It occurred to me, as leaves drily rustled under my steps and the sun broke through naked trees to throw shadows across my path, that I really don’t know or understand what aspiring innkeepers take away when they attend a seminar. What made me think of that was conversations I’ve had lately with seminar graduates, when IRead More
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Guests, and how to keep them coming
When we owned the Three Mountain Inn in Jamaica, Vermont, I was confronted with the fact that I had never been an innkeeper, and really had no idea what the daily schedule for an innkeeper would look like. I quickly learned how to smile (and mean it), be it on the telephone, or greeting aRead More
Values of Being an Innkeeper
Like much of rural Vermont, our farm stays about ten degrees cooler than downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, which challenges anyone living in our area to think about what is important to them about their life? The snowfall has been infrequent, but once it starts, shoveling ourselves out three or four feet later is a challenge. SnowshoeingRead More