[at-l] Fwd: Wood's Hole

Fri May 9 06:35:30 CDT 2008

Hi folks,

Given the stretch of trail that has been in the news recently, I thought I
would get an update on the Woods Hole hostel.

In March when there was a question on the list about the hostel, I got in
touch with Neville, Tillie's granddaughter, to find out the latest.  I
forwarded her response to the list but fear it may not have been posted as
there were a few months when none of my postings to AT-L got through.  Ryan
has since fixed the problem and my postings seem to get through again.

I've just been in touch with Neville again and things have changed a bit...
Here's what she has to say now:

"HI Mara,
Wild,, i was thinking of you today. I need to get the news out that Woods
Hole Won't be in full swing this summer because they are doing a renovation
at the cabin. Instead of trying to open while they are STILL doing the
renovation.. i opted to wait. I will go up for 10 days in May and 10 days in
June.. just to be a part of the renovation and get things back in place. The
construction folks said they'ld be happy to take in any hikers.. but there
won't be a breakfast.. so it's not quite the same.

[...]

IF you can .. throw out a few emails.. so folks will know .. if they are
wandering.. that Woods Hole is on Siesta.. I'll be there May 18th-28 and
June 16-26.. When I'm there,, we'll try to swing a breakfast together for
any hikers that meander by.

Thanks Mara!!!
NEville"

Anyway, here's a reposting of the message I tried to send out in March.
While the hostel open dates have obviously changed, the information about
their plans for the place are still exiting.

Mara
Stitches, AT99

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mara Factor <mfactor at gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2008 2:34 AM
Subject: Fwd: Wood's Hole
To: at-l at backcountry.net

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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