Country Roads Live at The Greenbrier PAGE 03 Greenbrier China Dine in Style PAGE 09 Way to Wellness A Healthy Lifestyle PAGE 18 Who Visited Royalty PAGE 27 SPRING 2021 ISSUE 04 THE NORTH ENTRANCE 03 05 09 18 22 TABLE OF CONTENTS Upcoming Events 01 Country Roads 03 Charmco Custom Rods 05 Greenbrier China 09 Way to Wellness 18 Scenes from the past - 1938 Springtime Ad 21 Fascinating Facts Wallpaper 22 Team Members Milestones 23 From Our Kitchen to yours - Strawberry Cake 26 Who Visited: Famous Guests 27 UPCOMING EVENTS Any day is a good day to visit The Greenbrier, as there’s always something exciting happening at America’s Resort. But if you are looking for a special event to fit an interest of your own, or perhaps someone you love, the calendar is filled with unique happenings throughout the year. Take a look at just some of the one-of-a-kind opportunities coming up in 2021 at The Greenbrier. YOGA POWER RETREAT MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH APRIL 9 - 11 MAY 9 Yoga Power, LLC invites you to visit Celebrate Mother’s Day at a place The Greenbrier for a weekend of nearly as beautiful as the women relaxation and rejuvenation. With we honor on this special holiday, classes offered by Yoga Power’s created right here in West Virginia. registered yoga teachers, there Enjoy the beauty of spring at Amer- will be opportunities for yogis of ica’s Resort, and treat your family all technical abilities. Along with to a brunch as elegant as the resort beginner yoga, power yoga, yin yoga, itself. Let your mother, grandmother, meditation, and even goat yoga and wife, or anybody else who fills this aerial yoga, the weekend will include unique place in your heart, know just entertaining late-evening events, how proud you are to call her Mom such as hip-hop yoga. by letting The Greenbrier treat her like a queen. THE GREENBRIER CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND APRIL 30 - MAY 2 MAY 28 - 31 The fourth annual celebration of the The Greenbrier welcomes summer automobile at The Greenbrier in- with a weekend filled with food, fam- cludes a weekend filled with events, ily and fun. From cocktail tastings including dinners, drives, Cars and to special culinary events, outdoor Cocktails and the signature concours games and entertainment inside on Sunday, with nearly 100 of the and out, a long weekend spent at finest collector cars in the world America’s Resort offers a refreshing ready to be judged in the iconic front start to a new season. circle of The Greenbrier. This year’s featured class will be Television and FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND Movie Cars. JULY 2 - 5 GreenbrierConcours.com The Fourth of July holiday has long been a special celebration at The THE GREENBRIER HALF- Greenbrier as America’s Resort MARATHON honors America’s birthday with a MAY 8 grand weekend full of activities. The Greenbrier Half Marathon is a From family activities such as bingo, luxury destination race like no other. fun runs and lawn games to pa- Participants will run exclusively on rades, concerts, food and fireworks, the 11,000-acre grounds of The The Greenbrier celebrates our great Greenbrier. Half Marathon, 10k and nation with three days of festivities 5k participants will enjoy an exclu- you don’t want to miss. sive run through world-renowned golf courses with views of the Al- legheny mountains and amazing real estate. The course features less than 600 feet of elevation gain, making for an enjoyable race through the rolling mountains of West Virginia. CapstoneRaces.com/greenbrier 1 | SPRING 2021 LABOR DAY WEEKEND HALLOWEEN WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 3 - 6 OCTOBER 29 - 31 Send summer out with a bang by Join us for a weekend filled with spending Labor Day weekend at The costumes, mystery and entertain- Greenbrier. Enjoy mixology classes, ment as The Greenbrier celebrates art alive workshops and family Halloween 2021. From trick-or-treat games or take in a show designed for the kids to the Spooky Soirée for the entire family. Stay active with for the children at heart, the festive our Labor Day Fun Run or relax by weekend will be fun for the entire the outdoor pool and soak up the family. sun as you enjoy breathtaking views of the Greenbrier Valley. THANKSGIVING WEEKEND NOVEMBER 25 - 28 SEPTEMBER 11 REMEMBRANCE The Greenbrier has been bringing WEEKEND families together for more than SEPTEMBER 10 - 13 a century, and there’s no better Parades, concerts, sporting events time to bring the whole group to and special ceremonies will all be The Greenbrier than Thanksgiving part of a weekend honoring those weekend. Enjoy incredible buffets who lost their lives on September 11, and family activities, then kick off 2001, and the first