Guests are no more fashionably dressed than for an appointment with the optometrist. She looks faintly stagey, a petite woman treated well by her years. She and her late husband have been the only owners since 1948. A certain style has settled in with an appreciative clientele that returns winter after winter. Guests share a long lobby that is more like a living room that bedrooms open onto.
Coffee perks all morning.
Guests bring breakfast foods from their refrigerators and chew over plans for the day. It is a place for bridge or for reading, watching TV, tending the plants. Some evenings the crowd pitches in for a potluck dinner using Faye's kitchen. There is the little feeling of a congregate living facility. That's because familiarity prevails.