Wrentham Country Store All About Real Antiques
Wrentham Country Store owner Mary Ellen Shia says antiques are her passion ever since she was a kid.
Owner and operator Mary Ellen Shia has owned the Wrentham Country Store for six years now, but she said she’s always been a collector. “I grew up with it,” she said. “My mother always collected. After we moved here we started going to yards. When I was 10, she used to take me out to yard sales, estate sales and flea markets. I’ve always had older things around me. It was in my blood” Shia said she was renting a space for two years from the store’s previous owner, when he moved to California. Six years ago, she took over the store. “I knew that the store could be bigger and better than it was at the time. I was really driven,” she said. Shia said she wanted to do something a bit different as well. She said that many antique stores sell high…
