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A Web feature designed to give you the latest information of up and coming events as well as off season happenings at the Spalding Inn, where “Perfect Memories Begin with the Perfect Place.”
Check out our package deals for ways you can save during your next visit at the Spalding Inn. We look forward to this summer and having many of you return for your next season of memories at the Inn. Bookings are nearly double this year versus the same time last year. So... don’t delay and get your reservations in early.
How about sending us an historical fact or your favorite memory of your stay at the Spalding Inn? It doesn’t matter how long ago it was as we would love to hear from generations and times past. This will be an ongoing attempt to develop a detailed history of the Inn. Get your shared fact or memory posted on the Inn the News Web page.
Main Events for 2004 (and the requests keep coming in...)
- Grand Opening of the Rose of Sharon Tearoom
- Reunions, Anniversaries, and Celebrations
- Fall Family Reunion
- Liska Family Reunion
- Dean Family Reunion
- Isaac “Neighborhood” Annual Reunion
- Boston Church of Christ Retreat
- Nicholas 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion
- Annual Walden Social Club Dinner
- Annual CMT Golfing Get-Away Weekend
- Catholic Daughters 70th Anniversary Dinner
- DAR Tea and Luncheon
- Faith Bible Christmas Celebration
- Official Home of the Weathervane Theatre Interns
- Weddings — Rehearsals and Receptions
- Erentova — Bartle Rehearsal and Reception
- Sparlin — Dryden Rehearsal and Reception
- Caldon-Angle Wedding Breakfast
- Guzy-Simcox Wedding
- Boulter-Reimer Wedding
- Jensen-Wood Wedding Breakfast
- Brown-Levin Wedding
- Cummings-Hill Wedding
Safe at Home... and we’re not talking baseball
After many prayers, letters, and care packages (some from you, our guests and newfound friends over this past season... thank you) we are pleased to announce that Spc. Walter Loope II has returned safely home from Iraq. The good news came on Dona’s birthday in January, so needless to say she didn’t mind reaching the “Purple Hat” stage of life. As you can see from the picture, Wally’s two boys (Sean and Nathaniel) were very excited to have Daddy home!
Wally is back in Virginia getting ready for Radiology school (again... after two deployments have interrupted previous attempts), working as a film editor, and spending time with the family.
He, as well as his fellow soldiers, felt they did an important job liberating the Iraqi people from the “worst WMD there is, Saddam himself.” From this trooper’s perspective, he saw first-hand the killing fields and didn’t meet one person that could not show a wound or tell a story of torture or death of a close family member. Our soldier’s hearts, and lives, were well given to save these people from bondage and tyranny. He often said ‘The people back home are not getting the whole story. These people are truly grateful and love Bush and the U.S.A. for saving them. They knew we were their best hope for freedom.”
The stories, film, and pictures Wally showed us were sobering to say the least. War is never pretty, and the cost of every life precious. (Freedom is never free.) If called, he is ready to serve again. “The U.S. will always be home, but my heart has fallen in love with the Iraqi people.”
Thank you, Lord, for protecting Wally and for bringing him and our nation’s other sons and daughters safely home. We remember those who still serve and are grateful for their sacrifices.
Thank you also, the many guests of the Inn, for your thoughts, prayers and letters to our son. We are equally grateful.
Well, that’s all for now...
Keep in touch with the latest “Inn-formation” on happenings here at the Spalding Inn by visiting Inn the News on the 15th of every month. Don’t miss our April Update that includes details on our new “Four Notches — Adventure in Time” Tours.
We will see you in April!
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