Cashiers  

Amanda

 

Beth

 

Cail

 

Jeffrey Lipton

 

Bob Lovell

I have worked at The Creamery for about nineteen years. Born in Amherst on a chicken farm (yes - there were quite a few working farms in Amherst in the 1940's, 50's and even the 60's) I moved to Northampton and eventually to Windsor and built a house in Windsor Jams (I think I was trying to escape from the world , to no avail, the world went and found me). I had at that time retired from twenty years as a job shop printer, starting at Hamilton I. Newell in Amherst and ending at Commonwealth Printers (a worker owned cooperative) in Hadley. Now I am a bookbinder in the 18th and 19th century tradition (a solitary occupation) and work Tuesday through Friday at The Creamery (my much loved social engagement with the world)

My wife Cynthia (Cynda) May, (a master gardener and an artist/craftswomen) and myself live in West Chesterfield, where I, besides helping Cynda care for the homestead, read (all kinds of writing), play southern Appalachian old time music with friends and tinker with my classic motorcycle and sidecar. Other interest are short wave radio, call sign KB1JWY, radio scanning, and cruising the World Wide Web.

The Creamery has, since Ron and Robert Berenson bought it in the 90's, become a fixture in our smallish world, bringing the wonders and travails of the wide world a little bit closer to all of us (much to the chagrin of some I suppose). I wish all the best to those who are trying to reinvent the old world concept of the GENERAL STORE.

Favorite quotes:
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind." - Kahlil Gibran

"Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to presume to go about unlabelled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control." -Thomas Huxley 

bob@oldcreamerycoop.org    

Steve Philbrick

 

Heather van Werkhooven

 

heather@oldcreamerycoop.org    

Co-Owner/Manager  

Alice Cozzolino

 

Amy Pulley

Talking to us in person or over the phone works best for us as we seldom have time to look at email.  

Bakery  

Nancy Cole

 

Lori Holmes

 

Peri Kelly

 

Rose Wessel

Rose has been one of our morning bakers since 2008. She supplies the customers with the morning muffins, scones, donuts and first round of coffees as well as starting off the day's bread. She also makes cornbread, foccacia bread, cookies, brownies and a host of other goodies for our bakery department.
Aside from baking three days a week, Rose is an an artist, making oil paintings on sculpted canvases and exhibiting around the northeast. Her work can be seen online at www.rosemarywessel.com. She also operates her graphic design and consulting business, Three Salamanders Design Studio; doing design for print and web and photography and video from her home office and at clients' locations. In her spare time, she catches an hour or two of sleep. 

rose@threesalamanders.com     www.threesalamanders.com

Bakery / Cook  

Emmy Howard

 

Cooking  

Annette Rubino-Buckley

Hi! I am Annette, one of the two full-time cooks. In June 2010, I will have worked at the store for 8 years. When I'm not surrounded by steaming pots in the kitchen, I'm either working on my card business or outside walking or gardening. 

    www.rubinocards.com

Noel Shears Pennell

 

Cook's Prep  

Janine Parker

 

Prep/Deli  

Jesse Massaro

 

Deli  

Robin Cummings

 

Karen Harrison

 

Christine Lacey

 

Salena Levi

I have been working in the deli at The Old Creamery for an amazing 8 years (will be in May 2010). I had thought I had come for a short stay on my way to somewhere else. Didn't expect to land in such a "tub of love" (that's a quote from the movie, "Enchanted April".
I first began working in a professional kitchen back in the late 80's as a member of the kitchen team at Green Pastures in southern New Hampshire. It was an intentional community with a spiritual focus, but mainly we expressed our spirit with great food, a six acre organic garden, and wonderful performing arts in the newly built chapel/auditorium. I was there four years and loved it, in spite of some weird politics going on in the international organization as a whole.
Besides being a "foodie", I also have been involved in the arts my whole life, both visual and some performing too. Ceramics became my form of livelihood in the late 70's to the late 80's, and I have since returned to it for personal expression from time to time. I have also been involved in energy healing work since the mid 80's beginning with Reiki and now as a Reconnective Healing practitioner. All of these interests hold a common theme: serving up nourishment for the Body and Soul. 

Toni Reed

 

Cleaning/Stocking  

Kiera Fisher

 

Sheryl Magdycz

 

Adam Pepi

 

Jessie Stevens

 

Grocery/Produce  

Spring

 

Peter Mitchell

 

peter@oldcreamerycoop.org