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The Stonewall Jackson Inn ~ Bed and Breakfast
The Inn is well located just off Interstate 81 (Exit 247B) near Historic Old Town Harrisonburg, VA, minutes from James Madison University, and a short drive to many Shenandoah Valley attractions such as the Skyline Drive,Blue Ridge Parkway, two National Forests, the Civil War Trails, multiple Civil War Battlefields and Museums.
"A Night's Delight  ~ A Breakfast to Remember!"

 


October & November News for You!
 

        
 In This Month's Edition:

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

 Wayne's Adventures

            I am sure that all of you have greatly missed receiving the October Newsletter.  Sometimes things just get Topsy-Turvey and there just is not enough hours in the day.  As well, the fall is our busy season with JMU starting up, football, Autumn colors, not to mention my birthday which I celebrate the whole month of October!  Lololo :)  (Guess how old I am and receive an extra helping of my famous “Stonewall Hash” for breakfast on your next visit.  Yummy!  Enough of that levity!  Continuing……     

We have set a new guest record for occupancy in both September and October this year.  With me doing the every day Chefing as well as other my other Innkeeping duties, I have been pretty well tied to taking day trips to my Bryce Chalet and outings on the Skyline Drive through the beautiful and brilliantly leaf-colored Shenandoah National Park with friends and relatives.  Three of my cousins from Ohio visited for 3 days, Shirley, Patsy, & Faun.  Folks, I played with these lovely ladies all through my boyhood, and our “inner child’s” still play whenever we get together, which is quite often.   They are an adventure :)

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Hospitality Team News  

 As you saw in my last Newsletter, the ever changing team here is growing beyond Innkeepers.  So, I have amended it to be more inclusive.  I have posted pictures of the Inn’s “Flower Fairy” Betty and her elf Mark, as well as Tanja “My Chief of Staff”. 

 

Above you see my current staff of part-time JMU Housekeeping elves......

Christina is our part time Innkeeper Intern Major from the JMU Hospitality
program.  Ian is our part-time Interning Webmaster and Technical Assistant,
also from JMU with a major in Integrated Science and Technology.

Frances, my intern of the previous two months decided that Innkeeping is to labor intensive for her....... 


Wayne and Debbie

.......But, stepping right into that position is Debbie Collier, who has been a flight attendant for United Airlines for 35 years with senior status and flies when she feels like it.  That is three mid-week days every other week.  She is here every weekend.   That experience serves her well as a hospitality partner for me, she easily meets and makes all the Stonewall Family Guests feel at home and well served.  It doesn’t hurt that she is easy to look at, and is up to any crisis with a cool head.  She is looking forward to retiring from flying and full time Innkeeping.  A great side-kick for me.  I am blessed with beautiful people  who love working at the INN, each other, and me as well.  The feeling is mutual, we are having a great time!  Now I just need a reliable Breakfast Chef to back me up in the Kitchen.  Any one want to Volunteer:)  Little pay, but lots of fun!! 

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Wayne's Hot Flashes! ~ Make Sure You Don't Miss This!

      “Wayne’s Hot Flashes”!  Ho! Ho! Ho!  With a moniker like that, you will definitely want to sign up for them.  An RSS Feed stands for “Really Simple Syndication”.  Basically, it is an instant feed to your computer to inform you of “breaking news” that would be of critical interest for our Stonewall Family.  It will be a little pop-up message to inform you about time sensitive “Hot Deals” and the like that you will be interested in knowing about.

      All “Hot Deals” for our Stonewall Family will be time sensitive and posted on our RSS feed.

For example, there will be last minute info and deals about Premium Weekends, free tickets to festivals and theater, and unfilled rooms here at the Inn, concerts at JMU & EMU.   Discounts to the Water park, Golf courses, Court Square Theater, and other special events.  Where to pick apples, find mushrooms, Massage and make-over specials 4-d-gals, celebrity visits, and the like.  It will be Stonewall’s version of “The Situation Room”.  You will not want to miss it, so do it now….here is how.

There are Three options to subscribe to the Stonewall Jackson Feed.  The first option is the best one if you are using a PC with Windows, it can quickly and easily be installed and used. It will take just a few minutes to do it.   The second and third options could be used by folks with a Mac and/or if you prefer to put it on your personalized Homepage such as:  My Yahoo, iGoogle, AOL, My MSN or the like.  Thanks for taking the time to subscribe.   I think it will work well for you.   Your feedback is always welcome.  If you have any trouble or any questions setting up the RSS feed, don't hesitate to call us at (800) 445-5330, ask for Ian or Wayne!

