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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Blue Ridge Grocery has been a part of the Chester Gap community for many years.
Now, it has an entirely new look, a new owner and a variety of new items for sale.
Jack Sharp bought Blue Ridge Grocery four years ago this July.
For the Newport News Subaru service manager it was a dream come true.
“I always wanted to have a little store,” he said, standing behind the original counterspace in the tiny one room store, located just off U.S. 522.
The white walls are dotted with antiques of various types and eras. Old metal painted advertisements, an ancient scyth, a horse saddle, reins and an old sewing machine fill up the spaces around the top of the store. The shelves host unique wooden crafts mostly made by Mr. Sharp and his wife. A wooden cherry pie or a rooster, small wooden bears, or bird houses, hand-made wrapping paper or carefully cut snip-n-snear prints are some of the items which line the few shelves in the store.
Between the crafts and simple collectable antique pieces are bottles Of cleanser, a bottle of dishsoap or two cans of tomato paste, a pack of thumbtacks or a toothbrush. Not several of these items, just one or two are set out in the store.
There are chips and sodas and candybars beside the ancient counterspace. The old register and several jars of penny candy take most of that space.
It looks like the country store from an old movie complete with wood stove and wooden barrels.
It’s just like Jack Sharp wants it to be.
Mr. Sharp spent years wandering the countryside looking for a country store to buy.
“I looked from West Virginia over,” he said, shaking his head in memory. “Nothing was right.”
Until he found the store once owned and managed by Henry Reager.
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