kpanek on September 22nd, 2010

September 22, 2010: Frontier Days officially opened today! I met Miss Frontier Days, Gabrielle Ash from Doddridge County. She is appearing at Frontier Days and will be in the Parade Saturday.  Frontier Days opened tonight with a Gospel Sing with performances by several area churches and groups. Then Red Hat followed by The Museum performed [...]

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kpanek on September 20th, 2010

September 20, 2010: Last night the Gambill Amusements trucks started rolling in, bring the carnival to town. They will be setting up and getting everything ready for the Fall Event of Shinnston – Frontier Days! Where? Adult rides are set up right in front of the Gillum House Bed & Breakfast in the Volunteer Fire [...]

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kpanek on September 16th, 2010

September 16, 2010: Their B & B Was D.I.Y. Daily Mail – Charleston SHINNSTON – One stop at a West Virginia bed and breakfast in the early 1980s was enough to convince Kathleen Panek she could open one too… That is how an article in the Charleston Daily Mail began on September 15, 2010 (D.I.Y. [...]

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kpanek on July 12th, 2010

July 12, 2010 : During the 4th of July holiday we had guests from New York who came in on a motorcycle for our And Awaaaaay We Go Special and they attended our annual Independence Concert. Mike wrote a ride report for his biker buddies and gave me permission to post it here: This being [...]

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June 15, 2010: I just had an e-mail from the Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau about an event that is coming in July! More than 200 teams will travel from all over the East Coast to Morgantown and Fairmont for the Hoop Group Triple S Harley-Davidson Summer Jam Fest Basketball Tournament. Hoop Group is [...]

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kpanek on May 31st, 2010

May 31, 2010: We are blessed that the Gillum Family keeps in touch with us at Gillum House Bed & Breakfast. Last year, Troy and Anna’s great-granddaughter (grandson Michael’s daughter) Erica graduated from Veterinary School in the State of Washington. Last week we received the announcement of Michael’s grandson Tyler’s graduation from Northeast High School [...]

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kpanek on May 19th, 2010

May 19, 2010: When I told my co-workers in Illinois that I was house hunting in West Virginia they asked what I was looking for in a house. My answer was it MUST have a big front porch. If it has a porch, the house will tell me when I find it. The house did [...]

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kpanek on May 15th, 2010

May 15, 2010: Come see some history. Start off with the Revolutionary War era with a tour of the Levi Shinn 2-story log house (circa 1778) – it is right here in Shinnston (free-will donation)! Then move up the history time-line and visit the Anna Jarvis House a place of history itself. Anna Jarvis was [...]

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kpanek on May 13th, 2010

May 13, 2010: The news is still full of the “bad economy”. Let us help you to have a wonderful vacation, enjoying lots of things, while spending little. Gillum House Bed & Breakfast has turn-by-turn routings to many things (can be customized – no longer turn-by-turn but will get you to your particular interests) to [...]

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kpanek on May 8th, 2010

May 8, 2010: Happy Mother’s Day tomorrow to all you Mothers. I had my Mother’s Day early and it was wonderful! Our youngest daughter and her friend came in from Chicago for my daughter’s birthday. She took us to a baseball game – the three of them went to a CUB game and I went [...]

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kpanek on April 29th, 2010

April 29, 2010: I had planned to tell everyone about how awesome the US Air Force Band Concert was at Lincoln High School (there were over 1000 people there!) on April 25 – also our 35th wedding anniversary, but a phone call we received this afternoon changed that. Our oldest grandson is in the Navy. Last [...]

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kpanek on April 24th, 2010

April 24, 2010: We have had a very interesting couple here for 5 nights to celebrate their anniversary. They had read my blog about the ramps ad wanted to try them. So their second breakfast was potatoes and ramps, sour cream scrambled eggs, toast, and venison brats and bacon. They liked them so much they [...]

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kpanek on April 16th, 2010

April 16, 2010: Mother’s Day is coming very soon. Gillum House Bed & Breakfast is just 22 miles from both the Anna Jarvis House and the Mother’s Day Shrine (same distance, slightly different route). In 2009, the West Virginia Association of Museums visited the Anna Jarvis House in Webster and the Mother’s Day Shrine in [...]

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kpanek on April 13th, 2010

April 13, 2010: I have been having a great time baking. A friend asked for a bagel recipe recently – “I have one and I even know where it is!” Wrong! The recipe I could envision was for pretzels. Soft pretzels.  Yes, I went through a bagel phase after finding a very easy bagel recipe [...]

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kpanek on April 11th, 2010

April 11, 2010: Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Winter seemed as if it would never end and here we are, Easter has come and gone and Mother’s Day is less than a month away! The Gillum House Bed & Breakast is located just 22 miles from the Anna Jarvis House – Birthplace of [...]

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