An Island Getaway That’s Murder!
Watch for this exciting, late-summer package offered at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. Murder Mystery Weekend, Inc. presents a weekend to kill for! Become a super sleuth, expect the unexpected, search for clues, and solve the crime --- all this while staying at the historic Jekyll Island Club Hotel! The package includes accommodations for two nights, welcome reception, group breakfast buffet Saturday morning, group lunch, reception and dinner Saturday evening, and Closing breakfast Sunday…and clues. Please contact the hotel directly to reserve at 800-535-9547 or 912-635-2600. See more here about this package.

Congratulations to the winner of the Jekyll Island club Hotel Photo Contest on Flickr in April. James B. Jackson or Martinez, Georgia, has won overnight accommodations for two nights at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. His photograph, published in the Club News, in our online newsletter, and on Flickr, is a beautiful shot captured during a visit last July.

You too can be a winner!

If you're new to Flickr, it's an image hosting website, web services suite, and online community. An exciting way to share and embed photographs, it's also a service used by bloggers to host images they embed in blogs and social media. Your still photographs may be eligible for this Jekyll Island Club Hotel competition. It’s this easy. Email your still image entry to flickrcontest@jekyllclub.com as an attachment. In the email, be sure to include the following information:

Name of the photographer
Contact information: phone number and email address, city and state
Caption of still image
Date the image was captured
Permission for the Jekyll Island Club Hotel to use the image on Flickr, YouTube, and other hotel marketing and promotions.

A few rules:
1. The image must have been taken by the contestant on Jekyll Island.
2. Contestants may enter one image each month.
3. Deadline for submissions is the last business day of the month.

Winners are announced in issues of this newsletter.

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Executive Chef Abigail Hutchinson has released exciting new lunch and dinner menus for the Grand Dining Room and the Courtyard at Crane.

In the early days of the Club, members such as J.P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick, Joseph Pulitzer and their friends would gather in the Club dining room expecting their dining experience to be exciting and enjoyable, the courses to be made of the finest and freshest ingredients, everything to be presented beautifully and served graciously. These traditions continue in the Grand Dining Room and the Courtyard at Crane today.

“We have introduced some exciting new items on the menus that we think will delight and perhaps surprise our guests,” says Chef Abigail. “We're fortunate to live in a region that has an abundance of seafood and fresh produce. It inspires us to create menus that bring out the best in taste and presentation for our guests.”

During the month of May, the Grand Dining Room is offering a Lunch Special at $11.95 per person that includes Soup du Jour or House Salad and Chef’s Daily Special. Make your reservations online.

Courtyard at Crane has an Early Bird Special at $19.95 per person with seating between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. Crane’s special includes a house Salad and a Choice of One of Three Entrees. Crane serves dinner Sunday through Thursday. These specials are not valid on holidays. For Courtyard at Crane reservations call 912-635-2600, extension 5100.

See the complete menus here.

The Morgan Center renovation project is well underway, and excitement is growing for the scheduled opening of the facility in September. The historic Morgan Indoor Tennis Court, originally built in 1929, is being completely renovated for adaptive reuse and transformed into a beautiful, dual-level conference center.

The $3.5 million Morgan Center project, undertaken by Pinkerton and Laws of Marietta, Georgia, has begun with removal of the original red clay and asphalt floor as well as preparations for interior resurfacing and elevator installation. Replacement of the exterior wooden shingles of the building is the next phase to be undertaken.

A new, 1,800-square-foot banquet kitchen facility will be constructed on the south side of the Morgan Center building. All catering and conference services will be handled by the Hotel.

When completed, the newly transformed facility will have 4,900 square feet of conference space on the main level and 1600 square feet on the mezzanine. Open and spacious, the lower level can accommodate groups of 400 people; 120 more, on the upper level Mezzanine. For more information about the Morgan Center for conferences, weddings or special events, contact the Jekyll Island Club Hotel Sales Department at 912-635-2600, extension 1070, or email sales@jekyllclub.com.

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