SCORE Stories: Windsor Artists Shake Up Snow Globe Industry
If you wanted to buy a snow globe, would you shop at a souvenir shop or a museum shop? Years ago, the answer would have been a souvenir shop. But thanks to the innovative craftsmanship of Windsor residents Liz Ross and David Westby, the answer now would be a museum shop or high-end retailer such as Garnet Hill, Sundance or The Smithsonian Store. Ross and Westby, marital and business partners, each brought their prior professional...
Cottage Industry: When a Battered Guitar Needs TLC, Lebanon Man Gets the Gig
Fires, bad paint jobs, long-term disregard, the guitars and basses that find their way to Will Morneault’s workbench have endured any number of indignities. Others have been loved so hard they need a little tender, loving care. Nearly all are older, some with value as collectibles. Yet when a newly spruced up guitar or bass is returned to its owner, it won’t be hung on a wall “like a trophy,” Morneault said. “They’re going to take it...
Women and Business: Gift Shop at DHMC Has a New Name, but Same Mission
Changes are coming to Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center’s “Pink Smock” gift shop, which was started in the old hospital in Hanover in 1971, expanded at the Lebanon location and soon will include a website for easy ordering and delivery. The nonprofit shop, a program of the medical center’s volunteer services department, is staffed by more than 60 volunteer cashiers and buyers, many of them women, who are involved in “shared...
Viva Revolution
Several of the independent designers who sell their creations at Revolution, the North Main Street retail shop owned and managed by Kim Souza, or who participated in last month’s fashion show at the Main Street Museum, said they face many of the same challenges as any other business, including planning, time management and marketing. “Reflecting often on your business and goals is really important,” said Eve Winslow, of Woodstock, who...
Dressing Up Downtown
Kim Souza opened the doors of Revolution in June 2002, at a time when the clothing store’s neighbors included a strip club called The Wrap and an accompanying adult novelty store. Occasionally, workers from the club would try to consign some of their costumes at Revolution, but they wanted more money than Souza was willing to pay. “That’s a little bit of a change right there,” said Souza, owner and manager of the shop, as she folded...
