Nathan and Christina Complete the Little River Team

Nathan and Christina Complete the Little River Team

Nathan teaching students at Carbondale New School with the Emriver Em2. Editor’s note:  This is the first of what I hope are many posts written by our new Creative Director, Alee Quick. A couple of students who’ve worked part time for LRRD transitioned to full...

LRRD appreciates Lily Hwang on her one-year anniversary.

LRRD appreciates Lily Hwang on her one-year anniversary.

My wife Kate met Lily as she was finishing her MS  in Forestry at SIU-Carbondale and told me “you need to talk to her, she’s amazing.” I did, and she is, and we hired her, and Lily Hwang has done amazing things for us. She’s a brilliant...

Happy, cool, fun video of us.

Happy, cool, fun video of us.

Last week we shot video to show our updated Emriver Em2 model.  Here are a few clips. This production is all in house, all in-family.  Planning, video, post production,  everything. In eight languages.  Our Meriam, from Morocco, speaks four (and teaches one) of them. ...

What to do with a dead canoe.

What to do with a dead canoe.

Our building is perfect for us, but the lot is ugly.   We’re still climbing out of a recession start up; I can’t justify money spent on aesthetics, but can’t stand to see another spring pass without doing so. Here you see a worn out Grumman canoe...

New faces at LRRD.

New faces at LRRD.

Exciting times at LRRD!   University budgets are in better shape.  We have a lot of orders, are starting to export, and are expanding after two years in this tough economy. We have a couple of new colleagues this week: Jordan Gibson (left), and (next) Nathan Speagle....