Song Farm Guesthouse

Wooded trails. 8-acre private pond for 'pondering,' kayaking, fishing and dreaming! Your stay is a great help to these 2 organic song farmers! Here’s the short story of our Song Farm Guesthouse home. We’re your hosts Lynn Adler and Lindy Hearne. The Song Farm Guesthouse is very much a part of our home here at the Spring Hollow Organic Song Farm 10 miles southeast of Winnsboro, TX. We lived here as

renters and itinerant music consultants brought to town to help the community grow its economy by helping create a music festival in 2001. The festival we envisioned didn’t pan out at the time, but it was in that process we discovered our love of Winnsboro along with these 18 acres of hallowed ground. As you’ll see from the posters and memorabilia on the walls of the Guesthouse, we did have a hand in bringing music to life in our adopted hometown after all. We hosted weekly live concerts at a venue we established on Winnsboro’s Main Street called Crossroads Coffeehouse & Music Co. (History tidbit: Winnsboro was originally named Crossroads; founded in 1854.) We managed to keep those shows going from November 2005 through May 2009. Then we began touring full time with our own music making on the national Folk scene. We’ve so-far released six recordings as Adler & Hearne, including our most recent CD The Ties That Bind Us on Howlin’ Dog Records. New musical projects are always in the works here. We had the opportunity to purchase this property in 2002 from dear friends Joseph and Mary Germann, and learned from them that former owners (the Hyde family from Austin) had named this special 18.25 acres “Spring Hollow” because the primary residence (we call it “the cabin” as our home is built on what was an old sharecroppers cabin site) is situated in a hollow at the edge of an eight-acre private spring-fed pond. Which by the way has been known through the years as Goolsby’s Pool. It’s even the site of our tiny wedding here in November 2019 when we decided to put the bow on our 40-year friendship and tied the knot. As the great blue heron flies, we’re just down the hill from the Song Farm Guesthouse -- a bit to the north. You can’t see our cabin from the Guesthouse, nor can we see it. But you CAN see the glimmers on the pond. Just look out the windows on the west side of the house (back bedroom, kitchen sink and dining room windows) or gaze out from the patio or back yard, and you’ll see its reflection down the hill, along with beautiful sunsets and ‘last light’ that come shining through our little piece of the East Texas piney woods. To the east of the house of course (outside the front bedroom, bathroom and living room windows) come the beautiful sunrises and ‘first light’ through the pines of Pineview just across the road. So welcome to our piney woods home. And please do be at home when you arrive. Scan through the pages of our Welcome Home guidebook so you’re familiar with how things work around our guesthouse. Plus, we’ve provided helpful information about the many things to see and do in Winnsboro and surrounds. If you have questions or concerns, please text (preferred) or call Lynn’s cell at (214) 952-6086. Thank you for being our guest/s and know you are welcome here,

Lynn & Lindy