404 E. Main: Caddo Trail Arts—Blueberry Wine tasting from 9-4pm and Book
Signing with Jodi Johnson from 11-1pm. Jodi Johnson is the author of
Texas children’s books. 9:00-4:00pm.
408 E. Main: Stuff n Such—Red Tag stickers through out the store as well.
Outside booth will have a 50% off sale. 8 am to 5 pm
407 E. Main: SHERRY WARD FINE ARTS STUDIO & ART ON MAINGALLERY—Moving Sale, featuring local artists you love to collect. Original
art, photographs, art prints, wood turnings, jewelry, art books, frames, ea
sels, antiques, display cases and much more. 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
409 E. Main – The French Knot—20% off fabric and notions. 7:30-5:00pm.
411 E. Main: SPECIAL FIND ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES—Any item that
has any color of blue in it will be 25% off. Red Tags stickers through out
mall as well. 8 am – 5 pm
412 E. Main: NACOGDOCHES ANTIQUE MARKET—Hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
For fresh produce and jams, visit the FARMER’S MARKET west of downtown at West
Main and Pearl Streets from 8 a.m.-noon.
PLEASE do not bring food or drink in the stores.
RESTROOMS available at the Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB),
200 E. Main, and at 15 portable stalls downtown.

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By Erin McKeon
Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel

Dolli Geyerman considers herself a foodie, someone who has a particularly strong love for food in various forms and fashions.

The owner of the Olde Towne General Store at 205 East Main Street grew up in her grandmother’s kitchen trying to learn everything she could about cooking.

“My grandmother was an amazing cook,” Geyerman said. “I was always under her feet, I had my own stool and apron, and I just wish I would have written stuff down. My grandma never had recipes, she was the type who had a ‘little of this and a little of that’ and it was amazing.”

Geyerman has turned into that cook, she said, driving her employees crazy because they find it difficult to replicate her dishes.

Her love for baking, she said, began when she was 17 and needed a summer job while she was living in California.

Marie Callender’s was the perfect spot.

“They are famous for their fresh strawberry pies, and I started working in the kitchen making strawberry pies, hundreds of strawberry pies,” Geyerman said. “I worked for them for six years and actually met my husband there, too, because he was a cook.”

The two of them moved to Nacogdoches a few years ago, and saw the building for sale downtown. Geyerman told her dad it had to be hers.

“I could not believe the gal was selling it,” she said. “It was perfect timing. I came in and she wanted to get out. It was love at first sight, and I told my dad, ‘I will see my children have this.’”

When she’s baking, Geyerman’s preference is cheesecake.

“I’m a big fan of cheesecake, because you can be so creative, there is no right or wrong way to do it, whatever you want to put in it, put it in.”

Cooking and baking for Geyerman is something that is just in her blood.

“If you are not half crazy, and if you don’t love what you do with such a passion, you will never make it,” she said.

The love for cooking Geyerman felt as a child in her grandmother’s kitchen is the same love her children have for it now.

“My kids are growing up now and my youngest daughter, who is 6, is just how I used to be to my grandma,” Geyerman said. “She is in the kitchen, she is under my feet, she is in things, she wants to taste things. I’m raising a foodie, I’m raising three foodies, and it’s amazing.”