These deaf entrepreneurs are launching a tiny house vacation spot. They welcome hearing visitors - and hope they leave enlightened
Shawn Harrington co-owns Lost River Vacations, a tiny house retreat on 22 acres of property in West Virginia. By Emily Esfahani Smith May 5 at 10:00 AM In the summer of 2017, Jane Jonas and her wife were vacationing in the Outer Banks of North Carolina when a massive power outage forced thousands to evacuate the islands. Not ready to return home to the District, the couple scoured Airbnb for vacation rentals and found a cabin in the mountains of West Virginia in a town called Lost River.
The three friends are all small-businesses owners in the D.C. area, but what makes their story unique is not that they’re starting a trendy new venture — it’s that their trendy new venture is owned, managed and supported almost exclusively by the deaf community. Jonas, Harrington, and St.
More than 500 deaf people gathered for the fundraiser at Red Bear Brewing Co. over craft beers, sausages and free cake to support Lost River Vacations. All across the room, people in the crowd — which included government workers, small-business owners and students — were signing to one another while the deaf DJ, Nico DiMarco, blared songs such as “No Scrubs” and “Single Ladies” loudly enough that the audience could “feel” the beats and vibrations of the music.
Rosemary Latin, the baker of the free cake, was sitting along a wall watching the party unfold. A pastry chef, she founded Rosemary’s Fabulous Cakes in Keedysville, Md., in 2003. Many of her clients are deaf, but she also has a roster of hearing clients. Some didn’t realize she was deaf when they first approached her. “When they found out,” Latin said, “they were a little resistant at first.” They worried about how they would communicate and work together. But Latin reassured them.
A tiny house at Lost River Vacations. The retreat's co-founders, all deaf, hope the experience will expose hearing visitors to the deaf community. Another major goal of Lost River Vacations is to expose more hearing people to the deaf community.
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