Golden Gese Quilt Shop

Nancy Gesen has been running Golden Gese Quilt Shop in Concord since 1986, which puts the shop at nearly forty years now — long enough to have taught more than one generation of the same family to quilt. Small towns and small cities don't always keep a shop like this open for four decades, but Concord has.

The shop carries quilting supplies and fabrics along with craft wools, a slightly less common combination that speaks to an owner who's kept the inventory personal rather than chasing every trend. Quilting lessons round out the offering, taught with the kind of patience that only comes from having done this for most of a lifetime.

If you're in Concord and want a shop with real history behind the counter — not a claim, an actual owner who's been there since the Reagan administration — this is it.