Nancy Badger’s eyes were glued to a glass soda bottle with a red label atop a white wooden shelf in the newly replicated Easley Store in Nifong Park. She read the faded letters on the bottle from behind a white pine counter, her eyes lighting up as she pointed at the bottle with such excitement the whole tour group turned toward her.
Old-fashioned general store revisited
Nostalgia-filled replica of the Easley Store
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 5:22 p.m. CDT, Thursday, July 17, 2008
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