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August 14th, 2012 by Eben Viens
As many of you already know, over the past few years on Veterans Day, B&B’s and Inns across the US have offered active and retired veterans free lodging for one night. This was started a few years ago as a grass roots program by an innkeeper in West Virginia that has taken off. 2012 should […]
March 9th, 2012 by Eben Viens
“After raising families and pursuing successful careers, we are fulfilling a long standing dream of running a bed and breakfast”. This is a typical statement from empty nester innkeepers of a certain age, you may be one of them. Rick and I certainly were when we purchased our bed and breakfast, our son was in […]
June 23rd, 2011 by Eben Viens
Younger audiences are consumed with ‘cool hunting’ and Lewiston/Auburn Maine is cool. What is ‘cool hunting’? According to Wikipedia it is a term coined in the 1990s referring to a new breed of marketing professionals, called ‘cool hunters’. It is their job to make observations and predictions in changes of new and exciting cultural trends. […]
March 10th, 2011 by Eben Viens
When looking for Maine Bed and Breakfasts for sale one often thinks of Bar Harbor. It is the iconic Maine coastal town for visitors to our great state. Even though we live in Kennebunkport and are quite partial to our bit of coastal paradise, many folks think of Bar Harbor and Acadia when they think […]
June 17th, 2010 by Rick Wolf
After Peter’s recent posting about the simple joys of sitting on the porch and the numerous comments it elicited, I thought I would share a brief ‘reading’ with you…one I wished I had written, but will be pleased to share with you instead. A couple of weeks ago, Jan and I went to the wedding […]
September 18th, 2009 by Eben Viens
One of the joys of being part of The B&B Team is the opportunity we have to work with great Innkeepers at great Inns in great locations. Many of the locations are in well known ‘destination locations’ and some are in less known ‘undiscovered’ locales. Eastport, Maine is a small town on an island accessible by a causeway and […]
