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Newsletter - November
Here at Pickens General we have much to be thankful for this year. Grants and donations have been bestowed upon us to help us restore our beautiful building (for which we are also always thankful for finding). We are eternally grateful to our tireless supporters and volunteers who drive us onward in our journey. We also find ourselves thankful for our surroundings. Our community has supported our goals from the beginning. The staff of Pickens General has a laundry list of thanks including thanks for two new son-in-laws, a healthy family and a son in college, the safe return of a brother-in-law from Iraq. There are also thanks being given for our own health and for our homes and hobbies that bring so much joy.
For Pickens General Store this time of year means family, traditions, and togetherness. Within our family here at Pickens we each have unique ways of celebrating with our own families. The general manager Mike starts his Thanksgiving morning with a pick-up game of basketball, a game for which he is eternally thankful. Debbie and Dave's family gathers together to put together a Christmas puzzle and Betsy's family celebrates at hunting camp so that none of the uncles have to give up an early Thursday morning hunt. Our Amish friends in Heuvelton don't celebrate much differently from their English counter parts. Amish families celebrate their Thanksgiving with a meal. However, they don't invite their entire extended family. A neighboring brother or sister with a new smaller family or an older set of parents without children at home anymore will be invited. Thanksgiving for Amish is the gathering of the immediate family for togetherness, thankfulness, and good food. However, unlike us, there will still be work to be done after the meal that day because a farmer’s work is never done. Within the store we all celebrate the change in retail seasons from autumn to Christmas with the dusting off of our historic sleigh. Each year it is toted from storage back to the store to be set up and filled with baskets. The sleigh was original to one of the businesses established in historic Pickens Hall. After an intense search, an even more intense auction and a little help from some very generous auction patrons, we brought the sleigh home again. It has since been the first sign of winter approaching and the center piece to Pickens holiday displays.
The Holiday Breakfast Gift Basket includes an Amish hand woven reed basket containing a glass jug of locally made Maple Syrup, two Pickens General Store Mugs, New Hope Mills Buttermilk Pancake Mix, and two pancake/egg rings for the perfectly shaped pancakes every time. Share the joy and togetherness of a hearty holiday breakfast with your loved ones. Looking for a larger gift, try the Pickens General Store Sampler Gift Basket which includes an Amish hand woven reed basket containing a Pickens General Store Mug, two locally made McCadams Cheeses, a jar of locally harvested honey from Squeak Creek Apiaries, a glass jar of local New York Maple Syrup, 4oz. of Racquette River Bison Jerky, A quarter pound of Amish made Cashew Crunch, and a 10oz. Jar of locally made Sillman's Fruit Spread. We couldn't be prouder of our local products and flavors here at Pickens General Store and this sampler will give you and yours a taste of Northern New York.
As always, Pickens General Store carries a variety of baskets as well as local foods and mixes as well as local soy candles and we now feature locally made goats’ milk soaps from The Wild Irish Rose Farm. We encourage visitors to custom pack a basket as a gift or care package. Our helpful staff would be glad to help you pack baskets for family, college students, colleagues, friends, soldiers, and anyone else on your list.
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