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Click to enlarge Chef Marie in the formal dining room.

Click to enlarge Scott & Marie

In June 1996 Scott & Marie opened the Plantation B & B.  After 9 years of 24/7 at the Plantation, they purchased a home 10 miles away and lived there for 3 and 1/2 years commuting to work to prepare breakfast each morning and had the employees perform the evening Inn sitting duties.  Due to the current economic times, on March 1st, 2009 all but one employee was laid off and Scott & Marie moved back to the Plantation to work full time once again.

Marie is Chef, gardener and muralist around the Plantation.

When Marie was a child, she liked to play in the dirt, play with her food and play with paint and crayons. After a long hiatus of taking life seriously, Marie returned to her childhood loves. She does not plan to grow up. While she is playing, she feels she is more therapeutic for her guests than she was during her 30 years of nursing. The dream of having a bed and breakfast took 15 years of plotting and planning. After sending the kids off to college and getting her new husband, Scott, enthused, it was time to take flight. It took a year and a half of searching and false landings to find our paradise in the rough. We've been going mach speed ever since. In spite of the usual trials of an old house and a new business, we've never looked back. The closest we'll ever come to "real" jobs again is in our nightmares. We love the awesome parks. We love the climate (no more of Marie's wrecking her car in Connecticut ice and snow). And, we love the "dear hearts and gentle people of our home town" here.

Scott has enjoyed three different careers before Marie convinced him to become an Innkeeper. He was an Air Traffic Controller for ten years until President Ronald Reagan fired him, along with 13,000 PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) union members, for going on strike against the Government in 1981. His second career path was as an entrepreneur. In 1982 Scott and another fired controller started a pizza franchise in Oklahoma known as Gezeppi's Pizza. The franchise grew to eighteen restaurants, of which Scott owned two and was general manager of five. 
In 1989 he sold out and moved to Connecticut to enjoy a six month sabbatical. Scott and Marie started dating shortly after his arrival and in just three months he proposed marriage. Marie proclaimed that she would not be engaged to someone who was unemployed. So, he got a job in management with CVS Pharmacy, got married and soon learned of Marie's dream of owning a Bed and Breakfast. This is definitely the best job Scott has ever had, not only because he doesn't have to wear a tie or shoes, but he can pursue his passion of photography. Over 100 photos can be seen adorning the walls of the Plantation.

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