
Posey's is an old mercantile store that has been in continuous operation in the same location since 1924. The great grandson, Randy Posey still owns and operates the store. The door jangles with an old entry bell when you walk in....can you say deja vu? The floors are made of heart pine and they squeak in places as you walk through browsing the shelves.
I know Randy must have thought me strange because once inside, I stood there a long while and absorbed the ambiance. The place smelled like the old stores from my childhood. Posey's actually has a lot of the things the stores had back then. In the front window there was butter churns, old speckled blue coffee pots, and mason jars. There is an old red hand water pump. A neighbor had one of these when I was a kid and we used to go over to their house to get a drink of cold water when the summer day got hot and our mouths got dry . One of us

Poesy's has fly swatters made out of metal screen instead of plastic. Hanging on the back wall was a Radio Flyer snow sled. A kid here might only have an opportunity once or twice in their lives to use one, but if you need one, you can get it at Posey's. Outside on the side were Radio Flyer coaster wagons. It was like a page torn right out of my memory.
I bought some collars for my dogs, a toy kaleidoscope and a cane penny whistle for my niece and nephew Breeze and Stone.
I stood and talked to Randy Posey for a while about his store. Most of the things in there are made in America. I won't bash the super stores because they provide things that were unavailable here before they came. But I hope stores like Posey's stay in business because not only do they sell things that are unique and beautiful, they can also send you on a journey back to a happy, simpler time and that's something you can't buy at Wal-Mart.
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