When Brenda Neufeld’s mother, Joan MacPherson, opened a small arts and crafts store in St. Marys in 1972, she could hardly have imagined where the family business would be more than 50 years later.
For more than five decades, the MacPherson family has built, adapted and reinvented its business in downtown St. Marys. Now, facing major changes in the company’s once-lucrative U.S. market, Brenda Neufeld is doing it again.