Join the Edgefield Gardeners this, Sunday, May 9, for our annual Mother’s Day Plant Sale.
Throughout the year, the gardeners prepare for our plant sales — collecting seeds, dividing perennials, rescuing tree and shrub seedlings from being discarded to the compost pile.
I’ll begin the blogs I post about McMenamins’ gardens by chatting about the most recent larger garden addition to the Kennedy School. It is also my personal favorite.
Over the weekend of April 24 and 25, check out this fun wine-related event…
Spring on 47 – A Weekend of Wine Tasting
On April 24 and 25, sip your way through an array of wineries and even a saké brewery along Highway 47 in the Northern Willamette Valley before making your way to the Grand Lodge for rest and relaxation.
Read MoreMcMenamins artist Lyle Hehn’s sweet depiction of Olevia Ireland’s Dancing Academy features fun characters from Hotel Oregon’s past as well as that of the Crystal Ballroom, since the delightful Miss Ireland graced both places over her career.
Miss Olevia Ireland arrived in Portland around 1909 and first worked as an actress. By 1913, she had given up the theater, taking a position as a dance instructor at Montrose Ringler’s Dreamland Academy (located at SW 2nd and Morrison). Miss Ireland and fellow Dreamland instructor, Norman Whiting, gave exhibition dances together as partners on various stages around the city. Ireland and Whiting were among those who introduced to Portland the Tango, Hesitation Waltz and One-Step.
I was closing in on the grand finale of the Blue Cheer painting and having a lot of fun with the panel when we got a message from the management at Old St. Francis School hotel in Bend, Ore., that a painting in the lobby of the theater had been keyed, or vandalized.
This company has been built on the special talents of many.
Sadly, we have lost some of these bright lights over the years.
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It seems like over the past few years, when spring rolls in, I find myself back out atEdgefield. It is a good time of year to work on odds and ends of art projects to help get the property spruced up for the summer, the busiest time of year.
After the usual false starts and frustrated erasures, the local radio station began to play some rousing music, and it all fell together.
Our very own Kennedy School got a cool shout-out today, on TripAdvisor.com. We were named the #1 Quirkiest Hotel in the U.S.!
Read MoreSure, you may have done impromptu tequila tastings at a bar – salt, slam it back, lemon, you’re pretty, what was your name again? – but at our spirits tastings, it’s actually not about, well, getting tipsy. We want you to know the tequila, understand the tequila, love it for what it is! Because tequila really gets a bad rap. It ain’t just for Spring Break, friends. (But chances are you will leave a bit tipsy…)
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