Alaska Star:
Mother-and-daughter team Jill and Liz Dean opened Grassroots: A Fair Trade Store about a month and a half ago in Anchorage. Jill, a Chugiak resident for 20 years, owns the business. Her 18-year-old daughter and spring 2008 Chugiak High School graduate, Liz, manages the store.
The shop’s shelves and tables are laden with hand-made crafts: hair pins, jewelry, scarves, handbags and other accessories – as well as musical instruments, children’s toys, tablecloths, dishes, flatware, decorative sculptures, embroidered wall art, picture frames.
Each object contains something that’s usually missing from our mass-production society: the unmistakable imprint of a creative human spirit.
“That’s what it’s all about: that human connection,” Jill said.
Photo by brighterworlds