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“We could talk for an hour about the restaurants here (in Abingdon, Virginia), but for now let’s focus on Summers Roof and Cellar…

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Coming Home…

As I rose through the ranks in the competitive environment of world-class wine and hospitality, the pressures and pace became increasingly more intense. I often missed the peace of my childhood and younger years: running in the pastures and woods with my brothers and sisters, listening to my mother read the Bible to us in the mornings, and sweet moments walking with my wife Anastasia in the early days of our marriage.

As the Lord orchestrated it, an opportunity arose to return home and fulfill my desire to jump into the world of business ownership with my brothers, David and Nathan. We’ve enjoyed the creative process of designing and launching a rooftop and wine cellar hospitality venue in Abingdon’s turn-of-the-century Summers Building. We began collaborating on a vision for food and wine service that would pair fine dining with a sense of home…and the story continues!

—Charlie

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”

— C.S. Lewis