responders who the Christmas season with the first walked toward danger on that tragic tree lighting of the year later that day. weekend. ARENAMEND CLASSIC WEEKENDS WITH SANTA OCTOBER 13 - 17 DECEMBER 3-4, 10-11, 17-18 A brand new event that honors Enjoy the twinkle in your child’s eyes a long equine tradition at The as the jolly old elf himself takes a Greenbrier brings world-class show break from his Christmas prepa- jumping to America’s Resort for a rations to spend some quality time weekend of active enjoyment. With with your loved one at The Greenbri- state-of-the-art live streaming, er. From story time by the fireplace, world-class competitors and global breakfast in the Main Dining Room commentators, the ArenaMend and, of course, those cherished Classic will be able to bring millions photos that will live on for years to of viewers together for a weekend of come, your Weekend with Santa will exciting competition. be filled with holiday memories that ArenamendClassic.com will last a lifetime. FALL FLAVORS CHRISTMAS OF APPALACHIA DECEMBER 23 - 26 OCTOBER 30 Celebrate Christmas the old-fash- The Greenbrier’s third annual Fall ioned way with hot chocolate, carols, Flavors of Appalachia brings togeth- incredible cuisine and family. From er some of the region’s most loved sleigh rides in the snow and ice wineries, distilleries and breweries skating in the shadow of the pictur- with the award-winning cuisine esque resort to the Gingerbread Ball from America’s Resort™. Enjoy an on Christmas Eve and music and evening filled with food, wine, spirits worship on Christmas Day, there’s and music as fall arrives in the West no place as magical as Christmas at Virginia mountains. America’s Resort. LIFE AS FEW KNOW IT™ Greenbrier.com | GREENBRIER MAGAZINE | 2 COUNTRY ROADS On April 12, 1971, John Denver released “Take Me Home, While the world continues to process the way life has Country Roads” on his album “Poems, Prayers and changed over the last year, a peaceful, secluded way Promises.” Fifty years later, the song still echoes off the of life, like the one that can be found at The Greenbrier mountains and through the valleys throughout the state Sporting Club, is more appealing than ever before. of West Virginia at sporting events, festivals, reunions and backyard cookouts as an official state song. “People feel safe here,” said Klemish, explaining that home sales were up 167 percent in 2020. “It’s a friendly It’s ironic, then, that as the hit song celebrates 50 years community, and it allows them to get away from the and more than 1.6 million copies sold, many are discov- cities and enjoy what nature has to offer.” ering exactly why West Virginia is “Almost Heaven” and establishing their own “home far away” for the first time. A residential sporting community, The Greenbrier Sport- ing Club is the pinnacle of luxury real estate in West “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” which has also been Virginia. Offering home sites from $300,000 and homes recorded by Olivia Newton-John, Ray Charles, Roy Acuff, from $1 million, the club gives members an opportunity Hermes House Band and many others, paints the picture to make a home on The Greenbrier’s 11,000-acre prop- of West Virginia’s scenic mountains and valleys, a simple, erty and experience “Life as Few Know It” with access to timeless way of life and the sense of home that can be The Greenbrier and its incredible amenities. found among the hills. That, said John Klemish, Broker- In-Charge at The Greenbrier Sporting Club, is exactly Another huge draw for The Greenbrier Sporting Club what is drawing new homeowners to West Virginia. is the wide variety of outdoor pursuits available to members. The Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah “All the activities we have here, the beauty of the moun- River don’t run through Greenbrier County, but Kate’s tains and the history of The Greenbrier are hard to pass Mountain and Howard’s Creek provide many of the same up,” said Klemish. “We have seen it all here.” opportunities for picturesque views and outdoor sports like fishing, hunting, shooting and hiking. 3 | SPRING 2021 The Greenbrier features more than 55 activities that to the help of independent pharmacies, the West Virginia members and guests can enjoy — including champi- National Guard and a telephone hotline and online site onship golf — on the resort property, and Greenbrier for registration. Sporting Club members also have access to their own amenities such as a private golf course, tennis, two “Our Governor (Jim Justice) has a great plan, and he has private pools, two private lodges, an equestrian center done a tremendous job making West Virginia a leader in and much more. COVID response,” said Klemish.