A visitor to Buzzy’s Country Store yesterday told me how it reminded her of Mast General Store where she grew up in western North Carolina. I told her that it sounded familiar and I would look into whether or not I had featured it here previously on the Buzzyblog.
Turns out that I have done a couple of Buzzyblog posts on Mast (click here and here.) The above photo is from their website and guess what? They even have a blog (click here.) (And here I thought Buzzy’s was the only old time country store that could claim that dubious honor!) To read an interesting discussion of the history of the Mast pot belly stove (photo below) check out this blog post they did in January 2022.
Today being Sunday, here is a little religious-Mast Country Store connection for you. The history of the Mast Store starts off as follows:
As opposed to having a front porch like Buzzy’s, Mast has a back porch where they feature folks playing some music. Here is a sample:
This write up was included with the above video.
