Now Blogging on YourTango! Spillian Partner and Founding Fomenter Leigh Melander, Ph.D. is jazzed to be blogging on YourTango. She's been invited to contribute as an expert blogger on media site (and Google partner) YourTango.com. Here's a bit about YourTango: YourTango is the premier media company dedicated exclusively to love and relationships. We present compelling, brave, [...]
All Things Trout! Trout Tales 2016: A Celebration of Fly-Fishing Are you coming? Fly-tying. Casting. The romance and history of Catskills fly-fishing. Boats. Cool toys. Trout cookies you can ice like rainbows or brookies... Happy hour. A raffle for kids of a rod and reel set. And then a Trout Feast. What more could you ask for? [...]
Well, aren't we excited!?! (Happy dances...) Check it out. We've been named the top hotel in the Catskills on booking.com. This goes nicely with leading the way on TripAdvisor as well...we're consistently in the top five inns on TripAdvisor, and have been hanging in at 3rd place for a few weeks... We are of course committed [...]
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Spillian and co-sponsor Writers in the Mountains invites all writers to Writing Myth, an afternoon workshop exploring a mythic space that has inspired writers and poets for more than a hundred years. It’s September in the Catskills, when changing leaves and the onset of chilly weather bring out the writer in all of us. On [...]
July and August, 2015 A glorious summer dinner series on Wednesday evenings at Spillian, celebrating the metaphor of Spillian through food. Starring the extraordinary Chef Chris McGee as he revels in the metaphors of Spillian through food -- celebrating forest, stream, meadow, mountain, sky -- the elements that create the unique terroir of Spillian and [...]
Spillian Sundays: Voices from the Catskills Returns February 1! -- soup. song. story. salon. -- feb 1 : godforsaken string band freshly-minted old-time, appalachian music from an andes-based band, with superb fiddle, rousing kazoo, and a chance to join in feb 22 : the seven maladies of ludwig van beethoven a brilliantly funny [...]
Spillian Founding Fomenter Leigh Melander had a marvelous time with her new friend and colleague, Nikki Johnson of Galileo Tech Media, in a great conversation with the splendid Lyn Thurman of Inner Goddess Media. A stream-of-consciousness riff on many of the things that Leigh holds dear…from frivolity to sustainability to how we can imagine the [...]
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