“In 1989, Scott deWolfe began selling Shaker books, ephemera, photographs and manuscripts. Frank Wood had been selling used and rare books since the 1970s. Both worked for the Sabbathday Shaker Community in Maine.

When the two realized they would make good business partners, they started doing shows together in 1990. Two years later, during a snow storm on April Fool’s Day, the doors to De Wolfe & Wood opened for the first time.”

I met with the two of them at their store in Alfred, Maine to take up the story from here.