Meet Your Innkeepers
Mike and De Kennedy are natural, outgoing hosts who know how to make their guests feel welcome while never imposing on them. Having traveled extensively, and worked in several careers, they have an appreciation of new and exciting experiences; this makes them particularly well suited to helping their guests explore the Boothbay area. As soon as they set eyes on The Five Gables, they knew they had found what they had always been looking for. They have owned the inn since 1995.Mike, the inn's breakfast chef, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. He has worked on freighters and ocean liners, on a communal farm in Israel, and on a road crew building roads in the Sinai desert. He has also sold an artist's drawings on the beach on the Greek Island of Rhodes, worked with an American theatre group in Paris, France, and served as a cook and deck-hand on a four-masted schooner in the Caribbean. He and De came to Maine from Atlanta, Georgia, where he renovated old homes, performed in TV commercials, and gave historic tours of the city.
De is an artist who also has wide travel experience. She and Mike spent several months backpacking throughout Southeast Asia and
crewed on a private yacht in French Polynesia for 3 months. De's hand painted murals and furniture add an artistic touch throughout the inn. Having spent a decade in the corporate world, specializing in personnel management, she is also adept at seeing that the daily workings of the inn go smoothly.
De comes from an old Southern family, in fact some of the inn's china and silver belonged to her great-great-great grandfather, who bought it on the Savannah docks, back in the 1830s. Raised in Atlanta in the time honored tradition of Southern hospitality, De has always enjoyed entertaining guests. All her adult life, she has organized large house parties at her family's antebellum home in the North Georgia hills, that was built in 1853, as a summer retreat from Savannah, by her great-great aunt. The pleasure she took in turning back the years to a more genteel, leisurely past for her family and friends inspired her to capture that same atmosphere in this wonderful Maine coast bed and breakfast The Five Gables in East Boothbay, ME.