About the Innkeepers at Atlantean – Heidi and Gary
We are very appreciative of your interest in Atlantean. It is a truly magnificent house, and, we believe, a wonderful Bed and Breakfast. We are absolutely thrilled to be its stewards, and delighted with the privilege of being your hosts. Ensuring your visit to Bar Harbor and Acadia is as comfortable, fun, and rewarding as it can possibly be is our objective. If you are coming to Bar Harbor for your vacation, then you surely understand what motivated us to move here to live. Always our most favorite place, nowhere else is there such a lively, pleasant village in the middle of such grandeur as is Mount Desert Island. Finding Atlantean, in 2004 completed the dream for us. Now, we look forward to
welcoming you to our home, and to showing you how honored we are to have you as our guests.
Owning and operating a Bed and Breakfast is a wonderful life. We feel so fortunate to meet you, the terrific and fascinating people who come to stay with us. We love learning of your travels and experiences and hearing about your homes, all over the globe. And surprisingly to us, some even find our own story to be interesting as well! That makes little sense to us, but here it is, in brief:
Heidi is a western Massachusetts native. Having moved about a bit during her youth, her other family members have all settled into southern New Hampshire and Maine. Gary, on the other hand is a born Mainiac (the preferred term) from Bangor, where his parents still reside, though he spent many years in exile. He has sisters here in Maine and in western Massachusetts, and two adult daughters, presently in New York. We met while both working in that government/industry engineering universe outside Boston, and lived in the very suburban hamlet of Groton. After years of daydreaming about better lifestyles, we decided in early 2004 to take steps to stop the dreaming and start the living. No place other than Bar Harbor was ever a consideration, and after visiting Atlantean, no other house would do, either.
So we left our engineering careers in Massachusetts, and brought Bessie and Ditto, our seemingly ageless puppies, and Petey the phantom cat to this heavenly place. Petey was a little slow to warm to the idea, but now happily rules over the basement level of Atlantean, the laundry and our owners’ quarters being his realm. Bessie and Ditto, on the other hand, have taken to their new roles as official greeters with glee. The daily 5:30 AM walk on the Shore Path just may be the highlight of their day (next to breakfast, of course), and certainly starts ours off in the proper manner, as well.
We hope our love of this fabulous place infects you, and that you, too, find the draw irresistible, and become frequent guests here in our house.
The Atlantean Inn is located in the village of Bar Harbor, Maine, near Acadia National Park. For more information or to make a reservation, please contact us at:
