“Here, where the world is quiet…”* Now we are in winter again… a season which seems to be the only time I turn my back on the busy-ness of our lives to write these notes.  The stillness is pervasive, creeping through the January air, tethering to itself the lawns and fields, and their neighbor, the [...]

Greetings, Friend! Do you remember staying at the North River Inn?  ~ We hope so, and we’d like to share our news…and to invite you back! Whether you were here a month ago or thirteen years’ past, when we first opened, some things have changed – and most, thankfully, have not. This quarterly newsletter brings three announcements: [...]

My husband returned from a duck-hunting trip to Arkansas last night. He told me all about it – standing in the chest-deep water, which is cold, watching dawn rise, countless ducks swooping in to land on the levee. The buddy put out the newest version of a decoy, the Robo-Duck, which paddles away from you [...]

We are waiting for snow. This doesn’t mean it’s predicted (well, maybe a little bit, Thursday night), or that it will ever really happen again, as it used to – but we are still waiting for it, nevertheless. Snow would mean: a snow day; a slowing down of our schedules – perhaps even a complete [...]