Melissa Auf der Maur spent 15 years as a rocker on the road, playing bass in alternative bands such as Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, dating Dave Grohl, and at times taking up residence in Janis Joplin’s old room at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. But in 2006, when she met and fell in love with filmmaker Tony Stone, she knew it was time to settle down away from the city, become a mother and raise a child in a “cozy little town with a cool kindergarten and plenty of nature.”