Autumn Harvest at Brewster General

by Lianne Schneider

Title

Autumn Harvest at Brewster General

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

Something just for fun at harvest time, Halloween and the first days of autumn. The basic image of this enchanting wagon is one I took myself in late September 2010 while visiting a dear friend in Cape Cod. The Brewster General Store is a must stop and see highlight - you'll find nickelodeons playing old-timey songs, unusual hard to find things, antiques and some of the best ice cream anywhere! Image has been altered and textured in Photoshop Elements with textures from Shadowhouse creations and SolStock on Flickr and a pumpkin PNG file from Dani3D of DeviantArt.

From their website - http://www.brewsterstore.com/
Brewster Store still has all the charm of a nineteenth century general store. Located on Route 6A in Brewster, Massachusetts, the 156-year-old structure was built as a church in 1852. The building was converted to a general store in 1866 and has continued to serve the needs of the local residents and visitors to the Cape for more than 140 years.

Today, after five owners, The Brewster Store still features a broad, but unique assortment of merchandise - great coffee, pastries and morning newspapers, penny candy, t-shirts and sweatshirts, toys, hard-to-find lamp parts, kitchen gadgets, original Coke in glass bottles, books, greeting cards and many unusual gifts from the past and present. And yes, we still carry groceries and dairy products. Put a quarter in the old nickelodeon to hear an old time tune, enjoy some of our own roasted peanuts, or just sit on the benches in front of the store and watch the world go by. If you come by in the winter, warm yourself by the old coal stove.

In March of 1990, the entire store was emptied and the structure was re-enforced from the basement to the second floor. This was the first major refurbishment since 1866. The Boyds also hired a local craftsman, who spent three months painstakingly restoring the six remaining second floor church windows. The Second Floor or THE HALL was reopened in June of 1990. It now contains a broad selection of lovely merchandise not available on the first floor, the old Brewster Post Office, a miniature reproduction of The Brewster Store, more advertising antiques, a collection of World War II posters, an antique wooden cranberry separator, and a waterline metal ship diorama of Kiel Harbor in 1938.

In June of 1993, the shed at the back of the Brewster Store was renovated and opened as The Brewster Scoop, the Brewster Store's own ice cream parlor. Serving delicious old-fashioned ice cream, The Brewster Scoop is open daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day, from six in the morning to ten in the evening.

I want to thank everyone in advance for any visits and comments you might make and let you know how much that means to me. I'll be dropping by your pages to say my thank yous in person very soon. xox

I am very grateful to the following groups for featuring this image:
- All Things on the Atlantic Coast
- Crave Color
- Female Artists
- Digital Realism
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- Excellent Self-Taught Artists
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Image Copyright � Lianne Schneider http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com All rights reserved.
All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or painting resulting from my changes. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international copyright laws.

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September 29th, 2013

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