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“What we really want to do is have people come here to stay and to experience the area and to have this experience in the restaurant as well,” Sims said. “We feel we have a very beginning part of the wave of a new era. It’s an insight into a guest that is coming and staying, and really digging Sullivan County, New York. To have 19 rooms with 40 people (as they did on a recent winter weekend) all having a great time, all talking about coming back, all telling their friends and the people they work with that they had a great time in Sullivan County, is very different from anything that I’ve experienced up here. That’s what’s new and fresh. It doesn’t take much to get on board with the idea that peo- ple like us for what we are. We have to tell our story the right way. We have an early window on something that will be a much more common sentiment in the area than it has been in a long time. It’s been a lot of fun for me. Guests walk in and they want us to be what we are and happy and excited and that’s special.” Kirsten added that the guest is looking for something authentic and that they enjoy “the simple things that we take for granted. They love going farm touring. It’s things like ice fishing and ramp picking and the Trout Parade that our guests are looking for. Those things that for a long time people viewed as something people wouldn’t want or almost as a blemish. We’re selling what we are.” They have empowered their staff to “exhaust every resource they have to make guests happy. We want to surprise our guests with our ability to say ‘we hear you, we hope that makes you happy, if not what can I do for you?’ People aren’t used to that.” Sims said, “Growing up here and now becoming more intimate with the his- tory of the area, it’s all there. Our history is in hospitality and we got away from it in a big way. We’ve got to go back to what we’re known for and it will all, in our opinion, kind of correct. The economy, the soul of the place, the pride of the place. What could be better than to say that you live in a place that people come to and have a great experience?”
Anne Hart is the proprietress of Domesticities and the Cutting Garden in Youngsville, where you can obtain fresh, unusual flowers when they bloom if you don’t happen to have some in your own garden. The only truck they travel on is yours. You can also find great antiques, col- lectibles, gifts and funny and warm greeting cards. She welcomes her new neighbors.
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