In 1997 Jill Scholsohn was a recent graduate of Saint Vincent's Paramadic Academy in New York City and had begun a new career as a NYC paramedic. To reduce her stress level, she chose to take a kayak lesson in Cornwall, CT. That was how Riverstone was founded. She married Dan Greenbaum, her kayak instructor 3 years later. They both had a love of travel so they spent months travelling the world learning of other cultures and collecting artifacts for a store in Kent, Ct. They had opened the store in order to sell their crafts but they soon found they were too busy running the store and had no time to create so in 2004 the store was closed in order to pursue their crafts.

Jill Scholsohn's anthropology background is evident in her jewelry. She uses a mixture of amulets and talismans from different cultures all over the world. Her work reflects her time living abroad and then living in Arizona.