Shopping at Appalachian Spring has been a lifetime adventure for me, having been here since its inception…40 something years ago! We were very young when we opened the first store and at that time couldn’t really afford to buy many of the beautiful things we were selling in the store because we were plowing all monies made back into growing the business. Slowly we began to furnish our home with the basics but instead of buying a “set” of dishes we began to buy functional pottery as we found pieces we really liked and felt connected to, and did the same with glassware, vases, placemats, jewelry boxes and on and on.