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The Donomar Inn, Jeffersonville

since long-time sweethearts
Moira Donovan and Mary

Bouvier bought the former
Hapgood farm and began stripping
wallpaper, painting. ripping up
shag carpet (pink!) and laying
floors. And the Inn has been
“unofficially open" only since last
September, when a local lesbian
couple asked them to make rooms
available for their out—of—town civil
union guests.

But it’s definitely open now,
even though Bouvier calls it “a
work in progress." She was the
one who took the lead on the
renovation. Fortunately, there was
no need for extensive structural
repairs to the building that had
been a close-to-the-mountain
B & B before the two women
bought the building (but not the
business). Just the (not-so) minor
matter of creating roof where
three skylights alternately leaked
into or overheated the breakfast
area. . -

The other major challenge was
laying a new wood floor in the J.
Timothy Donovan bedroom (the
only masculine room in the house)
during which Bouvier found that
some previous owner had leveled
the floor with cement. “I had to
go get a masonry bit anddrill
every nail hole for the [historically
accurate] square-head nails
that weren't all that sharp,” she
remembered.

All the rooms are named for the
two women's female ancestors,
except the J. Timothy Donovan
room, named for Moira Donovan’s
dad. Personal history touches
create a family atmosphere: a quilt
made by Bouvier's grandmother
hangs on the wall and her treadle
Singer sewing machine (“The only
thing she ever owned.”) stands
in the room named for her, the
Mary McQuade room. In the Isabel
McAllister suite, the women have
put a round couch salvaged from
Donovan's great grandmother’s
housed and restored, along with
a scrapbook of early 20"‘ century
family photos and documents, and
paintings of tugboats: Donova.n’s
family owned and ran tugboats in
New York City and the ferry from

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that Mary McQuade hand painted
and caned and an easel she used.
The innisjustamile or so up

Route 108 (south) toward the

ski area at Smugglers Notch,

which is another five or six miles
along the road. Several of the six

. guest rooms have killer views of

Mount Mansfield over the lighted
gazebo and across expanses of
field and forest. Other amenities
include a whirlpool tub or two,

a hot tub on the deck, space for
snowshoeing and cross-country
skiing, gas fireplaces in several
rooms, a library, a formal dining
room, a living room with the
only television in the house, a
professional quality kitchen in
view of the breakfast area, decks
on both floors, and the tasteful
Victorian (not a contradiction in
terms!) decorating sense of the
innkeepers.

Speaking of the innkeepers,
they met on a blind date 15
years ago, and both have been
teachers — Donovan still teaches
high school English at People’s
Academy in Morrisville. Bouvier
spent four years teaching

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spouses (civilly united on
July 7, 2000) lived and raised
their three kids (Kyrie, now »
19; Marnica, now 22; and AIL:
now 26) in Waterville, a small
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