Winding Trail Books is celebrating its grand opening this weekend at 2230 Carter Ave. #8, St. Paul, Minn., the Park Bugle reported, adding that for Sue Costello, co-owner with Rick Gahm, the new book and gift shop "is a fulfillment of one life ambition."
"As a book lover who has spent many hours in libraries and bookstores over the years, it has always been a dream of mine to own a bookstore," she said. They were looking for "the perfect space to open our store and fell in love with the space at Milton Square. Our bookstore is named Winding Trail Books for our love of nature and the time that we spent going on long walks talking about our dreams of owning our own book/gift store.... We hope to be a place where you can discover a new book or author or where you can revisit a book or author from your past."
Costello told the Pioneer Press: "Rick and I bring to the book business years of experience in the business industry, including owning our own businesses. Rick has run his own mortgage company, and I have worked in finance and early childhood education and have an extra love for children's books."
Costello and Gahm "found the perfect spot in the Courtyard Shoppes at Milton Square. The more than 100-year-old buildings create a fairy-tale scene," Vadnais Heights Press noted.
"It looks like it's out of a storybook," she said. "Like they plucked it out of a scene of Grimms' Fairy Tales." Inside, the shop will be painted with whimsical murals by artist and children's illustrator Shawn McCann.