Here's what you've missed: Stone Mountain LIVE Grand Opening Weekend. Ralph Stanley the Clinch Mountain Boys. Steve Riley the Mamou Playboys. Jay Ungar Molly Mason. Stone Mountain LIVE Goes Country. Stone Mountain LIVE Christmas. Stone Mountain LIVE Goes Irish. Mary Chapin Carpenter. David Bromberg Quartet. Stone Mountain LIVE One Year Anniversary. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Stone Mountain LIVE October 2007. 2nd Annual Stone Mountain LIVE Christmas. Liz Carroll John Doyle. BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet. Stone Mountain LIVE March 2008. John Jorgenson Quintet. Stone Mountain LIVE April 2008. Portland Chamber Music Festival. The Second City Comedy Troupe. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Most of these acts have rebooked... check the schedule! Plus, it's not too early to plan ahead... some shows are already booked for 2009! STONE MOUNTAIN GETAWAYS WITH THE INN AT CRYSTAL LAKE ®. Up Close and Personal Stay at the Inn at Crystal Lake in the beautiful town of Eaton, New Hampshire where just over the Maine state border in the town of Brownfield is the Stone Mountain Arts Center (or SMAC as it has become known). Enjoy all the comforts of our cozy country inn complete with our own dining room and pub. Relax and have an intimate dinner before the show... we will definitely all take good care of you! We are very happy and honored to say that we are the only inn that has exclusive lodging packages with the Stone Mountain Arts Center. Package prices are based on double occupancy. Please note that if a package includes two nights, that package has a two night minimum. Package prices include two tickets (no need to call the Arts Center), but do not include tax, gratuity or beverages (note: to make things easier and all-inclusive for our guests, we will be changing future lodging packages to include gratuity - some have already been changed and are noted below). Seats are held for you at the Arts Center - another benefit of doing the lodging package... and since the Arts Center only holds 200, you're guaranteed a great seat no matter where it is! Just make one phone call to 1-800-343-7336 or within New Hampshire 447-2120 to reserve your complete getaway! Unless otherwise noted, concerts begin promptly at 8pm. Dinners at the inn are at 5pm and the shuttle (if applicable) is at 7pm. We require a 50% deposit on any major credit card with the remainder due upon arrival. Because of the popularity of these concerts and the limited number of tickets, Getaway Packages are NON-REFUNDABLE. We treat these packages as you would when you purchase tickets to any other concert. Check back for updates on the concert schedule and lodging packages. STONE MOUNTAIN ARTS CENTER GETAWAY PACKAGES ®. He is a featured member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station, but he is likely best known for the song Man of Constant Sorrow, which was featured in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? and won the 2001 CMA award for best single as well as a Grammy Award for best Country Collaboration with Vocals (along with Harley Allen and Pat Enright, filling out the vocals for the movie's Soggy Bottom Boys). In total, he has won 10 Grammy awards for solo and collaborative projects. He and his high, lonesome sound will be appropriate up here in the Mountains with his top notch bluegrass band... don't miss it! Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $335. Singer songwriter... emphasis on the singer! What a voice... from pop to soul... this great glides easily. He doesn't tour a lot, so don't miss him! Martin Sexton is ripe with... raw, expansive talent. His voice comes in a hundred impossible shades. His songs are sweet and spirited and soulful. His repertoire is like a cross-country tour of the American musical vernacular. Boston Globe. Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $335. Richard Thompson just like you love him! Just the man, the guitar and his witty musings that we have all missed on the big shows. Remember when you saw him in that small room with a couple of hundred other Richard Thompson heads? Well now you can. This show will sell fast. This promises to be a great performance, so we're opening up the restaurant just for our guests (we're normally closed for dinner on Mondays). Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $375. July 3 4 (Thursday Friday): You read it right... not Joan... not Susan... not Tom... but THE Miss Judy Collins. Up close and personal for two shows. She'll sound great in SMAC's beautiful barn. And by the way, you'll get to see those amazing eyes of hers! Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $425. Folk singing star Livingston Taylor is back for an encore performance to benefit the program. The Mountaintop folks are the only significant music lesson program established in our neck of the woods. It's a really important program especially for our young budding musicians and we hope you will come support them and see a great night of music at the same time. Mountain Top Music Center's mission is to enrich lives and build community by providing inspiring music education and by offering performance and listening opportunities throughout the area. Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $355. Dar was one of the first acts booked at SMAC, and no she's back for an encore performance. She is an acclaimed singer-songwriters for her generation... Dar Williams has been engaging audiences with her musical artistry since the early 1990s when she rose from the Northeast coffeehouse circuit to the national spotlight. A native of New Yorks Hudson Valley, where she still resides, Williams maintains in her life and music a strong system of values, idealism and community involvement. Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $335. The Stone Mountain Arts Center is proud to present another big Up Close and Personal star to their humble place on the hill. Singer songwriter Lucinda Williams and her band will be there to extend the fun to your Fourth of July weekend! This promises to be a great show, so we're opening up the restaurant just for our guests (we're normally closed for dinner on Mondays). Package include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gratuity for dinner is included, but alcohol and additional gratuity is not), roundtrip shuttle and two concert tickets. $495. Back for an encore performance! Hailing from Maine, but now a national success, he is one of the few comics to do the complete late-night TV circuit: The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan OBrien and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Craig Kilborn. His material heavily features all that is Maine and New England and literally hits home. It'll be as much fun as it was in March! Note: Some adult material (a definite PG13 rating!). Packages include: One nights lodging with full country breakfast, dinner at the Inn before the show (gra...

The Boston Globe COMFORT AND CUISINE WARM A NEW HAMPSHIRE INN October 15, 2006 By Sacha Pfeiffer, Globe Staff EATON, N.H. - I knew I was going to like this place as soon as we arrived late on a Friday night, ragged after a rainy two-hour drive from Boston, and found a plate of homemade oatmeal-raisin cookies in our room. There wasn't a crumb left by morning. The cookies were the handiwork of Bobby Barker, who's also behind the Inn at Crystal Lake's sensational sugar-dusted blueberry muffins, custardy cheddar quiche, and pancakes so naturally sweet they're delicious even without maple syrup. Barker, a Winthrop native, owns this White Mountains inn with his partner, Tim Ostendorf, who doubles as bartender and breakfast server, among myriad other roles. The duo are savvy marketers, luring guests with cookie tours in December and opera dinners from September through May, where Ostendorf, a Boston University music school graduate, serenades visitors with music from Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, and La Boheme. They've also teamed up with the nearby. offering package deals that include tickets to shows. One June weekend, we were enticed by the inn's wildlife and bird-watching mud season special, a two-night, $295 package. The price included the room, two breakfasts, one dinner, one lunch, and an adorable gift bag of Audubon Society trail maps, a guide to wildlife refuges, insect-repelling body lotion, lavender goat milk soap (to scrub away mud after frolicking up mountains) and, in a cute final touch, birdseed. If the goal was to charm us, mission accomplished. The package's outdoorsy theme was the perfect opportunity for our first White Mountains hike of the year. The inn is a 45-minute drive from Pinkham Notch, a trailhead for several great climbs, and five miles from bustling North Conway, home to hordes of gift shops, restaurants, hotels, and outlet stores. Barker and Ostendorf bought the inn -- a handsome, four-story, yellow-clapboard house built in 1884 -- five years ago, and opened an on-site restaurant in 2003. Townspeople often stop by to dine, making the inn a central part of the tiny town of