It crossed my mind recently that it has been awhile since I have featured a country store here on the Buzzyblog.
Therefore, it was kinda cool when Joe and Jeanette Lane popped into Buzzy’s Country Store this past Sunday and told me about the Center Lovell Market in Lovell, Maine. (Joe and Jeanette were here visiting their daughters at St. Mary’s College as part of parents weekend. Years ago Jeanette had camped at Pt. Lookout State Park with her parents, and wanted to ride down again to the Park for a re-visit. When she and her husband Joe rode past Buzzy’s on the way down the road, they decided to stop in as they headed back north.)
They told me that when they were in Maine recently visiting some relatives they had checked out the Center Lovell Market and that Buzzy’s was very similar to it including the old wooden floors. I took down their info on the Lovell Market and later did some research on it as follows:
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| https://www.facebook.com/Center-Lovell-Market-and-Restaurant-464873116931902/ |
In addition to their FB page, the Lovell Market also has a blog:
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| http://centerlovellmarket.blogspot.com/ |
As noted, Lovell is located on the western side of Maine near the Kezar Lake resort area:
Jeanette told me that Lovell’s most famous resident is author Stephen King and that locals can often see him walking around the area. I found this discussion on a blogsite from someone who visited Lovell and was a big Stephen King fan. (No Misery-related jokes to be made about being the author’s “biggest fan”)
The reference to “summer people” and “goddamn tourists” was explained as follows:
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| https://maddrey.blogspot.com/2013/07/stephen-kings-maine-day-5-bridgton.html |
But back to the Center Lovell Market, I tried a couple of times to contact its owner Sam Drucker but wasn’t able to talk to him. (My first question to him was going to involve asking him if that was his real name. Those of us of a certain age know that Sam Drucker was the name of the country store owner on Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.)
No videos that I could find on the Market but I did manage to find this video discussing another business in Lovell – Ebenezer’s Pub: