Fernandes Lumber and Home Center a Real Family Business

The store has a long tradition in Easton.

Emanuel Fernandes started Fernandes Lumber in 1958, and now his son, daughter and son-in-law are carrying on his vision.  “We’ve taken it over and of course since we’ve been here we’ve gone through a lot of challenges,” said Ken Fernandes, Emanuel’s son. Emanuel Fernandes works with his brother-in-law and sister, Tom and Dianna Farrell in the store. While it looks like a well-built and efficient building standing on Depot Street now, Fernandes said it wasn’t always the case. His father originally started the store from an old produce stand and kept expanding as his business grew. “He would build a little addition if he could afford it,” he said. “The old store was inefficient so that’s why we built this building.” The new building was …

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More Memories Of Grocery And Provisions Markets From Days Gone By In Easton

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  It was nice and heartening that the column I wrote – the one titled, Remembering The "Family" Markets In Easton that was published on Easton Patch last Thursday – stirred a happy foment of nostalgia and commentary about those days gone by.  And, here, let me explain a bit.   When one of my “Muscato’s Musings” columns posts on Patch, usually within 24 hours of the column being published, I post a link to the column on my Facebook page. Now, you know, among my Facebook friends there is a coterie of hard core Eastonians.   Some of the Tribe of Easton still live here in town, others live outside of Easton, but close by – and there are others who live far away in the U.S., as far away as California. Then again, one of my Facebook friends …

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