"Urban organic chic...ALMANAC, a store so artistically conceived you may not find anything like it this side of Los Angeles or perhaps Marsielles." 
- Lehigh Valley Living Magazine

Almanac is a 21st-century spin on the general store located in the historic Times building in Springtown, PA. The upper Bucks County shop is housed in an authentic general store dating to the late 1800's.

We search the world for items which fit our vision of good design, quality, or authenticity. Our products are rustic yet refined, range from country to modern, and new as well as vintage. Most share an organic or natural sensibilities. Many are handcrafted by global or local artisans.

Like early general stores, Almanac stocks a wide range of merchandise that is well edited and handsomely displayed. Some things currently in stock are ceramics from Tunisia, Bulgaria and Spain; Denyse Schmidt quilts; books on nature, food and wine; mesquite woodcutting boards; unique tea pots; large serving wood bowls; Provencal print table linens; Pre de Provence soaps and lotions; botanical motif glassware; Gwen Frostic and Heron Dance Press books and stationary; Bailywick soy candles; Caldrea cleaning products; Ben Wolf garden pots; award-winning children's books and toys; and much more, all appealing to Almanac's aesthetic mission. In addition, Almanac has now expanded with a select line of specialty foods with THE PANTRY. Please visit THE PANTRY page for details.

Almanac - a beautiful shop with goods for the home, heart and soul.

"Almanac, a trendy general store, opens in Springtown...To us, the word "almanac" connotes the past ­ a book full of previoulsy acquired knowledge. But to entrepreneur Bryan Norris, Almanac means something new. It's the name of a store he recently opened at 3201 Route 212, Springtown, Bucks County. Norris describes Almanac as "a stylish spin on the general store," with a mix of fashionable items in different price ranges. Prices start at $1.75 for handmade tin ornaments from Mexico, and head up to $320 for a Denyse Schmidt quilt. Other offerings range from soaps to home furnishings, ceramics to books, candles to textiles."
- The Morning Call

"A new twist on the general store...Almanac is a newly launched retail store... with a mix of stylish, fashionable goods in a wide range of price points."
- Lehigh Valley Style Magazine

"...as customers walk through the two tall wooden doors, they are greeted with mellow music, soft lighting, the fragrant aroma of a lit candle, and an eclectic mix of items for all ages...In the 1800s, residents would have shopped at Laubachs Central General Store. A framed photograph of the building has an inscription that provides a history of the building. The centuries-old-building, which was once the home of the Springtown Times Newspaper, was also a cigar store and a grocery store... longtime residents recall shopping for groceries at the store as recently as the 1950s... Arranged on shelves as the items would appear in a home are serving dishes such as signed-by-the-artisan Talavera plates front he Pueblo area that are decorative and yet highly functional. From Mexico, there are colorful ornaments displayed by hanging from a tree branch, and a burnished terra cotta dinnerware made by the (Mexican) Indians."
- Bucks County Herald

"Like general-store owners of yesteryear, Norris likes to be hands-on with hand-made goods... He stores the spirit of a general store in a wooden refridgerator that holds jars of jam ... and in optic apothecary jars which resemble small glass hat boxes. The atmosphere of a SoHo emporium can be found in a traveling lantern with three candles in narrow glass globes... Almanac is a shrine to childhood, too. Norris sells balsa gliders he flew and Miesse candies he ate as a kid. He sells new versions of old Fisher-Price toys... "
- The Morning Call