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Post by Graveyardbride on Apr 8, 2016 6:09:10 GMT -5
These are photos of the Asticou Inn where we will be staying in Maine. The first photo shows the front of the inn, the second is the rear of the inn, which faces the water, and the third shows the inn as it looks from the water.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Apr 8, 2016 6:13:51 GMT -5
Asticou Inn (cont.): The first photo is the lobby, the second is the dining room, and the third is one of the bedrooms in the main inn that we've reserved. The rooms don't have names, just numbers.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Apr 8, 2016 6:17:21 GMT -5
Asticou Inn (cont.): The first photo is the Cranberry Lodge, which is a part of the Asticou, but located across the street. The second is one of the bedrooms in the two-bedroom suite we've reserved in the Lodge.
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Post by jason on Apr 8, 2016 17:37:50 GMT -5
Which of you necrophiles picked the room with the hideous red-flowered wallpaper?
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Post by madeline on Apr 8, 2016 23:23:39 GMT -5
Which of you necrophiles picked the room with the hideous red-flowered wallpaper?
That room is mine and I didn't pick it because of the wallpaper, though I don't see anything wrong with the wallpaper. Some of the rooms have very small bathrooms, so we reserved rooms that have large bathrooms. Also, that room has a good view of the bay. If you look at the photo of the back of the hotel, it's the second room from the right on the 3rd floor, the one that looks like it has 3 windows. We first thought about getting rooms on the 4th floor, which are the attic rooms, but some of the reviews that we read said that the bathrooms were tiny.
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Post by pat on Apr 9, 2016 11:59:03 GMT -5
That room is mine and I didn't pick it because of the wallpaper, though I don't see anything wrong with the wallpaper. Some of the rooms have very small bathrooms, so we reserved rooms that have large bathrooms. Also, that room has a good view of the bay. If you look at the photo of the back of the hotel, it's the second room from the right on the 3rd floor, the one that looks like it has 3 windows. We first thought about getting rooms on the 4th floor, which are the attic rooms, but some of the reviews that we read said that the bathrooms were tiny. The room is beautiful, Maddie, and so is the inn. Is it haunted? I love the photo of the dining room. The view is breathtaking.
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Post by jane on Apr 10, 2016 16:11:35 GMT -5
The room is beautiful, Maddie, and so is the inn. Is it haunted? I love the photo of the dining room. The view is breathtaking. Appearances can be deceptive, but it looks like it should have a ghost or two. I don't see anything wrong with the room for a few nights in a hotel, but I wouldn't want to live day in and day out with that wallpaper.
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Post by madeline on Apr 11, 2016 3:17:25 GMT -5
The room is beautiful, Maddie, and so is the inn. Is it haunted? I love the photo of the dining room. The view is breathtaking. The Asticou Inn has a ghost, but not a very interesting one. Some people have seen the ghost of a former employee named Guy Toole, who died in 1998. He had worked at the inn since he was 16.
The Green Mountain Inn has a ghost that they used to call the Dancing Darkie, a colored horseman who worked at the inn back in the 19th century. When he would drink too much, which was often, he would tap dance on the roof. People say that sometimes at night, you can still hear Boots tapping on the roof.
I don't think that the Big Moose Inn is haunted, but the lake and places near the lake are haunted by the ghost of Grace Brown. Lee did a very good story on Grace Brown. Here's the link:
whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/2011/july-grace-brown-death-moose
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Post by madeline on Jun 21, 2016 10:26:00 GMT -5
For those of you who have forgotten, we're leaving on our Dark Shadows trip on Friday, the 24th. Catherine and I will be driving to Tennessee on Thursday and we and Kate will be leaving from Nashville at 9:15, Central time, and arriving in Atlanta at 11:25. Lee will be leaving from Florida at 10:30 and arriving in Atlanta at 11:42. From there, all four of us will be taking the same flight and we arrive in White Plains, NY at 2:41 p.m. Julia lives in Maine and there aren't any planes from there to White Plains, so she has to fly to Laguardia and her flight lands at 12:48 p.m. and then she'll take either a taxi or a shuttle to Tarrytown. She'll probably get to the hotel before we do this year. After we get to White Plains, we'll have to rent our SUV and fill out all the paperwork and that takes a while, but we hope to be at the hotel by 4:30 because we have reservations at the 76 House Restaurant in Tappan at 7:30 and we'll need time to change and drive to Tappan.
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Post by madeline on Jun 26, 2016 8:07:35 GMT -5
We made it to Tarrytown on Friday in time to change and get to the 76 House Restaurant in time for our reservations. It’s very atmospheric and the drive to and from Tappan was nice. We had to cross the Tappanzee Bridge, but the traffic wasn’t bad. We all had roast duck. There were some strange things on the menu like Alligator Empanadas, which was what you’d expect to see in Florida, not New York. The chairs were also uncomfortable, but I guess they didn’t have a lot of comfortable chairs in 1776. There was an event at Lyndhurst on Friday that lasted until 5, but we missed it because we couldn’t go to Lyndhurst and make our dinner reservations, which we made over a week ago.
Yesterday, there were DS events throughout the day and we attended a lot of them. Then we had to get ready for dinner at Cellar 49, where we had trout. Cellar 49 is supposed to be one of the best restaurants in Tarrytown, but it really isn’t all that special. I think that most of the DS stars listed on the guest list are here except Mitch Ryan, who played the part of Burke Devlin when the show first started.
