Although born and raised in southern California, Edie was always drawn to Vermont because of ancestral roots predating the Revolutionary War. She discovered October Country Inn as a guest on a Bike Vermont tour in the fall of 1990, and returned to Vermont yearly to pay her respects at the family graveyard, and stay at the inn. She moved to nearby Plymouth for a year in 1993, and worked at the inn. Then, in late 2000, unexpected changes impacting the previous innkeepers placed the future of the inn in question. Fearing that the inn’s unique character and charm would be lost, and ready to try something different, Chuck and Edie bought the inn, moved from California, and took over the helm.

Edie had been a Marketing Associate for Hewlett Packard’s L.A. office for several years. Looking for a quieter area in which to raise her five children, she had relocated to Morro Bay, California. It was there that Edie honed her innkeeping skills as the General Manager of the Baywood Bed and Breakfast Inn and Waterside Café. Chuck was born in South Dakota, but raised in southern California. He has always been independent, with a penchant for self-employment. Previously, he’s built and raced motorcycles, built and raced sailboats, built and fished commercial fishing boats, lived in Costa Rica and run a fiberglass manufacturing and custom wood furniture business, wrote for and published newspapers, earned a law degree, managed a boat yard, established and directed a non-profit association representing commercial fishermen, and lived and studied Spanish in Mexico. In short, Chuck has a lot of books and tools, and knows how to use them.

Edie, who is genuinely warm and outgoing, greets guests and makes sure that everybody is comfortable. Chuck runs the kitchen, and doesn’t say a lot. He is less visible than Edie, but you will appreciate his work every time you sit down to breakfast or dinner. Together, Chuck and Edie strive to uphold the October Country Inn’s long standing tradition of warm hospitality and delicious food. They love their little corner of Vermont and would be delighted to help you discover everything wonderful and unique about it.