One of the great things that we honestly didn't expect was the amazing diversity of the guest we've had this far. Let's face it, when you open up a Bed & Breakfast near Cooperstown, NY, you would think that you'd get a lot of Baseball tourists up here visiting their Mecca. 
And yes, we've had a good amount of baseball tourism going on, but we've also had opera fans, a guest who happened to be doing a mini-family reunion in Cooperstown, but this weekend brought a new and differently awesome group. All of them headed down to Brewery Ommegang to see a band called Brand New. 
We weren't familiar with the band and Brendan, as usual, went into research mode. He found out that the band, like him, is from Long Island, and were/are part of the wave of punk rock/pop bands from the turn of the millennium. He described them to one of the guests as a mixture of Blink 182 and Muse thrown together. She said that was pretty accurate.
It's not our exact cup of tea, but it was worth a listen and since some of their albums are available on Amazon Prime, we can listenwith no monetary effect.
Either way, good conversation, and new friends were made. Each one of the guests were a pleasure to be around. We hope Brand New makes Ommegana an annual event.

A few weeks ago, as many of you know, we welcomed a houseful of opera fans to the Greene House Inn. Anne was one of our guests. She is not only an opera fan but also avid blogger. Earlier this week, she wrote about her experiences here in the Central Leatherstocking region, and wrote a wonderful review of our place. Please, if you have the opportunity, check out this link and see the kind words she had to say about us. You also get to see one of our first public pictures of our mascot, our 11 year old Chihuahua Pomeranian mix, Sasha.
Thank you Anne for such a great review. We hope to see you again soon.

The hibiscus plant in the front is amazing this year. Here's the proof.

Admittedly, Tony and Brendan are not golfers. Unless it's got a windmill, and a 19th hole where you can win a free game, we personally never found the allure of golfing.
But we realize that there are many folks out there who would love to take a road trip and sample some new courses. For you, we present some of the public golf courses in the area. Obviously, Brendan and Tony cannot vouch for the quality of the courses, but they are nevertheless here. 
We will be adding them to our What's Around By Activity section of the web site. So please investigate, and book a night with us and golf to your heart's content during the day.

Another great weekend is finishing up here at the Greene House Inn. On Friday night, we had a wonderful mother and son come and visit us from Boston. Their full intent was to visit Cooperstown on Saturday. The nine year old son was chomping at the bit to head out, but still wanted to show off his wonderful baseball card collection. We are pretty confident that they had a great time, and even more wonderful time at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
After they headed out, we were getting ourselves ready for our opera fans. The Glimmerglass Opera is celebrating its 40th year with a wonderful festival this weekend. We welcomed our first international guests, from England and Canada, as well as a couple of gentlemen from New York City. A great mix of folks with a lot of good company, and once again, we made sure they were well fed and well rested for their adventures in Operaland.
Of course, as you can see from the pictures, we welcomed them all in typical Greene House Inn style.
The Glimmerglass Opera summer season continues throughout the rest of August. Please be sure to check out their website to see if there's anything of interest for you. And of course, if there is, come by and stay with us.