Dec 2, 2011

Puffins Gift Shop Moving From Watch Hill into MysticBy TheDay.com

Mystic, CT – The Puffins gift shop in Watch Hill is moving to downtown Mystic, taking over a 1,700-square-foot space where the vacated Puritan & Genesta health food store once did business.

Puffins owner Margot Carlson, who ran a similarly named shop in Mystic many years ago at Factory Square, had been operating her retail store on a seasonal basis in Watch Hill for more than a quarter century. She is planning to close her Watch Hill store as part of a year-round move to Mystic starting in mid December, moving into about a third of a vacant building on Holmes Street.

“We are so excited to have her come back to Mystic,” said Tricia Cunningham, president of the Greater Mystic Chamber of Commerce. “Her business is a good fit.”

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