So Why The Northern Neck ?

Our shop is located on the Northern Neck of Virginia, in the Town of Kilmarnock.  This is a popular area for people to have second homes and to retire.  My family originally from the Norfolk Va. area, have been visiting this area for generations.  The Tides Inn in Irvington Va. has been a vacation destination for many, many years.  My grandparents stayed there in the 1950's.  The Northern Neck is an area almost completely surrounded by water.  The Chesapeake Bay lies to the east and the Rappahanock River to the west.  In between are lots of smaller rivers and creeks that cut in land allowing for a tremendous amount of water front.  The seafood particularly the blue crabs, oysters, and fish are plentiful and fresh.  Every home on the water has crab pots out. These crabs are free for the taking.  People come for bird watching. They come for kayaking.  They come by car and they arrive by boat.

Families from both Richmond.,Williamsburg and Northern Va. come for their weekends.  It is said that as soon as they cross over the bridge to the Northern Neck that the pressure of the daily grind is lifted from their shoulders, and they breath a sigh of relief. 

So why do you ask do we have our shop in a small town on the Northern Neck of Va.?  Why not.  We first came as visitors ourselves as part time people.  Some how the Northern Neck got into our blood.  The style of living is a slower pace.  The rent on Main Street is highly affordable allowing us a much larger space than we could get anywhere else.  The customers come to us.  The internet and the website 1stdibs allows us to sell across the globe.  This is the benefit of the internet.