Payton: "Pancakes." Employee: "These are not pancakes! These are hoe cakes."
Hint: We were in Tennessee visiting my niece. Every table was first served "hoe cakes" with apple butter and garlic cheese biscuits!
Fried catfish
Fried chicken
Fried pork chops
So, so, so, so good!!! Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake. And, I don't even like pumpkin. You can google and get the recipe. : - ))))
It was a little on the expensive side, but it was all you can eat. Better than Thanksgiving dinner!
Paula Deen knew how to “butter us up.”
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor,
and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord
your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your
daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock,
or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:8-11
"The Eighth Wonder of the World"
Me: "I think at one time this was the Eight Wonder of the World." Mike: "I doubt that." Me: "Pretty sure it was."
Mike: "You're right!"
Me: Eye roll...
The new structure opened September 15, 1902 to rave reviews, and advertisements called it the Eighth Wonder of the World.
The West Baden Springs Hotel is a historic landmark hotel in the town of West Baden Springs in Orange County, Indiana, known for its vast domed atrium.
1901 A fire destroys the entire hotel building in less than two hours. 1902 The new West Baden Springs Hotel opens.
Sinclair builds the hotel of his dreams—a circular building topped with
the world's largest dome, built as much as possible of nonflammable
materials and decorated like the grandest spas of Europe.
1778 George Rogers Clark discovers the Southern Indiana mineral springs and salt licks.
When Lane opened his hotel in 1852 near the settlement of Mile Lick, he
named his establishment the Mile Lick Inn. The community was renamed
West Baden in 1855 after Wiesbaden, the German city known for its mineral springs.
1778 George Rogers Clark discovers the Southern Indiana mineral springs and salt licks.
1832 The first French Lick Springs Hotel is built. 1855 Another hotel is built in the nearby town of Mile Lick, later renamed as West Baden. 1888 As the owner, Lee W. Sinclair transforms
the hotel into a sophisticated resort, adding an opera house, a casino, a
two-deck pony and bicycle track and a full-size baseball field. 1901 A fire destroys the entire hotel building in less than two hours. 1902 The new West Baden Springs Hotel opens.
Sinclair builds the hotel of his dreams—a circular building topped with
the world's largest dome, built as much as possible of nonflammable
materials and decorated like the grandest spas of Europe. With the reputation of the Eighth Wonder of the World, ads claim the
resort's mineral baths and drinking waters could cure everything from
sterility to senility. The hotel offers golf on two courses, horseback
riding, billiards, bowling, baseball, swimming, hiking on scenic trails,
bicycling, movies and nightly theater. The hotel even has a stock brokerage firm, a bank, barbershop and other personal services. 1929 Many guests witness the event from the brokerage firm's offices in the hotel. The hotel emptied of guests almost overnight. 1932 The hotel closes. 1934 The hotel is sold to the Jesuits for one
dollar. To transform the hotel for use as a seminary called West Baden
College, the Jesuits removed many of its elegant appointments and
eventually dismantled the building's four Moorish towers rather than
invest in their repair. 1964 The West Baden College closes. 1966 The Jesuits sell West Baden to a Michigan
couple who donated it to Northwood Institute, a private college, which
operated on the property until 1983. 1974 The property is listed as a National Historic Landmark. 1985-1994 The property is tangled in years of litigation before a Los Angeles federal bankruptcy court judge to resolve an issue of contested ownership. 1996 A corporate benefactor, Cook Group Incorporated of Bloomington, Indiana begins to restore the property for redevelopment. 2003 The multiyear lobbying effort succeeds when
the Indiana legislature approves the overseeing of the historic hotels
and casino district. 2007 The hotel reopens with approximately 240 rooms/suites, reduced from the original 508 small guestrooms in 1932.
