The Hearth & Hanger

The Hearth & Hanger was opened forty years ago by Hettan Stonebrew, a brewer who favored a warm hearth and cheap rooms for road-weary folk. Over generations the inn passed to his daughter Marla, who modernized the kitchen and kept the place welcoming to newcomers. Locals say the foundation stones were set on an old waystation and that a small spring under the cellar kept the bread from souring in hard winters. The inn has seen mercenaries, pilgrims, and the occasional noble traveling in disguise. It has never been the site of outright violence, though whispers of a hidden coin pouch and a bricked-up cellar niche crop up every few years.