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Our Story
Embodying Heritage

;Lady captains" like my gggrandmother and namesake Louise Chase did wenerything but sterr and swail the ship (and took a hand inthat too.  I like to say that being named 'Amy Louise Phillips after 'lady captain' Louise – made it inevitable that I, your proprietor, would drift into family archiving and then writing and illustrating our stories, and now in offering these products, each as unique as the life of Annie, one of only a handful of children like her who ever lived!  I am a a high-school dropout and a PhD.  As a teenager, I fully co-owner of two stores selling the Great Works and the crafts needed to found an egalitarian society. Her experience in retail visual  mercahndising for large owners lend her product designs just that mass appeal and never-before-seen quality we yearn for today. 

I ask my maternal ancestors if every move I make is right, and gee, do I edit a lot!maternal ancestorsnd we sell is bags, bombers, blankets, Annie would have loved to have on board to make her dead boring and violence-soaked life bearable, nay much better!.

We have come to find that everything we sell is something you, too, will love to have on board!

But family influences every business decision and product design, embodying Louise and Annie and extending down to us. They are as unique as the life of Annie, one of only a handful of children like her who ever lived! Stick around, and the professor in me will teach you how to do the same!)

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In this photgraph is Annie's so Hanson (2nd from right) and Amy's Grandmother Pauline KNowlton (center). I chose this to show that both sides of my family came from the same small Maine city, Westbrook. Even trhere's stil la Knowlton Machind Shop here, there's the Chase's of today, all connecting with one another thrpugh Peak's Island family days... . 

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