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Connie Russell on What It Takes to Lead a Property That Dates Back to 1889 and Still Feels Like It Belongs to the Community
Connie Russell, General Manager of Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine, started in hospitality doing landscaping at his father’s motel, cooked under a Swiss chef in Western Maine, and worked his way up through a dozen Ocean Properties locations before landing at a 230-acre waterfront resort in 1999 that dated back to 1889 and needed a full refresh. He has been there ever since — through two economic recessions, a pandemic, and a month in 2023 when he lost three members of his team in thirty days while a conference of four thousand was three weeks away.
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