Melbourne, it's a semi-street circuit where the barriers can appear intimidatingly close, nowhere more so than in the final chicane with its infamous 'Wall of Champions'. There are 14 changes of direction, let's say, rather than clearly-defined corners: Montreal is a set of straights joined by chicanes and a hairpin at either end. "It's a race that can reward a fighter because it's often so unpredictable," says McLaren's Sergio Pérez.
Q 1: In which year did Gilles Villeneuve win on the track named after him? Answer below.
What's unusual?
Montreal brings the fiercest challenge of the year for F1 braking systems. There are seven 'braking events', to use modern jargon, six of them requiring the cars to slow from over 250 km/h. About 13% of the lap is spent on the brakes, with no fast, sweeping corners to speak of, and it remains pretty bumpy, especially on the way into Turns 8 and 10. To quote Martin Whitmarsh, CEO of nine-time Montreal winners McLaren: "It's a showcase for F1 at its best – the track has a natural flow that encourages bold driving, but which punishes mistakes with narrow run-offs and uncompromising concrete walls. The track surface is abrasive and relatively gripless, and the long back straight is perfect for lengthy slipstreaming battles and overtaking."
Who's hot?
Nico Rosberg is the most obvious answer to that question. Three poles in a row, his second victory in commanding style at Monaco – the German, soon to turn 28, can do no wrong right now, as his gunfighter swagger showed when he got out of the cockpit at the end of the Monaco race. His best result in Canada is sixth in 2010 and 2012, mind you, so he will be looking to correct that record this weekend. And the downside is that his Mercedes team is being hauled before an FIA International Tribunal to explain its 'secret' tyre test after the Barcelona race, so we'll be keeping a close watch on that situation.
Also on the up-and-up are Force India, fresh from a double points finish of their own in Monte Carlo. "The race in Monaco showed the sheer class of our two drivers," says VJ Mallya, "and probably helped silence some critics of the team. I think we are now knocking on the door of our first podium finish since 2009, and it's time to do that all-important step." The team has made steady progress since its debut season under these colours in 2008, when it failed to score a point. Since then it's been ninth, seventh, sixth and seventh, with 109 points in all last year. There are 44 on the board already this season from less than a third of the races – and this one will be the 100th for Force India.
Q 2: Who took that first podium for Force India, and where? Answer below.
Pirelli's ears will certainly be hot as people in F1 seem to be talking of nothing else these days. Now the Italian company is bringing 'experimental' medium tyres with a new rear construction to Canada for each driver to try out in the two Friday free practice sessions. Depending on the reactions, they will be introduced from the British round onwards. Otherwise Canada will see the teams use the P Zero White (medium) as the Prime and the P Zero Red (super soft) as the Option this weekend.
Who's not?
Strangely enough, it's early pacemakers Lotus – remember how Kimi won in Melbourne? – who are under the microscope at the moment. Raïkkönen slumped to 10th in Monaco, not helped by the attentions of S. Pérez, and is now 21 points adrift of leader Vettel, but he has a previous Montreal victory on his record (for McLaren in 2005) and he likes the place. "No-one wants to lose so many points thanks to the actions of another driver, but that race is over; Monaco is just a distant memory and I'm all ready for Canada," the Finn insists. "Like at every circuit you need to get the set-up exactly right. You need a well-balanced chassis in the medium downforce configuration and you don't want to be too hard on brakes as there's a lot of aggressive braking there. It's something I quite enjoy, the stop and go style of the circuit."
Teammate Romain Grosjean comes to Montreal under a real cloud following multiple pile-ups in Monaco, not least the one that eliminated Dan Ricciardo. He was second here last year, but team boss Eric Boullier will be looking for signs of a lesson learned – again – by his French driver and the team as a whole. "As long as Monaco was just a minor blip – and there's nothing to suggest that it wasn't – there's no evidence to suggest we can't return to consistently strong performances and be back in the reckoning for big points," says Boullier. "One bad race in nineteen doesn't define your Championship; we just need to ensure that we don't have another weekend like Monaco."
Felipe Massa will have a new chassis after wrecking his 'old' Ferrari in two monumental shunts in Monaco. According to the team it wasn't the driver who went cold, at least not in the race: they say a suspension issue showed up when he went into the Ste. Dévote barriers for the second time in as many days but Stefano Domenicali insists it was "an isolated incident".
2012 Results
Pole Position:
Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing); 1:13.784 = 212.777 km/h
1st: Lewis Hamilton (Vodafone McLaren Mercedes) 1:32.29.586
2nd: Romain Grosjean (Lotus F1 Team), gap 2.513s
3rd: Sergio Perez (Sauber F1 Team), gap 5.260s
Fastest Lap: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing); 1:15.752 = 207.249 km/h on Lap 70
Webber / Ricciardo Watch
Mark says in his preview remarks that he's never been on the Montreal podium – but he has! He was third in 2011, the infamous 'long race'. He's been on the front row just once in 10 visits. Last year was Dan Ricciardo's first Canadian GP: he qualified 14th and that's where he brought the Toro Rosso home.
