I don’t even know how or why my name was mentioned. Over the years, I had all these ideas—a coffee shop, a bar, and others—all these things I might to do. My husband is self-employed and we had two kids to get through school, so was never the right time.

Then when I saw this place, even though it wasn’t one of my ideas, it just would never leave my mind. I kept going back to it. So we sat down with the owners and looked at the numbers, and my husband said, ‘You know what? I think we could make this one work.’

So we bought it. At first, I had all these ideas of everything I was going to change, Then I sat in the shop and saw all the people coming in, a whole history here of people loving the shop and all the stories they told. I was like, you know, I’m just managing the stores—this really belongs to the town. It’s not for me, it’s for them.

That being said, this place is my baby. I love it. We bought the place in 2015 and I’ve never looked backed. Pam stayed on with me and she loves it as much as I do. We were just talking this morning—we had a couple here from Colorado yesterday. There were some from Texas and California. We’ve had people from Australia this summer. You get to meet people, and I like to hear their stories and all about them.