HONORING GLENVILLE'S HISTORY

HOW DID HAPPS PLACE HAPPEN? WE ATE HERE. WE MADE MEMORIES HERE. WE LOVED IT HERE.

So when we drove past the old shuttered Happs restaurant we all thought, 'Glenville needs that restaurant, that place for friends to gather, that place for community...someone needs to revive Happs'. So we did!

Two years in design and construction, Ol Happs Place Barn and Grill developed into a 3 part compilation of Glenville history. That is, we are the original 1960 block building that had a roomy 40 seat restaurant; we are the historic Moody House next door that dates to its build in 1900; and we are the historic Oliver's Lake Glenville Red Cabin and Barn from the 1950's. We deconstructed them with a hammer and a crowbar, and fashioned all together in a place we hope will be greater than the sum of its parts

As we honor a combined 250 years of Glenville history we were mindful of the legacy of each of the properties. We visited many times with the Glenville Historical Society, Tony Moody and Bob Oliver. And of course we visited at length with the Happs; who told us among other things: to have only fresh vegetables; to take reserva- tions for 5 or more, and to raise prices a bit. :)

Ol Happs Place is now a completely modernized, fundamentally new commercial building, all the way down to the state of the art computerized wood-fired pizza oven, and the bacteria-scrub- bing ventilation. In Happs, we wanted you to be in a restaurant that was vaguely familiar, but refreshingly new and different. Happy's and the Back Porch are new in theory, but the Moody/Oliver-laden finishes throughout hopefully generate interest, reflective thought, and even curiosity. In all spaces, 'comfortable' should be everywhere and anywhere.

Out back, we transported largely intact the Oliver family's Red Barn to its new place. At first glance, it does seem a bit rickety. But it stoutly stands in memory of the barn that was built there in 1900; one that was a farm shed, a feed store, and a not-quite-so-legal whisky joint. When it had served it's time by the 50's, the barn was a dilapi- dated storage shed. Never replaced, we thought the Red Barn was the perfect fit, and then some.

In the end, our goal is to provide you our guests with the very best possible restaurant experience, and to celebrate and honor Glenville's history. We endeavored to build a place where families frequent and friendships flourish; all while enjoying the best food, fire and music of the mountains.

We hope you might be, at least in some small way enriched by what we've set out to accomplish- a very new chapter in an old story.

Thank you for putting your trust in us.

We hope to do you proud.

Cheers,

Mountain Friends of Ol Happs Place