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Innkeeper Interviews

A collection of exclusive interviews with professional bed and breakfast innkeepers from around the world. They discuss their inns, their region, and their reasons for getting into the innkeeping business.

Becoming Innkeepers Through the Back Door

An interview with Art Oswald, innkeeper of Old Carriage Inn in Shipshewana, Indiana.

Blazing Trails in Casper, Wyoming

An interview with Don and Sherry Frigon, innkeepers of Durbin Street Inn in Casper, Wyoming.

Boat and Breakfast in San Francisco

An interview with Jack and Gayle Carpentier, innkeepers at the MV Athena in San Francisco Bay.

Healthy and Natural by Design

An interview with Marc Haberman, innkeeper of Natural Bed and Breakfast in Tucson, Arizona.

Innkeeping as a Post-Retirement Career

An interview with Bill Wickman, innkeeper of Cottonwood Cottage Bed and Breakfast in Salem, Oregon.

Life in the Inn at Mt. Hope

An interview with Marilyn Fiedler, innkeeper of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire's official bed and breakfast in Mt. Hope, Pennsylvania.

Living in a Painted Lady

An interview with Sherrie Hansen, innkeeper of Blue Belle Inn in St. Ansgar, Iowa.

Natural Born Innkeepers

An interview with Steven and Suzanne Savlov, innkeepers of Peacock Hill Guest House in Gig Harbor, Washington.

Notes from an Innkeeper's Journal

An interview with the author of Notes from an Innkeeper's Journal, a book about the life of a bed and breakfast innkeeper.

Pastoral New England Inn

An interview with Roger and Linda Cole, innkeepers of Brookside Meadows Country Bed and Breakfast in Middlebury, Vermont. Since this interview, the Coles have retired from innkeeping.

Quintessential Vermont Inn

An interview with Gretel Schuck, innkeeper of The Pond House in Woodstock, Vermont.

Running a B&B in Adventurers' Country

An interview with Chuck and Fern White, innkeepers of Adventurers' Country Bed and Breakfast 15 miles east of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Staying in Utopia

An interview with Taydie Drummond, innkeeper of A. Drummond's Ranch Bed and Breakfast near Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Thomas Shepherd Inn

An interview with the innkeeper of the historic Thomas Shepherd Inn Bed and Breakfast, built in 1868 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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