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Post by bernard on May 22, 2011 12:20:19 GMT -5
Found on the Facebook page for the Patsy Cline Historic House which is located at 608 S Kent St Winchester Va
It was posted on the 22nd of May 2011
The Patsy Cline Historic House will not be open to tours by Memorial Day Weekend 2011. It is still undergoing renvoations, but will be open soon. You may stop by the House and peer through the windows.
For those not in the USA
Memorial Day in 2011 is May 30th
The planned opening date ( quoted by the renovation team ) was to be in Spring 2011. In the USA Spring ends on June 21st
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Post by bernard on May 25, 2011 9:06:06 GMT -5
Spotted in the Winchester Star 21 May 2011
Celebrating Patsy Cline
Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. needs volunteers to be docents for the Patsy Cline Historic House - opening in June at 608 S. Loudoun St. in Winchester - and also for tour guides for Patsy Cline Bus Tours.
Each volunteer will be trained to provide information about the country music legend.
Call 888-608-2726.
This is the second call for volunteers, and the house now seems to have moved from South Kent Street.
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Post by bernard on May 28, 2011 4:17:11 GMT -5
On May 28th they repeated the call for volunteers but at least they got the address right this time
Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. needs volunteers to be docents for the Patsy Cline Historic House - opening in June at 608 S. Kent St. in Winchester - and also for tour guides for Patsy Cline Bus Tours.
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Post by bernard on Jul 1, 2011 1:07:26 GMT -5
An informed source tells me that organisors of a bus trip to visit the the house in the last week of June were unable to get confirmation that the house would be open for visitors and that therefore the trip to visit the house did not happen.
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Post by Chez on Jul 12, 2011 19:23:56 GMT -5
Hi Bernard, thanks for posting these updates. I don't understand what is taking them so long! I remember reading about a museum many years ago and also this house.. It's not even that big! They could have torn down and rebuilt the thing 50+ times already (not that they should EVER do that)! I'm in NY and aware that there is not that much to see in her hometown apart from the grave and bell tower and am just waiting for either the house or museum to open to FINALLY get down there. Does anyone have official word on what the hold up is?
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Post by bernard on Jul 14, 2011 0:29:58 GMT -5
Does anyone have official word on what the hold up is? The group Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc should be able to give an "official" reason but they remain silent about an opening date. There were rumours about un-foreseen difficulties with materials in the renovation and these required the employment of specialist contractors On the 02 June at 16:48 their face book page did say in reply to a question about an opening date Patsy Cline Historic House Hopefully by end of month.....but that question and answer have now been removed from the page. Also the toll free phone line seems to be "out of service".
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Post by bernard on Jul 14, 2011 0:56:01 GMT -5
! I'm in NY and aware that there is not that much to see in her hometown apart from the grave and bell tower and am just waiting for either the house or museum to open to FINALLY get down there. We were in Winchester in June 2002 and Doc Madagan at Gaunts Drug Store has created and maintains a sincere tribute to Patsy. Even though he was very busy he made time to make us welcome and spoke to us about her.
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Post by bernard on Jul 27, 2011 11:39:17 GMT -5
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Post by bernard on Jul 29, 2011 0:43:14 GMT -5
The Facebook pages now confirms the house will be open from August 2 until October and provides information about times and prices.
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