Amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, in 1929, Clarence Wemett, an upstate New York petroleum merchant, underwrote a craft shop bordering U.S. Route 20 and, a few years later, a different one 15 miles away. "Tourists and Trade contains an index and a complete listing of notes and references, which are well organized and useful in this interesting and original premise that has rarely been considered." — Maine Antique Digest