[at-l] Fwd: Wood's Hole

[Mara Factor]

Hi all,

When the subject of Wood's Hole came up, I figured I would ask Neville,
Tillie's granddaughter, what her current plans are.  Here's what she had to
say...

I had stayed at Wood's Hole in '99 and met Tillie then.  This past year, I
stayed at Wood's Hole the night before I got off the trail.  Tillie wasn't
there having gone to Boston to see the graduation at Harvard so I got to
meet Neville.

Mara
Stitches, AT99

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Neville Harris
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Wood's Hole
To: Mara Factor <mfactor at gmail.com>


Hi Mara,
It's good to hear from you. As of right now we aren't sure whether the
hostel will be ready for thru hikers as we said it would be int the
Thru-hikers handbook... on MAY 1st this year. We are doing some crazy
renovations. My mom took the job under her wing before my grandmother died
in order to create a space for a downstairs bedroom. The project got a lot
bigger than i ever dreamed. They've been working on it all fall, winter, and
now into spring. I had planned to go up to the cabin for a month and recruit
friends to help me during the other month. MamaTillie usually stayed for 2
months, if not longer. Because of the delay in restoring the cabin, we may
be open LATE again this year. I'll go up in June at least.. to see the
progress and hopefully open the hostel for a few weeks.

The exciting, and sort of wild news is that my partner, whom i met at the
hostel (his trail name was Driftwood, he hiked in 2006). We plan to live
there within the next year. Crazy. My mom has offered to let us run the
hostel. and own the cabin. So, yeah, things will keep going.. We'll probably
change things.. For example, we want to start offering "donation" type
dinners and getting folks to help out with work trades in order to build an
even wilder dream. We want to turn Woods Hole into a retreat for folks.. a
place for workshops, education, and the like. Hikers will always be welcome.
We're just expanding our horizons in order to make a viable living at the
cabin.

Thanks for asking. Funny, i was just writing about our dream in my journal.
I hope you stay in touch. Feel free to send this email to folks as an
answer.

Take care,
Neville

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Mara Factor <mfactor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Neville,
>
> How are you?
>
> I can't believe it's thruhiker season again.  I've got Springer Fever
> something bad even though I'm traveling in Thailand right now.  It was nine
> years ago today that I started my AT thruhike.
>
> Are you still planning on keeping the hostel open this year?  Do you know
> the dates you expect to be open yet?
>
> There are some questions flying about the at-l, an Appalachian Trail
> mailing list, about the hostel so I figured I would ask you and let them
> know.
>
> I hope all's well with you,
>
> Mara
> Stitches, AT99 and GA to Pearisburg '07
>
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> http://friends.backcountry.net/m_factor





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