The Inn at Long Lake

The Inn at Long Lake 16 Room Bed & Breakfast Inn off the Naples Causeway, Naples, Maine A unique Inn celebrating America's Grand 1920's & 1930's era.

Each of our elegantly appointed guest rooms is inspired by an icon of Classic Hollywood and American Music scene of the period! Our Honeymoon Suite is named The Glenn Miller Suite; other rooms honoring such luminaries as Cole Porter, Mae West, George and Ira Gershwin, and Louis Armstrong !!

02/01/2026

No words to aptly describe me handling Winter isolation.

Please watch to the end (25 second video).

Hi, Everyone. Winter's icy touch has descended upon New England. Tourist season has been over for almost two months now....
12/23/2025

Hi, Everyone. Winter's icy touch has descended upon New England. Tourist season has been over for almost two months now.
I'd say that it is "quiet" or "dead" this time of year. The truth is Anything feels that way in comparison to the Summer.

The population has grown considerably since The Inn at Long Lake and I were together (well over 12 years). The lighted line of traffic snaking from the west to the east can be seen at as early as 4am. I know this because I've cleaned a local business for 5 years now (the account was a great gift to me by my former Cleaning Genies boss, Eileen Ross, and they want me gone by their employee's morning arrival time).

This period of seasonality can be challenging. People are tucked away in their homes and people, whether newly-arrived or a fixture in their Lake Region town, turn inward. The inspection of self cqn look like a Reiki master sitting cross-legged on the floor centering his energy and oneness with the world. It can, also, be like Jack in Stephen King's "The Shining."

Admittedly, I was so zonked at the end of each lodging season. I didn't wait or long for November to come. Innkeeping, like any job, feels (and, is) better while it is moving. You get your stride, but that pace was beautifully severe at the inn. Each year, as business faltered or hung lazily close to the previous year's revenue, I was always pretty proud of myself for doing the best that I could, but as years passed, I found myself more and more tired.

As the dismal financial markers of the 2008 recession affected us more and more, I would try to look at everything objectively and still express my gratitude to my Higher Power. I was getting worn to a nub, slowly with age and familiarity. By December, those feelings hover over you like dense morning fog on the surface of a lake. Of course, I had Sebastian to love and pat all Winter (and I'm so grateful to that angel for his wonderful companionship during my innkeeping experience. "Sebs" was not a "bed dog." He liked being between my sleeping bed and the door... truly, him being protective over me was another reason to tear up, as I am writing this, for the gift he was to me.

Once in a while, I'd trick him to sleep on the bed, which he would oblige begrudgingly on occasion. One of my favorite things was to not rush up to the kitchen to start inn breakfast right when I awoke. The mornings I'd just lay there snd watch Sebastian sleeping, breathing lightly. If I did see his eyes open, look at me, and give his tail a sincere, but slowly-awakened tail wag, I couldn't be more happy.

So, you get my point. A former Innkeeper reminiscing over missing a former pet can really bring you into the path of the next snowplow truck. And, yeah, since he has been gone, life felt like staring out into the January Winter night. Too still. Too far away, and, yet, right down into your heart. Too many reasons to feel all of the fully and, still, there would never be a day to not savor every one of them.

(To be continued...)

Hi, Everyone! Autumn is unveiling its colors here in Western Maine. This is my absolute favorite season of the year. I'v...
10/22/2025

Hi, Everyone! Autumn is unveiling its colors here in Western Maine. This is my absolute favorite season of the year. I've included some images from my travels around the area.

All is good here. I hope that you all are equally well. They say that it's going to be a normal winter in New England. I'm preparing as quickly as I can. We were spoiled with the last few (light snow) winters.

Just wanted to check in and say HI!

Love and Hugs,
Keith

Yay! Winter is over. I've started walking a few times each week.I love being outside in my nice neighborhood. Hope every...
05/19/2025

Yay! Winter is over. I've started walking a few times each week.
I love being outside in my nice neighborhood.

Hope everyone is well!

Keith

The Inn at Long Lake's owner prior to me (Buddy Marcum) once commented: "I've never seen someone get so excited to make ...
10/15/2024

The Inn at Long Lake's owner prior to me (Buddy Marcum) once commented: "I've never seen someone get so excited to make cookies and treats!"

