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Baldwins bought the store in 1984. Impatient with any discussion of unusual bravery and courage as far as his war record is concerned, Baldwin will say emphatically, “What made it all worthwhile was meeting Curie during my last tour. Then it all made sense to me.”
Indeed this is a couple who knows something about working together in every sense of the word. When they bought the store from Baldwin’s cousin, Clarence Baldwin, they set about doing a total renovation.
In fact, when they finished, all that was left of the original store was the green, tin roof, which they simply built around.
Anyone who doesn’t believe this bit of information, can go up in the attic of Baldwin’s store and see that green, tin roof because it is still there, attic floor below and new roof above. Some save momentoes from the past, few save an entire roof.
“We left it actually to give us extra protection against the weather,” said Baldwin.
The couple recalled the frentic days when they were rebuilding the store while keeping the business going simultaneously. “We kept the store open through the entire renovation,” said Baldwin. “We just kept moving around out of the way of the workman. It was pretty crazy,” he said.
Two years of non-stop work, with days that often ended at 3 a.m., finally brought the project to completion. “I don’t know how we did it,” said Cucie. “I wouldn’t do it again,” said Baldwin, with a laugh.
Baldwin, originally from Culpeper, left the military in 1971, going to work in the oil fields in Australia until he and Cucie moved to Rappahannock in 1984. Looking for a place in the states, they debated between Virginia and the Carolinas, where Baldwin had thought he might grow tobacco. The lure of a
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