Author: Virginia Miller Cornell 280 pages with photographs ISBN 0-9627896-7-4 (paperback) $14.95 To order, go to the faxable order form. ISBN 0-9627896-6-6 (hardcover) $23.95 To order, go to the faxable order form. High in the mountains, there was once a rustic, homemade ski lodge — populated by reluctant honeymooners, errant husbands, truant plumbers, youthful ski bums ... plus one naive innkeeper. The Miller family's funky old Inn high in the Rockies — where the grub was great and the powder was deep. With humor and insight the author remembers when, as a single mother, she struggled to fill the gigantic footprints vacated by her frenetically energetic father. Her first year in the Inn business brought adventures — hilarious, romantic, tragic. Re-live life as she skied it early in the 1970s. About the author "I come from a family where story telling is important," says Virginia Cornell. "We like to entertain people, to make them laugh." But instead of spinning yarns out loud, as her father and older brothers always did, she prefers to write them down. Before becoming an innkeeper she taught English at Arizona State University. Immediately after her five years in the ski lodge business she bought, published, and edited the Winter Park Manifest weekly newspaper. She is the author of the Benjamin Franklin Award-winning biography Doc Susie. "VaCuum," a column she wrote eight years for the Carpinteria Herald, Montecito Life and Goleta Sun is now on-line. Look for "The Latest Wrinkle" every week. Author Available for Speaking Engagements Virginia Cornell has entertained many groups with her humorous lectures. See the Speaking page for more information.

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