We were recently cited in BedandBreakfast.com as two among a group of twenty innkeepers who have been in business twenty or more years. We have met all kinds of folk here from all over the US and the world – a fantastic mix of young and old and in-between with all sorts of different careers and interests past and present. We hear so many great stories. We have so many to tell. When we started here as innkeepers we used to be the age that more and more of our guests are now. We see so many late twenties and young thirties who are brilliant helping me with some of the more baffling aspects of Pinterest and Instagram. I thought these young people were uniformly called millennials, but within that group of twenty-somethings I am learning of sub-groups that are proud to hashtag themselves as yuccies.
This is a hipster/yuppie crossbreed – the Labradoodle of social stereotypes, who apparently aspire to be successful like yuppies and creative like hipsters. They are fluent in emoji, and pleased to be recognized by BuzzFeed as people who FaceTime their pets, and selfie stick like mad even from places as un-hip-happening as Deerfield. They care about well-being and are delighted with the eat local philosophy of Champney’s, because they place emphasis on food and how you are what you eat. They seem to be all about food, fitness, and fashion. They are quirky and cute, and tell me I just have to watch Game of Thrones and Aziz Ansari. The time has gone by so fast!