Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Flannery Buchanan.

Flannery Buchanan moved to Crozet with her family in 2018 from the Chicago area. She was trained and worked briefly as a school librarian until she began having children and then she stayed home for 15 years raising her four kids. When Flannery was ready to go back to work, she opened Bluebird Bookstop out of a vintage trailer and took it around to vineyards, festivals, coffee shops, anywhere that had people gathering. It was a way for her to test the market without too much overhead. Eventually it became clear that Crozet would support a brick and mortar so Flannery partnered with her friend Chelsea, who had a background in apparel and they opened Bluebird & Company.

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