11/04/2026
This is John, our innkeeper. If you spot him in a pink shirt, it’s on purpose. 🌸
John learned hospitality at the Green Boundary Club in Aiken, South Carolina. It’s a members-only club inside a private home built in the 1920s. As beverage manager, he built the w**e list and cellar from scratch, then became general manager. His favorite part of the job was talking with guests over dinner every night.
From there, he ran a w**e boutique in Highlands and ran events and the artisan marketplace at the Southwest Virginia Cultural Center. He also ran a year-round kitchen at a camp in Lake Toxaway, where he found his true passion: helping young people toward a brighter future. Later, at a private resort in Highlands, he was butler, chauffeur and dinner planner, and hosted w**e picnics and wilderness excursions too.
For the past 12 years, he’s also tended bar at Augusta National for the Masters.
He loves history, hiking and kayaking, and volunteers with the Terrapin Mountain trail club in Cashiers on trail maintenance.
We are very lucky to have him with us, and thought he deserved a shoutout.
