ABOUT US: YOUR INNKEEPERS, Mary Ramsey and Hugh, who is affectionately known as our resident raconteur. (It's Mary speaking on this web site. Since Hugh can't type, I'm the one to blame for a web site that goes on and on forever.) We tell guests, you don't KNOW how LONG until you try to open and read our EGuides!
(Section still under edit. Hope springs eternal that some day we'll finish everything on this web site.)
Having a B&B has been great fun. Even before turning our house into a bed and breakfast, we've always enjoyed having folks over to enjoy all the "stuff" in the house. We especially enjoy helping first time visitors enjoy our city to its fullest. Sharing travel stories over a meal is something we've done all our lives. Now we get to meet even more interesting folks than we used to, AND we get paid for what we love doing!! Who could ask for more?
Prior to retiring (ha, ha) to devote all my attention to the B&B, for 15 years, I was in healthcare administration, starting up new companies or divisions within an existing hospital or organization. My "better half" was an executive consultant, mostly in healthcare, too, until he became disabled.
Until the late 70s, we lived in Atlanta, Georgia. While our children were young there, we hosted exchange students from many countries: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Columbia, Brazil, France, and Afghanistan (in our minds, it will always be Persia).
Also in the 70s, we were Ambassadors on the inaugural trip of former President Jimmy Carter's Friendship Force. We traveled to Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, and the next year reciprocally hosted Newcastle visitors.
We are members of Servas, another cultural exchange program, and for many years served as hosts.
In the mid 90s, we turned our home into a B&B and initially specialized in hosting international travelers and the medical/academic community. Now, we host folks from ALL walks of life and all points of the compass.
We enjoy traveling, off-the-beaten path sightseeing and restaurants, books, art and history (when you meet us you'll see that we also enjoy eating). Learning about other cultures is very important to us.
That's all for now, folks. (The shortest text page on our web site.)
Guests keep asking why we don't have photo's of ourselves here. You asked for it, you got it . . .
Here is the raconteur (when he had more hair and was thinner).
and me (Mary)
(Nope. That's not me, NOW. It took a while, but I finally found an OLD photo of me the way I WISH I looked now.)
Here are photo's some guests took recently (yep. we're BOTH older, have gained weight, and lost hair. Being a floor sitter all my life, I'm not happy that I can no longer leap up into a standing position. We're grateful that Hugh is out of a wheelchair and though he could NEVER leap up, is at least ambulatory. No more high kicks for him!):
Some day we'll get around to posting up to date photo's of the children and grandchildren.
An ancient photo of our baby, the James Dean look a like (ha, ha. Not a baby any more)
Our oldest son and grandchildren several years ago
Our daughter and her family . . . Oops. They don't want their photo's on the web
Can't find any more (story of my life, photo's disappears into area on computer I can't locate. Probably just as well. If we could put all the photo's here we wanted to, your computer and mind would probably crash from overload).
Here is a blog our youngest son (our baby) has about Twin Peaks (Yep. The movie). Blog made it's way to travel section on national news: http://intwinpeaks.blogspot.com/
Gotta find YouTube section when local ABC TV filmed a segment here on Haunted New Orleans series.