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Fashion Supports A Passion

September 29, 2021 Tagged With: clothing, Gina Franklyn, horses, jewelry, sustainability, The Good Shop

Franklyn, (above, with Sara) provides a home for 9 adopted horses on her farm in Harpers Ferry.

Gina Franklyn started in Shepherdstown 15 years ago with the idea of a shop to sell “simple, good things” (hence the name). She remarked that she focuses on “listening and understanding her customers and searching around for merchandise that she thinks might appeal to them.” Read the Full Story >>

Jefferson County is Horse Country

December 1, 2020 Tagged With: Blue Spruce Farm, horse racing, horses

Driving around, it’s easy to see the agricultural activity that surrounds us in Jefferson County, but it often seems at a distance. As part of a planned series of articles looking at the activities that have defined Jefferson County across several centuries, The Observer recently visited one of these operations — the Blue Spruce Farm in Kearneysville WV. Read the Full Story >>

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