WESTON For 64 years, it's been a mailbox staple, offering home remedies, kitchen wares and long-forgotten brands in hopes of helping consumers solve life's little problems, from spider veins to ...

Opened in 1946 by Vrest and Mildred Ellen Orton, The Vermont Country Store is a general store in Weston, Vermont, that sounds pretty much exactly like its name — quaint, old time-y, and very New ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Those in search of a hard-to-find gift this season might try The Vermont Country Store. From old-fashioned candy to a copy of a Dick and ...

In the 1970s, a shampoo called Lemon Up made quite the zesty splash. Created by the Gillette company, it featured bright yellow packaging, a bumpy, realistic lemon-shaped cap, and promised a full ...

The Vermont Country Store catalog is a walk through the past, a time when maple syrup graced every breakfast table and a woman's daily wear was an apron. Many of the hard-to-find items that are still ...

When television’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” special took aim at the holiday’s creeping commercialism a half-century ago, it targeted one particularly clanging symbol. So why is the Vermont Country ...

Proprietor Lyman Orton had an idea for his Vermont Country Store: Why not offer sexual aids — vibrators, instructional sex videos, “pleasure gels” — for older folks who still have sex but need a ...

When retailers across the northeast region of the United States first began closing stores to protect residents against the global pandemic, the leaders of The Vermont Country Store moved quickly to ...