Lisa Cooper stepped into her role as the president of the Mast General Store on September 13, 2016. The announcement was made at the company’s anniversary dinner, which honors long-time employees celebrating milestone years with the company. The move was not unexpected but could be considered a bit unusual.
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February 29, 202412 minute READ
The Future is Women's Business
March is Women’s History Month, and, in celebration, Mast General Store is recognizing women-owned companies whose products we carry.
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February 20, 20246 minute READ
Leap, Leap, Hurray!
“Thirty days has September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31, except February, which is dumb.” That’s not the way the verse really goes, but it’s funny and rhymes. And, as it turns out, it’s not dumb, and that extra day we have every four years helped add structure and order to the calendar (and the world).
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... Our favorite foods! Food is universal because everybody’s got ta eat! And the last two months of the year are filled with more than their fair share of family meals, work gatherings, special outings to favorite restaurants, tins filled with homemade cookies and fudge, and the anticipation of food traditions handed down from generation to generation
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May 26, 20237 minute READ
John and Faye Cooper: Why We Support Land Trusts
Even before we bought the Mast General Store, we were taken by the beauty of Valle Crucis. We’ve heard people describe the drive out Broadstone Road as traveling through a time portal. In the 1970s, fields in the river bottoms would be filled with tobacco, cabbage, or high with hay to feed cattle that were grazing in the summer pasture.
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April 20, 20235 minute READ
Mark Earth Day with a Plan for Action
The lucky few who have seen the Earth from a different perspective – astronauts - all echo the same viewpoint upon their return. Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut and the first human to go to space, commented, “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.”
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