OPTION 1:
For Windows users, we recommend using Simbolic RSS Alert to subscribe to our feed. This is a very small program that runs silently in the background of your computer using next-to-none system resources. Please download it by clicking here.  It will download in a matter of seconds.   Then install the download.  Now click to open the program Simbolic RSS Alert; you will find it in your “Start” menu under the folder Simbolic.  Look at the bottom right-hand corner of your “system tray”.  You will see  a little  icon to inform that it is installed and running properly.  Now you are ready to subscribe to “Wayne’s Hot Flashes”.  For Windows users……follow the directions below.  

**Note: Once you open Simbolic RSS Alert, it may pop up a window asking you to delete a feed it came pre-installed with. Click Yes.

1. Right-click the  icon at the bottom right-hand corner of your computer in the System Tray (next to the clock)

2. Click Add New Feed...  at the top of the menu

3. Either type in or copy and paste http://www.stonewalljacksoninn.com/feed/desk.xml into the box

4. Click OK! You're done. Now every time Wayne sends out a “hot flash” discount or deal, you'll be the first to know!

OPTION 2:
If you have a personalized home page such as iGoogle, Windows Live, MY Yahoo!, etc., you can add our feed to your home page by clicking the respective button:
 Add to Windows Live Add to My Yahoo! Add to My AOL Add to Netvibes Subscribe with Bloglines

OPTION 3:
If you have another RSS feed reader that you already use or prefer, the address to our feed: http://www.stonewalljacksoninn.com/feed/desk.xml

OPTION 4: 

4-d-Mac Users

A decent (and free) RSS feed viewer for OS X is NewsFire. Feel free to download it by clicking here.

Once you've downloaded and installed NewsFire, you'll need our feed URL to subscribe, which is http://www.stonewalljacksoninn.com/feed/desk.xml

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Guests of the Month

His Royal Highness Prince Mired Radd Al-Hussein of Jordan

Look who dropped in for The Stonewall Jackson Experience this month!

Without a doubt, His Royal Highness Prince Mired Radd Al-Hussein of Jordan merits this recognition for his stay with us.  Mired was elected President of the 2007th eighth meeting of the countries banning together to accomplish World accord to prohibit the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and to destroy all that are currently placed or in any arsenal.  I am sure you will all agree this is a much needed and noble endeavor as it maims innocent civilian population long after all hostilities have ceased.  The Prince was here to address the JMU student body and to consult with the very active program at the University to accomplish the mission as stated above.  This is the Prince’s third visit here to consult with the group.  Jordan is a friendly country to our presence in the Middle East and has taken and given thousands of refugees protection from the violence in Iraq.

Mired is well educated having taken a BA from Tufts and a Masters from Cambridge in International Relations.  He has extensive military experience, completing the course at the British Royal Military Academy and has served for years as an Intelligence Officer in the Jordanian Military and Security Forces.  He knows first hand of the devastation and disabilities that land mines reek on innocent men women and children.  He is a gentle, humble, and well spoken man with the charisma to leadership. He travels with a body guard and an entourage of six who assist in his work and mission. I sincerely hope he is successful!

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Recipe of the Month


 The Stonewall "Breakfast to Remember" Fruit Topping

This is a much sought-after recipe and one of our best kept secrets.  As you know, we use this topping on our freshly  cut fruit cup that we serve with every  Breakfast to  “Remember”. Many of you have enjoyed and asked  for the recipe, so the secret is out.  Here it is.  It is easy, give us credit J 

Ingredients: 
8 ounces of well soften cream cheese
1 - 15oz jar of marshmallow fluff or crème (in the baking section)
The zest of one orange or lemon w/just a bit of the juice for consistency
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger 

Preparation: Mix the cream cheese and marshmallow fluff until smooth, fold in the zest and ginger, add juice to desired consistency.  Refrigerate over night, stir well before toping  fruit.  Great with Strawberries.   

