Cutcher's Brownhelm Store – Part 2

Bill and Bonnie Cutcher's Brownhelm Store continued to be a favorite subject of Lorain Journal articles over the years, as we shall see. 

Twenty-one years after Bob Cotleur's 1974 profile of the Cutcher's, the well-remembered and beloved Journal reporter Darlene Brown conducted her own interview with Bonnie Cutcher. Brown's story ran in the Journal on December 14, 1995 and includes a nice capsule history of not only the store and its predecessors, but of Brownhelm Township as well.

Here is Darlene's article.

Darlene's article mentions a community well that was located in front of the Brownhelm Store. I wrote about it back here in 2012.

One date in the article seems to be a typo. 1947 is noted as the year that the Cutcher's tore down the old store and built a new one, but according to the small item below, it appears that the date should be 1974.

From the Journal of Sept. 12, 1974

Two years after Darlene's article, Bonnie and the store were profiled in the Journal again – this time by well-known professional writer, editor and coach Kelly Boyer Sagert. Her great interview ran in the Journal on August 10, 1997.

Tomorrow: One last interview with Bonnie Cutcher – and some other tidbits