A 1: it was the first year they raced on the island in the St Lawrence, 1978, and of course he did it in a Ferrari
A 2: Giancarlo Fisichella finished second in the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix.


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12 Oct 2007
|Fall Foliage Photographs
(c) Judith Lombardi Golden Acres Photography
There must be a billion photographs of Vermont fall foliage, mostly taken by us amateurs but there are some professionally taken examples that accurately render the scenes we saw but perhaps did not photograph too well.
One place to find excellent photos is at the fall foliage page on the Golden Acres website.
Golden Acres is the photography business run by Judy Lombardi of White River Junction, VT. She photographs mostly nature subjects which you can see on her beautiful web site.
Put a photo on your wall and you can enjoy a little of the magnificence of Vermont fall foliage year around!
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18 Sep 2007
|Two Great VT Products for Winter
Beagle Tracker Jacket
If you will be traveling to Vermont in the next few months, take a look at your winter jacket before you come. If that old coat has already lead a full, productive life, maybe it's time to retire it and start looking for a replacement. Or, if you are all set for another winter, maybe you are looking for unique gift ideas.
I have a couple of suggestions for two very high quality Vermont made products. Conveniently, their stores are only a few miles apart in northern Vermont (map).
Most every outdoors person in this state has probably owned a Johnson Woolen Mills product and probably still has one or two. The company has been around for 165 years and it is a traditional favorite of Vermonters, especially hunters and loggers. The company not only makes its products in the USA, they make them here in Vermont. Anyone who has ever spent time with the average Vermont worker will agree that the word that best describes these people is "solid." They work steadily and are quietly proud of what they do. But they're nonchalant about it too as if being proud is too close to being boastful.
In addition to jackets, Johnson Woolen Mills is known for its long-lasting woolen pants and hats, capes and ponchos, handbags, and more.
Coincidently, the company has a store in a village named Johnson. It is in the middle of town, on Route 15 (click map link above).
If Johnson Woolen Mills is "old school," Beagle Outdoor Wear is the high tech version. Their outdoor coats and other gear are treated with the latest in waterproofing technology:
"1. Beagle outerwear is made from very tightly woven wool, treated with DuPont Teflon® fabric protector, so water beads up and rolls right off!
"2. Most products are available with FABTEX®-5X, a thin layer of breathable laminate, which stops wind and water from passing through.
"3. For cold weather, choose our MICROTHERM© lined models. Besides the extra warmth, it also wicks moisture away from your skin, keeping you toasty warm and dry."
Both companies have an excellent reputation in Vermont and their products are WARM, even in the middle of a Vermont winter.
Johnson Woolen Mills Boston Bag
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor [except product photos which are owned by the respective companies] Grunberg Haus
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15 Aug 2007
|Vermont Holiday Cards
A Vermont holiday card created by a Vermont artist featuring a Vermont scene .
About an hour south of our inn, there is an artist who works in a small cottage producing richly detailed holiday cards that have a charming nostalgic look.
Mike Biegel, and cat Piper, live and work together near the village of Sharon. Mike produces a line of holiday cards to bring in some money to fund his ski habit and Piper's food habit.
You can see his full line of Vermont-inspired cards, and purchase them too, online at Vermont Holiday Cards and Holiday Cards Online.
Mike also has a web site for his commercial illustration work at mikebiegel.com.
Mailboxes across the country have already been filling with fall catalogs, and the Christmas holiday catalogs are not far behind. The more responsible of you reading this will probably be lining up your winter holiday card purchases soon so I thought I would get his posted now. For people like me, there will be a reminder on this blog in November.
Mike accepts assignments for custom work too. You can contact the artist directly at 802.763.7769 or toll free at 888.267.2300, or by email to mike{insert the "at" sign here]vermontholidaycards.com
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus
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21 Jul 2007
|"Ya Girl" Outdoor Clothing Made By and For Women
When I was in high school, I worked a few summers at the local J.C. Penney store. That was decades ago and, believe it or not, blue jeans for girls were just coming into fashion. I remember a number of high school and college girls strolling right into the men's clothing department to see if they could find a pair of jeans that would fit. Unfortunately, either the waist or the hips would fit but rarely both. It wasn't long before the manufacturers woke up and started producing jeans cut to fit women's bodies.
All that came back to mind when I came across Ya Girl work pants. These are tough, duck cloth work pants manufactured to meet the demands of outdoors activities such as hiking, farming, and gardening, while fitting the female body.
These rugged pants are made in the most rugged part of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. It's a beautiful part of the state with a hardy environment. The people who live there are just as hardy (but friendly!) and most of them make their living outdoors. They need clothing that will stand up to a challenging environment and harsh work conditions.
"Ya Girl" clothing is designed, riveted, and sewn by women in Vermont. The next time you travel to Vermont, you can find them at Addison Outfitters in Vergennes, Middlebury Mountaineering in Middlebury, Outdoor Gear Exchange in Burlington, and The Pick and Shovel in Newport. Or order directly from the company's online store.
