On a hot, humid Saturday afternoon this summer, the phone rang. It was my son asking me to come to the store “because Sherry has something for you for our anniversary.” Anniversary? What anniversary? Then I realized that 40 years before on this date we had opened for our first day of what became Country Corner Farm Market.

I assumed Sherry had made and decorated one of her beautiful cakes. When I got to the store, there was a break in business and a very large bag was standing upright with a box…