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finishing touches. The public rooms are spacious and cheerful with colorful plaids and floral chintzes. The heart pine floors are covered with oriental rugs. Each guestroom is elegantly decorated in more subdued colors.
Kuhn said to give herself a deadline, she began taking reservations for the last weekend of September. The day before the first guests were scheduled to arrive, she said 60 workmen were frantically trying to put the place in order.
With many things left undone the night before her opening weekend, Kuhn said a woman identifying herself as the director of the corporate public relations for the Ritz Carleton Hotels telephoned and made reservations for herself and an ambassador. Keeping her sense of humor, she thought that this could only be a friend pulling a joke on her, but she went along with the gag. The woman did indeed turn out to be who she said she was and had such a good time she wrote a glowing letter about the inn to several magazines.
A former CBS News producer and newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., Kuhn borders on celebrity status in this small community. When working for the Washington Star she met Patrick Oliphant, the paper’s political cartoonist, whom she later married. When they were traveling, she said they would stay in the best hotels in this country and abroad, which gave her ideas for her inn. They were married for 15 years, but are no longer together.
When asked why she changed careers, she explained that back in her college days,
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