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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
New energy is being pumped into the old apple-packing warehouse at the north edge of Flint Hill with a soon-to-open antique store called Flint Hill Vintage.
County residents Dan Lewis and Bemi Olson are operating the new store, which opens Saturday.
Lewis and Olson have sold antiques and vintage items for the past 10 months at Copper Fox Antiques in Sperryville. They eryoyed it so much that they decided to open their own store.
“A lot of people ask us, ‘Why are you doing this?' Because we’re having fun,” Olson said.
Lewis, who founded the Middle Street Gallery in 1980 and ran it until 1994, has an art background. Olson has a business background.
He likes going to auctions; she likes the organizational side of things. They both eryoy meeting the customers that come searching for treasures in antique stores.
They said the focus of the store will be antiques, but inventory will also include art, kitchen utensils, estate furniture and more - basically “anything old, unusual or unique,” Olson said.
The store will also have a collection of pre-1970s vintage items - things that Lewis says tap nostalgic feelings and remind people of when they were growing up.
Lewis and Olson also plan to develop a garden outside the store and will sell antique and vintage gardening tools as well as decorative garden items, such as urns and statues.
The pair searches auctions and estate sales for inventory, and also has consignors.
Lewis and Olson think more antique stores will benefit Copper Fox and die other retail spots in Rappahannock by making the county a destination.
“People in the city think, ‘Let’s go to Rappahannock to
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