Passing Along A Dream: The Story Behind the Center Lovell Inn Essay Contest

The true story of Bil and Susie Mosca, and the inspiring story behind the first Center Lovell Inn Essay contest. A contemporary version of the Bob Newhart show, it chronicles the couple’s journey starting by finding their beloved home in YANKEE magazine as a featured “House for Sale”. The Mosca’s are married only ten months when they buy this 1805 mansard roof mansion, after a bank robbery and shoot out on the street corner below their inner city apartment. Starting on a shoestring budget, they build a business from scratch in a small village on the edge of the White Mountains. “Passing Along A Dream” is the story that spans twenty years at the Inn, giving away their world renown Inn. The search to find new Innkeepers, to love and cherish their “baby” culminates by conceiving of a unique essay contest. Essays from the contest are included. Along with the winning entry, Janice Sage ( the current Innkeeper) tells of her dream and how fate stepped in and brought her to Maine.