Christine and Ed Edelson look forward to
being your Innkeepers and to making your stay at the Cornucopia at Oldfield a memorable
one. For years
they dreamt of owning a
bed and breakfast where they could help people relax and enjoy some of life's true
pleasures - quiet time by themselves or with new friends in beautiful surroundings. They both have had extensive experience in
customer service related professions and look forward to using that experience and their
skills at Cornucopia at Oldfield.
Christine and Ed have had the opportunity to live in many places. They met while teaching at a private school in
Connecticut some 30 years ago. From there
they moved to Vail, Colorado where Ed worked in hotel services and Christine opened a
much needed nursery school and day care center. A
few years later they moved back east to Ithaca, New York where Ed received his engineering
degree from Cornell University and Christine taught preschool.
Ed’s work took them to Colombia,
MD; Pasadena, CA; and Kennewick, WA.
In 1980 the family
moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
Ed completed his Master’s degree at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Ed
began his career with an international oil company
and the family moved to Morristown, NJ. During
that time, Christine focused on raising their three children. She also became an International Board Certified
Lactation Consultant 1985. When a company
move took them to South Florida, Christine started her own company – “The
Breastfeeding Connection" – and soon developed a reputation as a leader in her
field.
Ed took on many different
assignments working in the Caribbean and Central America
Division – marketing planning, public affairs and eventually
General Manager of the Bermuda Division. This
forced them to move to Bermuda for four years.
They returned to the United States for Ed’s
final assignment in Northern
Virginia. While
there, Christine continued as a lactation consultant at
Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Their gracious Bermuda home with the
veranda overlooking Fairylands Creek gave them the
opportunity to host many relatives and friends.
This was what convinced Christine and Ed that they really
wanted to continue to pursue their dream of becoming
Innkeepers at their own bed and breakfast.
When Ed became eligible for early retirement and Cornucopia at
Oldfield was up for sale, they knew the timing was finally perfect -- the dream became a
reality.
Since coming to Southbury, Ed and
Christine have become active members of the community. Ed
serves as a commissioner on the Southbury's Inland Wetland
Commission and the Southbury Historic Commission. Ed
is the Executive Director of the Pomperaug River
Watershed Coalition. (www.pomperaug.org) a
local organization committed to developing and disseminating
sound science for preserving the high quality of water and
watercourses in the valley. Ed is also a docent at the
Glebe House Museum, a historic home in Woodbury that
tells an important chapter in our nation's history regarding the separation of church and
state. Ed has also taught economics at near-by Post
University and consulted for the Education Connection,a
regional education service center on Open Technology for
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