Open for the Season

<p><strong>Open for the Season</strong> first published in 1950 is the entertaining informative memoir by Karl Abbott of his family's long-time ownership and operation of hotels inns and resorts from New Hampshire to Boston South Carolina and Florida. Beginning with his childhood in his family's New Hampshire resort The Uplands Abbott would go on to manage or own popular hotels inns and resorts such as the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande Florida the Sagamore Resort in Lake George New York and the Hotel Vendome in Boston. Abbott paints a vivid picture of life at his properties as well as providing insights into daily management stories of his guests and workers and what it took to be successful in the hotel business.</p>