Grays Store Closes After 224 Years
The closure of Gray's Store on Sunday marked the end of an era for one local family and a community.
The windows were shuttered and the lock on the front door twisted closed on a 224-year old tradition in Adamsville on Sunday. Generations of villagers frequented Gray's Store on Main Street for bread, milk and cheese before big-box grocer's like Shaw's and Stop and Shop moved in and pulled business away. As Jonah Waite, the 21-year-old heir to the general store and its accompanying estate shuttered those windows one last time on Sunday, Gray's Store and its legacy was ready to be laid to rest. Waite inherited the store and its accompanying house and acreage when his father, Grayton, passed away from esophageal cancer last month. "This has been a crash course in life with dealing with what happens and having all of this property," said …
LJC
6:12 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Hello, I'm not from the area but does anyone know how I would email or contact Jonah or go about reaching him? more ›