The Next Great Website: Real Memories.com

Last year at this time, Kimberly Rock and I were sharing our fantasies about what we'd do if we won the lottery and could buy the Falls Village Inn. In the meanwhile, we have each developed websites and if we're successful enough maybe one of us can buy the Inn someday. (Or maybe we'll buy it together.) Kimberly and her husband, Eric Haggard, who live in the sweet yellow house with the white picket fence on Main Street, have launched an awesome new business called Real Memories, where you can upload your digital photos and choose custom frames for each picture and add a personalized caption to the mat as well. Real Memories prints your pictures for you with high quality paper and ink and eliminates the guess work in trying to find a frame that fits your pictures and your decor. What's more, they will gift wrap and UPS every purchase, which makes it a great gift source for birthdays, anniversaries and Mother's and Father's Day. They manufacture their products in downtown Torrington, creating local jobs and boosting the regional
economy.

Real Memories reflects Kim and Eric's loving family life and devotion to making happy memories for their daughters, Jessy and Jordan (who are pictured above in their colorful playroom), which is why I decided to write about them for my new website, Rural Intelligence. Hopefully, this small-town synergy will someday rescue and revive the Falls Village Inn.

The Real Deal: Kim and Eric are offering a 15% discount for their friends and neighbors in Falls Village. When you visit the site, enter code: intro15rm