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To market
Stacy Wengler and her husband, Kyle , have been organizing the 605 Made Markets for 10 years, giving local makers an outlet to sell their items. One day while driving home from a vacation, the couple wondered about having a physical location to help out the makers who didn’t have storefronts or were just pursuing their hobbies. “I thought, ‘Could we do this all the time?’” said Stacy. “Kyle was like, ‘Yeah, we could,” she remembered. On that truck ride they started a list, writing down everything they would want in a building for a storefront in Hartford.
“We got home and just kept moving forward with it,” said Stacy.
The couple opened Knotty Gnome Variety & Salvage in 2016.
Written by Greta Smith + Photos by Cailyn Patterson
THE 605 BEST ISSUE december 2024 + january 2025
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