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The Premium Weekend “Skinny”

    Our Stonewall Family is growing at a torrid pace!  So is JMU, EMU, Bridgewater College, and our community in general.  Alas, there are not enough guest rooms to accommodate all of our “frequent stay” family members on special Premium Weekends like, Homecoming, Family, Graduations, Holiday weekends, and the like.  Of course, we want to take care of our most loyal family members, those that have repeatedly  patronized the Inn. So, here is the “skinny” on how we handle the situation.
    All Premium Weekends are blocked-out from on-line and phone reservations as soon as the dates for that weekend is set so no reservations can be made.  You must call us and request to be put on a wait list for a reservation for that weekend.    We maintain a notebook of “wait” lists for each Premium Weekend.  There two lists for each Premium Weekend.  One list is for our “frequent stay” Stonewall Family Members (S), one is for Wannabe Family Members (W).  When you phone us with a reservation request for a Premium Weekend, your name, telephone, number of rooms/people is entered on the applicable list, S or W, on the date of your call. 
     One can move from the W-list to the S-list by staying with us prior to the January of the Year of the Premium Weekend.  Once you stay with us you will be on the S list forever.   Our reservation system provides us a record of  every stay for every guest.  So in January, we generate a list of the number of stays for everyone on the “S” reservation request list.  The number of stays is the first criteria that determines your rank on the list with the date of your reservation request as the second criteria. 
     We then start calling from the top of the list and continue until all rooms are sold.  You have 24 hours from the time we call you to respond and pay for your room.  There is a $50 @ night surcharge for such weekend, and your payment is refundable on the following conditions.  On your instructions,  we will try to resell your reservation by going to the list.   If reselling is successful, we then refund the entire amount you paid, less the usual $25 cancellation fee.  We must be the reseller as reservations are NOT transferable.  If you are not successful in obtaining a room here at the Inn, we will do everything we can to find you suitable lodging elsewhere. 
     The bottom line is:  The more frequently you stay, the higher is your rank on the list!  

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Visit www.harrisonburgtourism.org or http://www.dnronline.com
for the November line up of events, and there are always hiking, fishing and golfing activities.
*For the active folks, check out these links.* 

 
Bicycling
 Hillandale Bike Trail 
Virginia Bicycle Trails
Mountain Touring
Shenandoah Bicycle Company

Birding and Wildlife Trail
 Lost Shoe Loop

Caverns
 Endless Caverns
 Grand Caverns

Shenandoah River
 		 Fishing * Hunting
Mossy Creek Fly Fishing Shop
Runion's Hunting and Fishing
Silver Lake Mill
VA Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
Golf Courses
 Heritage Oaks Golf Course
Lakeview Golf Course
Mulligans Golf Center
Packsaddle Ridge Golf Course

 Guide Services
MassanuttenRiverAdventures
Mountain Touring
Wild Guyde Adventures		 Hiking
HikingUpward.com
National Park and Forest Services
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Blue Ridge Parkway
George Washington and Jefferson National Forests
Shenandoah National Park

 Horseback Riding & Equestrian Centers
 Bridgewater College Equestrian Center
Keezlenutten Farm Trail Rides
Mountain Top Ranch

 

November is Wine Festival Month in Virginia.  There are 140 wineries in this state making it one of the top wine producing states in the US.  If you are a wine tasting expert or just a wine lover like me, you will want to visit this site for the festival schedules and dinners.  http://www.virginiawinelover.com/ or travelvamagazine@comcast.net.

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547 E. Market Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
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Our lovely Inn provides exceptional Virginia lodging, in the heart of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of historic western Virginia betwixt the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountain ranges. A stay at the Stonewall Jackson Inn in Harrisonburg, VA will provide you with a wonderful alternative to conventional hotel or motel accommodations. Massanutten and Bryce Ski Resorts are an easy, scenic drive from our bed and breakfast. The Shenandoah Valley is among the top tourist destinations in the east because of its natural beauty, recreational facilities, historic sites and aesthetic orientation.

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  Stonewall Jackson Inn

547 East Market Street
             Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801           
           (540) 433-8233           
           (800) 445-5330           
              Info@StonewallJacksonInn.com          

Virginia Quilt Museum,James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University, Bridgewater College, Dayton Farmers Market, Packsaddle Ridge Golf Club, Cross Keys and Port Republic Memorial Battlefields, Massanutten 4-Season Resort & Water park, New Market Battlefield Historical Park/Hall of Valor, SShenandoahCaverns/American Celebration on Parade, The Frontier Culture Outdoor Museum, Woodrow Wilson’s Birthplace/Home Museum, Shenandoah/American Shakespeare Theater, SShenandoahNational Park-Skyline Drive.

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