The heart of Avon: a couple and their country store

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The heart of Avon: a couple and their country store
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The French Creek District will be filled with antique dealers, and neighborhoods will be packed with garage sales.

"Trying to preserve stuff, but that's not easy when everyone nowadays wants something new," said Bob. The outhouse races also had to be flushed after a close call with a runaway outhouse and a police cruiser."They're the family events that people can bring their kids to and have a lot of fun at," said Fay Bishop, a longtime friend of the couple.

In the 1890s, her Great, Great Aunt Emma Weiler and Great, Great Cousin May Webber, ran the business as a general store and a millinery."She tried to keep everything looking like a general store with medicine and spices," said their daughter, Anne Marie Shinko-Brown. Half a century later, at age 86, Anne Marie said she and her brother, David, say their parents are ready to retire."Their retirement wasn't going on a cruise; it was working at the country store," said Anne Marie.She said the current plan is to keep the building and the country store name and hold an online auction for the antiques in July. She said Premier Auction Galleries will have a link where people can bid. Learn more here.

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