By Nancy R. Hinchliff

In 1994, on the age of sixty four with out company adventure and intensely little start-up funds, Nancy Hinchliff buys a turn-of-the-century mansion in Louisville, Kentucky and turns it right into a captivating Victorian resort. via sheer tenacity, she learns the enterprise whereas effectively dealing with one mishap after one other. An admittedly asocial retired institution instructor, she reinvents herself as an lodge keeper. The reader is drawn into this funny and fascinating story because the writer wields her manner round cantankerous contractors, harrowing housekeepers, and no scarcity of odd and engaging site visitors and occasions. via her gathered tales, Hinchliff supplies readers a private, in-depth, and sincere examine what it’s prefer to be an lodge keeper as she candidly describes her twenty-year trip of self discovery.

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