I actually recommended to Janice de Muy (sp?), who runs the Nantucket youth hostel, that she purchase the Harper's Ferry hostel. There's something real special about awesome innkeepers who have that gift of connecting with travelers who love nature. However, she is a Reiki therapist off-season in New Mexico, and didn't want to give that up.
BTW - How to hostel innkeepers walk the trail? I always wondered. Do they trust their staff to run things or weeks or months at a time? (The youth hostel managers rarely take more than a week off.)