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| Ray’s Market sign on the south end of the building, April 2019. |
For 40 years, beginning in 1953, if you lived in Shattuckville, perhaps you picked up your mail at Ray’s Market and bought an excellent steak he had butchered, some bread, maybe some candy for your daughter, and chatted with neighbors in the store that stood on the west bank of the North River by the old iron bridge. If you lived, say, on Wilson Hill, you might have regular deliveries from the store by a Fischlein son or high school student. Before Ray and Irene Fischlein bought that store it had had a succession of owners stretching back to the original Shattuck and had served a population that for decades perhaps depended on it because they had no cars.
The Colrain Historical Society will focus on Fischlein’s store and the community it served in a program
Thursday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m., in Joan McQuade’s barn at 7 Main Road, Colrain.
The program, which is free and open to the public, will follow a
meeting at 7:00 p.m. when we’ll have an update on the Pitt House property and the Arthur Smith Covered Bridge.
For further information call Belden at 624-3453
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| Early July 2019. The sign has been removed from the end of the building and donated to the Colrain Historical Society by the Fischlein family. |
Ray and Irene Fischlein pose near the store entrance, late 1980s or early 1990s.
Ray Fischlein trims a steak at the store’s butcher counter.
