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| | Russian River: A Summer Getaway |
 | | The river, the unifying force, starts small and swift in the mountains north of Ukiah, cuts a serpentine swath through cow towns, lush vineyards, apple orchards, and well-groomed wine country hamlets such as Healdsburg, then flattens out to its widest and most gracious around the time-warped villages of Guerneville and Monte Rio. |
 | | Southeast along the river in Forestville, where the redwoods rise to meet the vineyards, an 1872 home on River Road that was once a disco-bathhouse has been transformed into the sunny, sumptuous Farmhouse Inn. |
 | | In Monte Rio, the old-fashioned heart of the Russian River area, visitors are rediscovering the Village Inn, a 1906 property that appeared in the 1942 classic film Holiday Inn. |
| www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/Russian_River04.asp (532 words) |
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