Bernice Chesler

Background

Bernice Chesler, maiden name Goldberg, was born on October 3, 1932, in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

Bernice Chesler was a graduate of Northeastern University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1955.

Career

After graduating, Bernice Chesler worked in public relations for WGBH-TV and WGBH-FM in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for two years. During the early 1970s, she also worked as a research and publications coordinator for the children's television program Zoom and edited the spin-off book Do a Zoom Do in 1975.

However, Chesler is best remembered for her books about В&B's, which not only told travelers the basic facts about small inns across America but also tried to inform readers about the inns' hosts and atmosphere. These books include Bed and Breakfast in the Northeast (1983), Bed and Breakfast Coast to Coast (1986), Bed and Breakfast in New England (1987), and Bed and Breakfast in the Mid-Atlantic States: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia (1987). She was also the author of In and out of Boston, with Children (1966) and coauthor of The Family Guide to Cape Cod: What to Do When You Don't Want to Do What Everyone Else Is Doing (1976).

Achievements

• Bernice Chesler's work won praise around the United States. Her four bed-and-breakfast guidebooks were republished in at least a dozen revised editions.

Works

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  • Bed & Breakfast in the Mid-Atlantic States

    (Bernice Chesler's Bed and Breakfast in the Mid-Atlantic S...)

    1987
  • Bed & Breakfast in New England

    (Bernice Chesler's Bed & Breakfast in New England sets the...)

    1987
  • In and out of Boston with (or without) children

    (How to be out and about in Beantown.)

    1969
  • The Family Guide to Cape Cod: What to Do When You Don't Want to Do What Everyone Else Is Doing 1976
  • Bed and breakfast in the Northeast 1983

Views

Bernice Chesler used to say that B&B owners are "very sure of what they do and how they're different. But the traveler really doesn't care about definitions. They care if you are a home or an inn."

Connections

Bernice Chesler was married to David Alan Chesler. She had two sons, Stanford and Mark, and a daughter, Lisa Winsor.

husband:

David Alan Chesler

Son:

Stanford Chesler

Son:

Mark Chesler

Daughter:

Lisa Winsor