Tucked into a historic building in picturesque Staunton, Virginia, Jimmy Anderson’s Casual Gourmet offered inspired southern cuisine in a stylish, old-world European setting. Just 1.3 miles from the nationally-acclaimed Blackfriars Theater at the American Shakespeare Center and a short walk from ShenanArts at the nTelos Theatre, Jimmy Anderson’s Casual Gourmet hosted classical and jazz piano dinner – concerts featuring world class musicians at their 1963 Steinway Concert Grand.

The demands of running a pipe organ business and a busy restaurant meant Shenk and Wilhelmy weren’t seeing each other as much as they liked.  Therefore, they sold the restaurant and in 2014 they purchased a tiny house of 125 square feet as a way of pushing the reset button on their frazzled lives.  Tiny house minimalism gave them the opportunity to recharge, reset, and restore their vision and purpose.  Shenk began blogging about her experiences in her tiny haven-home, followed shortly by beginning work on a novel as well as the book that became Kitchen Simplicity.  Wilhelmy continued his work as a certified pipe organ builder and is currently working on a project that will bring his original design glass pipe organ pipes into a congregational setting for a client in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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