Today, Lunch with the Stars starts at 11, and the lunch is never that good. There’s a tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery from 5:30 to 6:30. We're planning to go to the cemetery and walk around, but we're not taking part in the tour because we usually dress in black, like we're in mourning, when we have dinner at Equus Restaurant at Tarrytown Castle at 7:30, so we won't be dressed for rambling around on a tour. We were all in black the first time we went to Equus, so it's kind of a tradition.
It’s warm and sunny in New York, not really Dark Shadows weather, but we’ve heard that it’s supposed to be cloudy tomorrow. which will be nice for our drive to the Adirondacks.
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Post by kitty on Jun 26, 2016 10:53:02 GMT -5
I'm glad that they checked in and let us know that they got there OK. I'd like to go to a Dark Shadows convention, but it always seems to be a time that's not convenient for me. They always go to that same restaurant at the Castle. It must be good. I'll have to Google it when I have time to see what it's like.
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Post by kitty on Jun 27, 2016 18:12:42 GMT -5
They should be at the lake in New York by now. I hope that everything went OK.
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Post by madeline on Jun 29, 2016 8:40:35 GMT -5
We had lunch with the DS stars on Sunday and then went to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, but we didn’t go on the tour, which was from 5:30 to 6:30, because we had changed into our black mourning attire for dinner. After the cemetery, we went to Equus at the Castle, where we had saddle of lamb. When we got back to the hotel, we packed and went to bed early because we had to get up and leave before the morning traffic.
On Monday, we got up early and left Tarrytown about 6:30. We had a change of plans and instead of going to where Grace Brown lived and is buried, we decided to stop in Binghamton, where Rod Serling was born. We had called the Bundy Museum a week earlier. It was closed on Monday, but one of the college students who was working there for the summer wanted to make some extra money and offered to meet us there at 10:30 and let us see the exhibit which is on the 3rd floor. It’s in a lovely old house that Lee said was a mixture of Romanesque and Queen Anne. The lower part is made of stones and the upper is shingle and it has a round tower. The shingle part is painted a dull green and the stones are natural. It was clear when we left Tarrytown, but by the time we got to Binghamton, it was overcast. We drove by Rod Serling’s birth place and looked at some of the old houses before our tour. After the tour, we went to the park to see the carousel that inspired the Twilight Zone episode “Walking Distance.” The carousel is enclosed now to protect it from the harsh weather. After driving around and looking at more houses, we stopped at the Red Oak Diner and we all had club sandwiches and fries. It was around 12:30 when we left Binghamton for Cortland.
By the time we got to Cortland, it looked like it was going to rain, but never did. We went to see the building that used to be the Gillette Skirt Factor, where Grace Brown and Chester Gillette met. We also drove past the boarding house where she was living when Chester got her pregnant. It’s no longer a boarding house.
We got to the Big Moose Inn around five and checked in. Lee, Julia and I have rooms 14, 15 and 16 on the 3rd floor, and room 9, the room called “Grace’s Retreat,” where Catherine and Kate are staying, is on the 2nd floor. All the rooms have names. Lee’s room is called “Wilderness,” Julia’s is “Moose Lake” and mine is “Bear Paw”. The rooms are OK, but the mismatched furniture looks like it came from garage sales. But we have great views of the lake. We had dinner in the dining room and we ordered a Charcuterie Board for an appetizer. The Boards are shaped like the state of New York. We had salad and pork loin with cranberries for dinner. We were tired from traveling all day and shortly after dinner, we went to bed.
The weather still hadn’t cleared by yesterday morning. It was overcast and rain was predicted, but I don’t think that it’s rained more than a few sprinkles, but there were strong gusts of wind. The inn has a continental breakfast, but it’s nothing special. After we ate, Catherine and I went to drop off our dry cleaning in Eagle Bay. Some people were swimming in the lake, but it was too cold for us, so we took two boats out on the lake. The boats are provided by the inn and they’re free to guests. We had to get two because there weren’t any for five people. Lee, Catherine and I took one boat and Julia and Kate took the smaller 2-person boat. We stayed near the shoreline on our way to Punky Bay, where Chester killed Grace Brown. The lake isn’t deep, but Grace couldn’t swim. The inn restaurant and tavern aren’t open for lunch, so we ate protein bars and potato chips, talked with some of the other guests, then rested and got ready for our dinner cruise at the Racquette Lake Navigation Co., which is about a 40 minute drive from the inn. The 2-hour cruise started at 5:30 and there were drinks and appetizers before dinner. The boat also had Charcuterie Boards, but they were rectangular, not in the shape of anything. The steaks we had were very good and the scenery is breath-taking. The tables are all set for 8 people and we shared ours with a woman and her brother and son from Maryland. When we got back to Big Moose, we again went to bed early.
It was cold last night and very cool this morning, in the low 60's. We’re leaving in a few minutes to drive down to Herkimer to see the old Herkimer courthouse and jail where Chester Gillette was held and tried. They’re both haunted.
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Post by jason on Jun 30, 2016 9:32:30 GMT -5
Do they really think anyone cares that the freaking Charcuterie Boards are shaped like the state of New York?
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Post by pat on Jul 1, 2016 8:26:59 GMT -5
Do they really think anyone cares that the freaking Charcuterie Boards are shaped like the stare of New York? I don't see anything wrong with saying the Charcuterie Boards were shaped like the state of New York. It gives you an idea of what the Big Moose Inn is like. I've never seen a Charcuterie Board in any shape other than a plain old rectangle.
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