Dear Editor,
I am so sorry to hear Blackwell’s Furniture is closing.
What a legacy they have! And I feel I’m a tiny bit a part of it in that my family room couch and loveseat came from Blackwell’s.
I will miss chatting with Doug when I would occasionally pop into the window shop or give him a stick of sugar cane from Butterflies and Blooms' pollinator habitat.
However, I was truly thrilled to read that the history of those buildings (I once got the grand tour) is proposed to continue as a venue for the arts, one more way of “connecting the community through the arts”—collectively connecting the communities of past, present and future.
Susan Larson, Briar Patch Resident