Priscilla had a career at the Inn that spanned more than three decades. She was working part-time at the Northborough Post Office when she applied for a position at the Inn in 1925. She began working as a hostess and, as part of her job, contributed to many of the daily entries in the Front Door/Hostess Diaries. She was well known for her depth of knowledge of the Inn’s history.

Looking back at her time at the Inn, Priscilla wrote: “To interpret the historical and literary importance of the Inn, to describe the furnishings, the way they were made and their usefulness in Colonial life, was something I enjoyed doing and came naturally to me. I talked to groups of a hundred or more people and to classrooms of school children on a day’s outing. Individuals came from all over the world to what someone has called this ‘Educational Pleasure.’ [...] Except for an interval of six years (1930-1936) when I worked in the Library and Museum of the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., I spent, as I said before, twenty-seven years at The Wayside Inn - as Hostess, Curator and Assistant Manager.”

She was present during the 1955 fire and saved many of the Inn’s important objects and documents from ruin. She worked on the restoration project for three years before marrying Frederick Henry Hermann Rixmann in 1958 and moved away from Sudbury. Priscilla’s vast knowledge of The Wayside Inn is still felt in the archives today.

Daniel was an instructor at the Wayside Inn Boys School (WIBS). Originally from Prince Edward Island in Canada, he lived in Sudbury near the school. There, Daniel ran a salvage yard and taught woodworking. Under Blue’s supervision, students learned to build their own desks, cabinets, and other furniture, as well as favors for the Inn’s tables at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Boyer worked as the business manager of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1920s. After Ford purchased the Inn, he assigned Boyer to oversee the renovation work, where subsequently he became Innkeeper and his wife, Ruth, worked as a hostess. He managed the Inn until the early 1930s.

Muriel worked at the Inn for 14 years, from 1927 to 1941. In addition to her regular hostess duties and showing the property to school groups, Muriel was a talented musician and artist often teaching violin lessons at the WIBS and playing for parties and dancing lessons. She also taught at the Redstone and Southwest Schools. In 1931 she was even selected to represent the Inn at a dancing competition in Michigan with one of the Trade School teachers.

Muriel married Stuart Hoppin on Thanksgiving Day in 1941 at the Martha-Mary Chapel, with Henry and Clara Ford in attendance.

Florence served as a hostess at the Inn from 1932 to the 1950s. She was a skilled musician and taught piano and voice at Elon College in North Carolina for eight years before joining The Wayside Inn. In addition to hospitality duties, Fisher played the piano and organ for many functions, such as weddings and dinners, and during the regular dance lessons provided for the local school children and the WIBS students. She also possessed artistic talents which can be seen in the diaries and scrapbooks and, at one point, designed a marketing poster to sell products from The Grist Mill.

Stephen was a student at WIBS where he learned about the restaurant management profession. Students of hospitality would attend classes for a few weeks and then spend several weeks working with the Inn staff to get hands-on training. In this way the staff and students would have close relationships, as many of the hostesses did not have families of their own nearby and neither did the boys. Gooch graduated from WIBS in 1932 and began working as a host that summer. He authored the hostess diaries for much of 1933 to 1934.

Emma was a cook at The Wayside Inn during the early 20th century. Born in Austria, she came to the United States at the age of 12, and began working in kitchens at 15. She worked at the Inn from 1925 through the 1940s.

Emma was well known for her culinary skills and eye for detail, constantly making adjustments to her cooking for regular visitors to suit their tastes. She loved birds and took time each day to call to them and share crumbs from the kitchen. She lived in The Gate House, where we today have The Wayside Inn Foundation's offices.

Starting as a hostess in 1926 Mabel appeared to be the heart of the community at The Wayside Inn. She quickly established herself as a leader, eventually earning the title of Senior Hostess. In addition to keeping her own scrapbooks in 1928 and 1929 she briefly took over ownership of the Hostess Diaries in 1930 until leaving the Inn due to a prolonged illness. She was greatly missed while away from the Inn, as mentioned often in the diaries, and sadly, Mabel passed away in February 1931 and the Inn staff lost their compassionate and nurturing matriarch.