About Us

David is a recovering journalist (25 years in the newspaper business) and a devoted (some say maniacal) sports fan. He usually manages to wangle enough time away from the inn each year to attend a few Red Sox games at Fenway Park and his cable default setting automatically goes to ESPN. His inn duties include cooking all breakfast entrees, functioning as second floor maid, chief laundry officer and ad copywriter for the marketing department. His other hobbies are collecting way more reading material from secondhand bookstores than any human being could finish in a single lifetime, yelling at TV political commentators who are sadly misinformed, and walking the beach at least five times a week regardless of the weather.

Seely is the Cove's chief financial officer, chairman of the maintenance department, head waitress and guru of baffling new technology (webmaster, blog queen and Blackberry addict). After 20 years as hospital social worker dealing with AIDS and oncology patients, she enjoys working in a field with a much higher survival rate for clients. For relaxation, she likes to engage in marathon sessions of spider (a computer solitaire game) and observe the competition for grub at the inn's four bird feeders. She is the visionary who first offered the crackpot notion that a 130-year-old building being run as a $50-a-week flophouse could be converted into a successful B&B. Those who expressed skepticism (including David) have been eating crow (tastes a bit like squab) ever since.