The Greenbrier

You don't have to be a needlepointer to be here, but you might leave as one.

Georgie and Lottie had the privilege of being a vendor at the Hobby Holiday Retreat, our first one, at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia.

The retreat combined Mahjong and needlepoint and attracted women who have a love for both or one.

Hobby Holiday is the brainchild of Elizabeth Trainor, a military spouse, mom to five, needle pointer, and mahjong player.

For sure.

So what do you think your biggest win was from the first one

at the Greenbrier? I think the biggest win is simply pulling it off, selling the tickets, having people come, having people interested because you put this out there and you invest your money.

I don't think people realize when you put these events on, there's a huge upfront Financial investment.

Just keep going to the Winter Romp website, and eventually it will say 2027, and all will be cool.

And also it's time to remind you of our countdown to the 80th Jubilee celebration at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, April 26th through the 30th in 2028.

What Land Rover are you driving to the Jubilee? Because you now have 18 months to get your Rover ready.

Or buy another one.

Yep.

At the Greenbrier.

Ms. Cilicicco just said at Greenbrier at Sam Sneed's restaurant.

Sam

Sneed's restaurant.

You can see Sam Sneed's Green Masters jacket in the front window of the Greenbrier and Augusta National has not come to reclaim it.

Well, here's a question.

If you can't take your jacket off of Greenbrier or off of Augusta National property, you think they'd let you play in that thing? Why would you want to? Play around in your green jacket.

But strange things started to happen.

And one was I was teaching cooking at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

They had a cooking school, in fact, run by Ann Willen.

And I... casually mentioned to the food and beverage director that I wanted to start a barbecue university.

A Canadian wins the CP Women's Open.

It's incredible! Absolutely incredible! 58! The Greenbrier has played host to a weekend of golfing genius!

Laurie is a rare repeat winner at Acosta.

The winner of the gold medal and the champion

If you look at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, you look at SAC headquarters in Omaha, or Bellevue, actually.

In Nebraska, if you look at the Pentagon, if you look at the old Greenbrier Hotel and... luxury resort in West Virginia.

You know, there were plans, and I guess there still are plans for places for our senior officials and military leadership to go in a case of an emergency.

I think we still keep an aircraft aloft that is there all the time if anything happens.

And probably the most famous modern example of a fine print disaster is Talbot Underwriting Capital versus Old White Cherries.

Old White ran the Greenbrier Classic, a PGA Tour event in West Virginia.

The owner of the Greenbrier, future governor and future senator Jim Justice, promised that if any pro made a hole-in-one on the 18th hole, every fan in attendance would get $100.

And if a pro managed to repeat the ace, every fan on the 18th green would win $500.

The offer didn't seem all that risky, but Old White purchased insurance from Talbot just in case.

The court agreed, finding the policy terms clear and unambiguous.

Witnesses confirmed that Old White staff knew the yardage requirement and that the insurer would never have issued the policy for a shorter setup.

Greenbrier tried to find a loophole by arguing that they had a reasonable expectation of coverage.

This is the first time we're telling anybody.

West Virginia, we're playing Old White at the Greenbrier.

And then in Oklahoma, we are playing at, what is it? At Oak Tree National.

Oak Tree National.