Aug 16, 2013
Fictional Chocolatier Willy Wonka Inspires Huntsville Sisters to Open Chocolate Shop at Lowe MillBy Lucy BerryAL.com

Huntsville, AL – A framed 1971 poster portrait of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, the patron saint of chocolate, leans against a gray wall atop a white mantel at Pizzelle’s Confections in Huntsville.

The fictional, eccentric and celebrated chocolatier devised by beloved children’s author Roald Dahl in the 1964 novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” has been a lifelong inspiration for Huntsville sisters Michelle Novosel and Caitlin Lyon, who own Pizzelle’s at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment.

The entrepreneurs chose to make their childhood hero a fixture of their shop as a reminder of their younger years eating candy and watching the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”

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