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11 Jul 2007
|Vermont Gift Idea for Skiers
Magic Mountain Red Chairs Now on Sale
Here is a perfect gift for skiers: a chair lift swing from Magic Mountain in Londonderry Vermont. At $500 plus shipping, it's a little pricey I suppose but it does have the swing frame and a coat of fresh red paint or other color if you wish. Considering what skiers spend on their sport, this is a bargain. And of course, you have to add in the cool factor. The swing even comes with a double black diamond Red Line sign.
Earlier this year, Mad River Glen was selling its historic single chairs at auction for a minimum of $1000 each so with Magic Mountain's chairs you are getting twice the chair for half the price!
As they say, you'll be the only one in your neighborhood with a chair lift swing. Heck, you might even be the only one in your state.
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor
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14 Apr 2007
|Two Old Saps Vermont Maple Syrup Producers
Vermont Grade A Dark Amber Maple Syrup - our favorite
We go through about 12 gallons of maple syrup per year at our inn. We were buying it from some neighbors but their evaporator pan (used to boil down the sap to make syrup) cracked and they don't have the money to get another one. Further, they "aren't getting any younger" and are therefore thinking this is a good time to retire from the hard work of making VT maple syrup. We had to locate another supplier and after several phone calls, we found the best price at Two Old Saps in Lincoln Vermont, about 30 minutes south of Burlington in northwestern Vermont
I met Paul, one of the saps, the other day and had a nice chat along with getting a look at their sizable sugar house where they boil down sap from 2,000 maple tree taps. A neighbor of theirs was also dropping off some of his sap when I drove up.
You can't order online at their website but they do have a toll free phone number: 1-877-683-0269. If you are in the area, you can stop by for a visit but be forewarned that a normal car (i.e., low and two wheel drive) probably won't make it up their long dirt road that goes fairly deep into the forest. If you have a four wheel or all wheel drive, you shouldn't have much of a problem but the driving will be slow because of either the frozen ruts or mud depending upon the weather that day. That's just the way it is during Vermont's sugaring season.
You can read more about the different grades of Vermont maple syrup at the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association website.
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor
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Saturday, February 22, 2003Bristol, Tenn. (Feb. 22, 2003) - East Tennessee State's men's tennis team lost its fourth straight match of the early 2003 season to a ranked team Saturday afternoon at the Bristol Racquet and Fitness Club. ETSU (2-4) began the day by dropping three doubles matches to the 68th-ranked Blazers, who improve their overall record to 5-3. UAB's Kristijan Mitrovski and Bastian Gruendler defeated the No. 1 doubles team of Alejandro Salazar (Arequipa, Peru) and Marcos Pavlovich (Otamendi, Argentina), 8-4. Andre Maier and Dino Mancarella then knocked off the Buccaneer duo of Diego Iglesias (Mar del Plata, Argentina) and Fernando Fiuri (Villa Maria, Argentina), 8-5, before Moises Serrano (Bucaramanga, Colombia) and Federico Ochoa (Manizales, Colombia) lost 8-6 to the Blazer's Patrick Suhrbier and Sansaruz Zaman. Salazar picked up ETSU's only win of the day with a 6-2, 6-0 decision over Ivan Andreev at No. 2 singles. At the No. 1 slot, Pavlovich suffered a 7-6, 6-3 loss to UAB's Gruendler. In No. 3 singles action, Iglesias fell 7-6, 6-1 to Andre Maier. Mitrovski then defeated Buccaneer senior Francisco Diaz (Weston, Fla.) at No. 4 singles, 6-2, 6-3. Suhrbier beat ETSU's lone newcomer Fernando Fiuri, 7-6, 6-3 in the fifth slot, and at No. 6 Serrano lost to UAB's Dino Mancarella, 6-4, 6-2. "UAB is a very solid team and they are well balanced," said ETSU head coach Yaser Zaatini. "I think we are not close to where we need to be right now. We are dealing with a tough start and are struggling to get in sync. We just need to play with more heart." ETSU returns to the court Monday, Feb. 24, to take on No. 75 Old Dominion beginning at 9 a.m. at the Bristol Racquet and Fitness Club. Old Dominion will be in town Sunday to face UAB at the same venue starting promptly at 9:30 a.m. No. 68 UAB 6, East Tennessee State 1 Singles 1.) Bastian Gruendler (UAB) def. Marcos Pavlovich (ETSU), 7-6, 6-3 2.) Alejandro Salazar (ETSU) def. Ivan Andreev (UAB) 6-2, 6-0 3.) Andre Maier (UAB) def. Diego Iglesias (ETSU), 7-6, 6-1 4.) Kristijan Mitrovski (UAB) def. Francisco Diaz (ETSU), 6-2, 6-3 5.) Patrick Suhrbier (UAB) def. Fernando Fiuri (ETSU), 7-6, 6-3 6) Dino Mancarella (UAB) def. Moises Serrano (ETSU), 6-4, 6-2 Doubles 1.) Mitrovski/Gruendler (UAB) def. Salazar/Pavlovich (ETSU), 8-4 2.) Maier/Mancarella (UAB) def. Iglesias/Fiuri (ETSU), 8-5 3.) Suhrbier/Zaman (UAB) def. Serrano/Ochoa (ETSU), 8-6
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