With the introduction of Scottish High Tea and a new guest room, this seemed like a good time to do something we’ve been thinking about for quite a while. We are renaming all the rooms in the main inn, using our family names. Allan’s father came to New England from Scotland – a town called Ardrossan, near Glasgow, while Jackie’s great-grandfather brought his family from Aberdeen to Barre, here in Central Vermont. He was a stonecutter in Scotland, and Barre was settled in large part by the Scots, who quarried the stone, and Italians, who carved it. (Barre’s Rock of Ages Granite Quarry is the world’s largest dimensional quarry and we recommend that all our summer guests visit it!) Allardyce and Wylie are Allan’s family names, and Walker and Christie are Jackie’s. It all fits nicely, since the May family, who bought the farm in 1834, worked it as a farm well into the 1900s – and May is also a Scottish name! For those of you that have visited May Farm in the past (welcome back!), the Blue Room is now the Allardyce Room; the Rose Room is Christie; and the May Room is Wylie. The names for Maple Leaf Cottage and Snowshoe Loft are unchanged. With the new room and a few other changes we are making May Farm can now accommodate up to 14 guests.