A Bit Of A History Lesson
Dear Friend,
I'm looking out the windows of our 106 year old Victorian tea room and watching the snow fly today! The temperatures have been a chilly 18 degrees for our high and we have had them drop to zero in the frigid evenings. It's the perfect weather for a hot pot of tea! My favorite by far, Darjeeling! Though our Cranberry Clementine we ordered for Christmas is a close second.
I try to imagine how this home once was filled with hoop skirts and petite coats and with well mannered gents and their horses in the backyard. The first Chief of Police in Johnson City resided here with his seven children and the family has returned many times to share photos, scrapbooks and stories of sliding down the curved oak bannisters and watching the coal get delivered to heat the seven fireplaces.
We have tried to preserve a bit of the history of our area by incorporating historic events and places on our new lunch menu. You'll find references to Jobe's Opera House, The Burly Bowl which was an annual parade and football game hosted by the tobacco farmers, and the Montrose Court- an alleged hangout of Al Capone who was known to frequent this area. "Thunder Road" was a moonshine run just adjacent to our tea room during the days of prohibition and was made famous by Robert Mitchum's movie. We have a very colorful history indeed!
We will be embracing history and hopefully some warmer weather with our Tea Academy in Savannah Georgia scheduled for May 28-30th and May 31- June 2nd, 2010. Participants will not only learn about tea, business courses and our four "Secrets of the Tea Room" cooking class, but will also have some time to explore Savannah from her historic squares, fountains and monuments to modern day Paula Deen's "Lady & Sons" Restaurant. There's lots to do including fine dining, shopping or take a "Ghost Tour!" Savannah is rumored to be haunted by Civil War ghosts as well as a few characters from a little book that put it on the map- "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil." Won't you join us?!!!!
Here's dreaming of warmer weather, good tea and good friends!
Until Our Next Pot of Tea,
Melanie
I'm looking out the windows of our 106 year old Victorian tea room and watching the snow fly today! The temperatures have been a chilly 18 degrees for our high and we have had them drop to zero in the frigid evenings. It's the perfect weather for a hot pot of tea! My favorite by far, Darjeeling! Though our Cranberry Clementine we ordered for Christmas is a close second.
I try to imagine how this home once was filled with hoop skirts and petite coats and with well mannered gents and their horses in the backyard. The first Chief of Police in Johnson City resided here with his seven children and the family has returned many times to share photos, scrapbooks and stories of sliding down the curved oak bannisters and watching the coal get delivered to heat the seven fireplaces.
We have tried to preserve a bit of the history of our area by incorporating historic events and places on our new lunch menu. You'll find references to Jobe's Opera House, The Burly Bowl which was an annual parade and football game hosted by the tobacco farmers, and the Montrose Court- an alleged hangout of Al Capone who was known to frequent this area. "Thunder Road" was a moonshine run just adjacent to our tea room during the days of prohibition and was made famous by Robert Mitchum's movie. We have a very colorful history indeed!
We will be embracing history and hopefully some warmer weather with our Tea Academy in Savannah Georgia scheduled for May 28-30th and May 31- June 2nd, 2010. Participants will not only learn about tea, business courses and our four "Secrets of the Tea Room" cooking class, but will also have some time to explore Savannah from her historic squares, fountains and monuments to modern day Paula Deen's "Lady & Sons" Restaurant. There's lots to do including fine dining, shopping or take a "Ghost Tour!" Savannah is rumored to be haunted by Civil War ghosts as well as a few characters from a little book that put it on the map- "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil." Won't you join us?!!!!
Here's dreaming of warmer weather, good tea and good friends!
Until Our Next Pot of Tea,
Melanie
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