Eaton, which consists of little more than a church, a cemetery, and a general store. It's an excellent restaurant with a real chef, lovely dining room, and snug bar, the Palmer House Pub, packed with eye-grabbing knickknacks. In previous lives, the inn was variously a private home, a library, a post office, and a boarding school; our third-floor bedroom, in fact, was once part of a boys' dormitory. Comfortable and carpeted, it had a double bed, bureau, rocking chair, side table, TV, and VCR. We especially liked the modern window air conditioner that we could set to a precise temperature. The Inn at Crystal Lake isn't a destination for luxury pampering; it's a place of simple comforts, no-pressure hospitality, easy access to some of the state's most beautiful outdoor spots, and great cooking. It also offers plenty of thoughtful amenities, like beach towels and beach chairs for guests to use at Crystal Lake, right across the street. There's also a cozy den with comfy couches, low- light lamps, a TV, stereo, DVDs, videos, and a large CD collection. When it came time to hike, we skipped the nature walks and headed straight for the granddaddy of the Whites -- Mount Washington -- and climbed to the summit. That meant we were wild with hunger when we returned to the inn for dinner, and our meal was fantastic. The Thai chicken soup, boneless jerk chicken skewers, salads with maple balsamic vinaigrette, and pesto salmon were excellent. Roasted chicken came with fabulous cornbread stuffing and expertly steamed broccoli. Warm peach cobbler was scrumptious. Lunch came in the form of a meal voucher good at the Eaton Store, an old-fashioned general store with an antique milkshake machine and pretty good chow. Seated at counter stools, we happily ate chef salads, corn muffins, and chocolate chip cookies while enjoying the nonstop banter of the old-timer manning the grill. He seemed to know nearly every customer by name and, like the inn itself, oozed winning charm. Copyright (c) 2006 Globe Newspaper Company. The Boston Globe TRAVELER'S TASTE December 24, 2003 TINY PUB OFFERS A WORLD OF FLAVORS By Marty Basch, Globe Correspondent EATON CENTER, N.H. - Call it a new twist at the bend in the road. With a beaded deer head on the wall and classic divas piped through the speakers, the Palmer House Pub at the Inn at Crystal Lake opened recently in the bed-and-breakfast run by partners Bobby Barker and Tim Ostendorf. The tiny 20-seat pub is crammed wall to ceiling with life's memorabilia. My girlfriend and I sipped a martini and a manhattan, taking turns swiping at the creamy, caper-spotted white bean dip appetizer. Patrons sat at the walnut bar that once graced Boston's Ritz-Carlton. The pub was our first stop. Here, the global tastes on the small menu, change weekly. Three nights after opening, the pub was offering chili, a gutsy sausage-and-kale-laced Portuguese soup, a veggie wrap, and thick grilled burgers. Barker and Ostendorf have been running the 12-room BB, built in 1884 by Nathaniel G. Palmer (for whom the pub is named), for two years. Barker grew up in Winthrop and cooked at the Wharf in Revere in the late 1980s and still prepares the baked goods and breakfasts - local chickens ensure fresh eggs. Ostendorf is a Boston University voice-major alumnus who entered the software world and then opted for the mountains. After drinks and appetizers in the pub, it was time for the 24-seat dining room and entrees of beef, chicken, or pork. On the way, there's the eclectic living room with an elephant-figurine collection, glowing stove, and an alcove devoted to Dame Joan Sutherland, the retired coloratura soprano, complete with a classical-, opera-, and jazz-based disc and tape library open to inn guests. Once we were seated in the dining room, the warm bread appeared, followed by a salad of mesclun greens with homemade croutons. On this night, we enjoyed tastes of Ireland and Tobago. The Guinness-braised corned beef was plentiful and the country-sliced carrots were like grandma used to make. The Caribbean country chicken had a spicy aftertaste while the channa - curried chick peas - was smooth. For dessert, it was back to the pub to split a moist apple pie, a sweet finish to an evening spent along a winding country road. The Palmer House Pub at the Inn at Crystal Lake, Route 153, Eaton, 800-343-7336, www.innatcrystallake.com. Entrees $15.95. Marty Basch is a New Hampshire-based freelance writer. Copyright (c) 2003 Globe Newspaper Company Check out our for all our culinary creations!

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