Abbie Schlattman

Born and raised on the banks of the Mississippi River, a small-town girl went to the big city for education and life experience. Seventeen years of rewarding professional development in multi-family, commercial and international real-estate could not quiet a need to return to a land where water flows like the blood through her veins. The clean water, fresh air and serene majesty of the Ozarks called to me. I was charmed hiking the trails of the Mark Twain National Forest and courted while kayaking the Ozark Scenic Riverways. All the while, I was falling in love with pristine springs and sapphire-blue swimming holes. Beauty abounds here, unmatched by anything, anywhere else in the country. I finally settled down on a large plot of land with an end of the road setting; a little place the old timers call Hog Hollow. The history here runs deeper than the waters. The people are as varied and colorful as the trees in thefall. “Everybody knows everybody, everybody calls you friend”.