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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Gudrun Bellerjeau — A Knox shop as a place to get away
Description: Gudrun Bellerjeau values cultures from around the world and has collected “quality-made” goods from far-flung places to sell in a 200-year-old barn she and her husband own in Knox — the Pleasant Valley Exquisitum. “You don’t have to buy junk stuff,” she says, adding, “The shop is really a psychology center … a place to get away from the hassles, from the phony stuff. You’re stepping into a different world.” Bellerjeau was born, raised, and educated in Germany in a “very poor family,” she says in this week’s podcast. Her father was killed in Russia at the age of 27, leaving his 23-year-old wi...