Greg Titus, of Jamesville, talks with his daughter, Maggie Gaj, of Syracuse, shown with her 4-month-old daughter, Lillian Gaj.
Titus ran the General Store exhibit at the Daniel Parrish Witter Agricultural Museum during the New York Farm Show at the New York State Fairgrounds Feb. 22.
Titus, a museum board member, said the exhibit is designed to allow visitors to step back in time and see what a general store looked like 100 years ago.
Small town general stores offered groceries and sometimes doubled as hardware stores, drug stores and post offices. They were also an important gathering spot and center of life. The Witter Museum was open each day of the New York Farm Show, which ran Feb. 22-24.
Other displays and exhibits included a 19th century log cabin, weaving, broom making, woodworking, basket making, sewing and more.
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