58 min

Hotel Legends: Blackberry Farm with Mary Celeste Beall Passport to Everywhere with Melissa Biggs Bradley

    • Places & Travel

From a six-room country inn Mary Celeste and her family have created a business and a brand at the pinnacle of American hospitality. They championed authenticity long before it was a buzzword, learned how not just to thrive on but also to survive their success and explosive growth, and survived as well the sudden death, at 39, of the company's head, Mary Celeste's husband, Sam, the son of Blackberry's founders. Their story is now a legend in the world of luxury travel, and no one tells it better than Mary Celeste.

From a six-room country inn Mary Celeste and her family have created a business and a brand at the pinnacle of American hospitality. They championed authenticity long before it was a buzzword, learned how not just to thrive on but also to survive their success and explosive growth, and survived as well the sudden death, at 39, of the company's head, Mary Celeste's husband, Sam, the son of Blackberry's founders. Their story is now a legend in the world of luxury travel, and no one tells it better than Mary Celeste.

58 min