My first cookbook read was purchased at one of those Scholastic Bookmobiles that came to my elementary school each year. It gave a cookie recipe for each month of the year.

I so loved having homemade treats for the 3pm check-in each day. One guest, a lumber sales rel from British Columbia, came to the inn tired after traveling all day from her home. When I started my "check-in speech," she stood staring at me as emotionless a a possible. I did a "Vanna White" towards the plate of cookies I had just made. She smiled and said: "Oh my Lord! This is like Grandma's House!"

I replied: "You're gonna make me cry!" and, the truth was, she almost did! We both broke into laughter. It remains one of the beat compliments that I ever received (I loved both of my grandmothers so much!).

These days, I attempt to keep trying new recipes as I see them. Yes, the treasured recipes I still do. And, yes, I spread the batch around to neighbors and community contacts. Great fun becomes better when you don't have 36 cookies youve eaten alone to exercise off the next day! 😁

THE PROPERTY BUTLER page (oddly) disappeared when I took a break from Facebook this Summer.It is now published ...
10/15/2024

THE PROPERTY BUTLER page (oddly) disappeared when I took a break from Facebook this Summer.

It is now published and your support (in a Like or Page Share) would be very appreciated.

Thank you!

Rakey, Rakey, Stanley, Stackey...Transitioning from an Innkeeper to other work has been a bit more complex to me than on...
10/11/2024

Rakey, Rakey, Stanley, Stackey...

Transitioning from an Innkeeper to other work has been a bit more complex to me than one might think.

Serving all of you (and countless others) was, truly, a dream come true for this New England boy. When you're the boss and, then, needed to work for others has ushered in some disconcerting (and epic) failures/life lessons.

One of the responses I've chosen (after my emotions settled a wee bit) was evoking my Property Services business called "The Property Butler." My accounts are primarily commercial cleaning gigs at present. I enjoy the same work (basically) that I did at the Inn for guests...just now, I don't have an $8,000/month lurking behind my back anymore.

Another (weirdly new in my life) skill that I discovered that I possess is wood stacking. Maybe it was all the arts & crafts and puzzles I did as a young boy, but there is something very cool about this type of project.

Here in Maine, many people (including me with a farmhouse with no heating system) heat with wood. I've stacked wood for both some neighbors and myself for winter preparedness. As the year wanes into the gorgeous Autumn of the Northeast, the smell of wood coming from neighborhood chimneys is an annual tradition sublime in its sensory goodness.

I'll wrap this up with some wisdom: Never underestimate the newness found when life peels back the layers of you! You are meant to reveal aspects of yourself...and, as you discover yourself, you will be delighted with yourself. Yes....even if you need some practice, more information, and a chat with your former beliefs about all you can do and learn may be necessary in that process.

That's all from Western Maine.

Took a walk around in my neighborhood to manage some depression today. It really helped!
06/03/2024

Took a walk around in my neighborhood to manage some depression today. It really helped!

"COOKING INN STYLE"...LRTV COOKING Series BLOOPER #86We were a low-budget, public access TV series. I wanted to empower...
01/10/2024

"COOKING INN STYLE"...LRTV COOKING Series BLOOPER #86

We were a low-budget, public access TV series. I wanted to empower my local Western Maine neighbors to try homecooking.

My Director had 2 missions: One was to add more original programming. The second was to shake me down while filming with his off-color humor.

This one (during my Mother's Day episode with own Mom) involved a lapse in what I was making and a bowl of white powder.
"Is this baking powder or baking soda, Ma?"

A voice from behind one of the cameras says "It's Co***ne!"

I lost it laughing, of course! My Mom did, too. We tagged it on the end of the episode. 😁

Just a note to wish you all a great Summer's end. I welcome the cooler season in only one aspsct: Baking is sooo nice to...
09/30/2023

Just a note to wish you all a great Summer's end. I welcome the cooler season in only one aspsct: Baking is sooo nice to do during these upcoming months.
Anyway, sending Love and Hugs from Naples, Maine!

Address

15 Lake House Road
Naples, ME
04055

Telephone

+12076936226

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Inn at Long Lake posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to The Inn at Long Lake:

Shortcuts

Featured

Share

Category