Rivers and Roads
~by Chrissy Alspaugh
T
he first step into Nashville’s new Rivers and Roads LLC shop prompts pause, as customers take in the colorful, calming visual potpourri they’ve walked into. Walls brim with carefully staged ceramics, hand-crafted soaps, woven wool rugs and handbags, antique cameras turned into lamps, tea, jewelry, honey, and an exhibit of beeswax candles that range from elegant to eccentric.
Owners Adam and Gracie Dillon-Moore. photos by Chrissy Alspaugh
Owners Adam and Gracie Dillon-Moore have carefully filled the store with all-natural, one-ofa-kind, artisan-made delights to suit any budget. The shop’s sweet, fresh aroma is hard to place. “It’s nothing,” Adam chuckles. “Most of our world is so flooded with synthetic fragrances and chemicals, it’s surprising to walk into a space where the scent is literally nothing.” While the scent may be “nothing” more than plant-based products throughout, the shop means everything to a couple who decided two years ago to create a life for their family that was meaningful, sustainable, conscious, and creative. It’s not far from the life Gracie watched her father, Bill Dillon, lead while running Nashville’s leathersmith shop when she was a child.
22 Our Brown County • Jan./Feb. 2024
