06/02/2026
One of my favorite little details here is hidden inside these old bins ✍🏻
If you lift the lids, you’ll still find handwritten labels inside — Sugar and Rice — left behind from another era. Every time I see them, I find myself imagining what this space looked like when it was still a working general store.
Nearly two hundred years ago, these bins would have held flour, sugar, rice, and other staples. Customers would have walked through these same doors, while in the attached barn a wooden bull wheel, with a thick rope and iron hook were used to hoist heavy sacks into the store. Those doors and the bull wheel are still in working order, amazingly enough!
Imagine all the people who have come through here over the years—the neighbors, families, and friends. The conversations, the errands, and the day-to-day moments that filled this place with life.
Today the shelves hold books, antiques, flowers, and collected treasures, but the building still carries those stories with it.
And that’s one of the things I love most about having events here…
Whether it’s a baby shower, birthday, anniversary, workshop, or gathering of friends, each event becomes another layer in the story of this old store. Another memory added to a place that has been collecting them for generations ✨
Someday, someone may stand in this very spot wondering about the people who gathered here before them.
And, who knows, maybe they’ll be wondering about your story too! 🧡
Have a wonderful, warm week!
— Christa
