A Step Back in Time – Dills Tavern
An Evening at the Historic Dill’s Tavern Dillsburg, PA We spent an evening of music and good eats with Historic Carlisle Friends at Dill’s Tavern and former plantation, an early PA business venture of Matthew Dill and family. The Dill family maintained a tavern in the Dillsburg area beginning in the 1750’s and this final […]
GOLD rush at the Carlisle House!
Dave Wottle 1972 800m Olympic Gold Medalist We were most honored to have Dave Wottle as our guest during his visit to Dickinson College yesterday. At breakfast this morning, Dave was kind enough to share not only his amazing race story with the guests, but also, at our coaxing, brought out his Gold medal…a […]
Mr & Mrs Keith Gebhart
February 26, 2011
Wedding Celebrants in the House
Happy Everywhere! What an exciting and happy weekend we had here with Brienne and Keith! Our Carlisle House was filled with all their families and friends for their big wedding celebration in the Historic District. They dined at our favorite, Piatto, Friday after the rehearsal and were married today at the oldCarlisle Ribbon Mill. Maybe […]
Tubby Kohler claims “I’ve been framed!”
Chief of Detectives Carlisle House was bubbling over with excitement today when he announced that Tubby Kohler had been placed in custody along with his shower of associates. Chief House was even more pleased just a couple of hours later when Tubby’s plea of insanity (he said he’d lost his marbles) was rejected as it […]
Tomayto, Tomahto…
Being English I often find myself pronouncing words differently from Americans. I assure them that it is actually my language, usually to hear the response that there are more Americans than English now, so that makes it THEIR language now. Be that as it may, there are one or two pronunciations that we can all […]
Clawfoot and the Boyz
The Lonely Loo in an earlier blog post was left alone when Clawfoot the Tub decided to go out with the Boyz and leave the bathroom for ever. The “Boyz” in this case were Michael “Six-pack” Blumenthal and Alan “Six-pack? Mine’s a keg!” Duxbury. We manhandled the old cast-iron tub down the stairs and out […]
Two for one update
Don’t get excited! You have to wait for January and our annual “Two Nights for the Price of One” Cabin Fever Promotion!No, this post is to give you quick updates on Flat Frosty from the last post, and the Lonely Loo from the previous one.Before leaving PA to fly back to Virginia (or however the […]
A strange, but somehow interesting guest…
Thanks to our granddaughter, Ryleigh, we had a guest last week whose name was “Flat Frosty” the Snowman. Frosty visited us to see how the weather in PA was different from the weather in VA. He chose a great week to visit and took lots of facts and memories back to Ryleigh’s class! For once, […]
The Lonely Loo
Is there anything sadder than a Lonely Loo? Those of you who have stayed in our Rose Room may recognize the bathroom – or rather the “missing bath” room! Yes, I was heard to say that the winter months were quieter at the Carlisle House and wouldn’t it be nice if we could do one […]