a funny story, in 1991 I was a pass holder, and they were opening the new shops in the stable, the book store, candy, xmas etc and it was the first night they were going to be open..........it was going to be from like 7 to 9pm...........so I left work from my home an hour and half away and got there about 8pm, very dark by then in Nov and thats when at that hour someone in the Lodge Gate let u through, before the ticket center or the Inn was built, so I showed my pass and was sent on in.............about halfway down the approach rd to the house I see light coming up from behind then police lights on top of the car, I figured police were on the way to the house so I pulled to the side but the police stopped behind me, it was a Biltmore policeman, he wanted to know why I was on the approach when the estate was closed, I said there was a pass holder shopping night, he knew nothing about it, I had my little ambassador with me and showed him and he scratched his head and said ok then mumbled something about why no one else had been up the approach rd.................so I go on to the shops parking in front of the house and my girlfriend and I go in and we were the first people there, the workers in the shops were all attentive and ready but we were it, we all laughed, a few minutes later 2 other couples arrived and we stayed until 9, walked around the house til 10 everyone else long gone. It was soooo much fun being there alone, I had no idea in a few months I would be back with a curator at night alone in the archives seeing risqué images of Cornelia and images of portraits of Cornelia that WAVC was searching for etc, hours alone in the house is some kind of cool...............but that night in Nov 1991 is one Ill never forget and today it shows just how much the pass holder program has changed, in 2004 when we attended the fourth floor restoration it was a huge event that filled the house with many more people than they ever expected and held two treasure talks for it because of demand...........they used to put out 4 Ambassadors as well but cut the writer of it to save $$$ since they didnt need to give pass holders stuff like they used to since they have so many, I miss the good ones..........
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:21:15 +0000
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