When I took my 22 year old son Tommy fishing last week, he told me something I did not know. We went to the Overlook and saw the shoes hanging on the telephone line up there. Tommy said that is a known side in urban areas to indicate that drugs are available here. This is why my next project is going to be to get a sign on the overlook and to put up barriers, cameras and a gate. In another astounding incident, last year a car went over the bluff. The passenger survived, but it shows the very definite need for barriers, fences, signs and to privatize the property.

If you are a regular visitor to the river, you are well aware of the difference between your experience on the weekends and during the week. Weekends in the summer are a non stop parade of rafts and boats, such as pictured here. There is a lot of drinking, loud music, and behavior that goes along with that. If you go during the week, you can expect a very quiet river, with the occasional raft or kayak drifting by.

Niles and Katie are currently working with an attorney to try to get an easement to Lot Six. It is a slow and frustrating experience. Please bear with us while we continue the process. Once we have access to the property, we plan to put up tiny houses, or to build cabins, or houses to use for overnight stays. Members will be eligible to rent and stay for prolonged periods by reservation. We welcome your input and we will keep you informed.

Back in the 1970s our family entered into a law suit with some squatters on Many Islands. As with most of the Spring River, Napoleon Hill had acquired Many Islands as well and our family owned it. Squatters had planted themselves there and had started a business on our land. We went to court to get them off and WE LOST!!! It was a very unfair and unjust verdict, but it stuck. Many Islands was lost to our family forever. We do not want anything like that to ever happen again. My hope is that having members going regularly to our property will keep us informed of whatever might be going on, even when we can't get up there for exended periods of time. Niles and I do tend to get up there fairly regularly these days, but we don't live there permanently, and we really appreciate our friends and neighbors who report back to us.