2011: Our First Magazine Signing

After this many years you have a lot of memories to look back on. Some are admittedly horrible memories, but many are absolutely wonderful and life changing. There is a profound beauty to savoring the journey. There are many things I wish I could go back and do differently, but that isn’t how life works. Every day must be treated as a day to do better, to celebrate better, and to grow ever forward. Lately I’ve been looking back at back issues as we’ve been reformatting them to be reprinted and I find myself waxing poetic about the journey from that first time a friend of mine told me I should start this business, to where we are today.

These images are from our first signing, a wonderful barn sale in eastern Kentucky. I wish I could remember more about it, but I honestly don’t even remember where it was. It was perhaps somewhere off Highway 23 north of Pikeville and south of Ashland. I remember the pumpkin soap, it was the best soap I’d ever come across. I remember our booth, it was a collection of things out of my apartment. A stack of magazines, that very first issue, gosh I loved that smell of freshly printed paper back then.

These photos are from that event, I know there are more, but these are all I could find. I know there is a photo of a bench that still haunts me in the “things I should have bought” dreams.

If you’d like a copy of that first issue, they’re available below.