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to public school."
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supper. There was
never an incident”
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other women authors of the late-
Victorian and early modem era.
“Mary even worked at a used '
bookstore. We ended up with
several thousand books in a little
tiny farmhouse.

“The irony is that when we
moved here, we got rid of a lot
of the books. And we still have
hundreds of books in boxes that
we haven’t yet found space for,”
Donovan added.

Innkeeping is a bit like
teaching, the two women agreed. -
“You’re on all the time,” Bouvier
said. “But we're used to that.
And we get breaks — we’re pretty
booked on weekends, especially
holidays, but during the week we
have fewer guests or none.”

“We like people,” Donovan

 
   
  
    
 
 
  

added. “And We want to share
the house. Throughout this
[renovation] process, the house
has been a presence of its own.” It
was built in 1865, Bouvier related,
by George Holmes, who had also
built barns and covered bridges in
the area. “We’ve got 3-foot-wide
beams under here, I’m sure,” she
concluded. »

Fortunately, Bouvier loves to
cook, and Donovan declared, “I
love to make beds. I love to do -
laundry and set the tables," all
repetitive tasks of innkeeping.

The Inn is listed on several
travel and B&B sites online,
where most of their reservations
originate, including purpleroofs.
com, iloveinns.com, and
gayvermontinnscom.

“We hope to be comfortable,"
Donovan said of their clientele,.
“so anyone who comes can be
comfortable here," whether they
are gay or lesbian, bi, tra.ns or
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