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Here in Dayton WA, there is a small store, Steve's Grocery, that always manages to track down the best watermelons every summer. One day while purchasing some watermelons here, I thought, "This is a pretty cool aspect of small town America. I should paint this place," and so I did.

What amazed me was the reaction afterward in my hometown, when many people reached out to comment on the neighborhood grocery, and how it has impacted their lives. A number of people mentioned how they remember it in its first location, along the highway between Dayton and nearby Waitsburg, something I didn't know about at all.

Others commented on the friendliness of the place, how they ran down there on a regular basis to pick up ice cream or beer or . . . watermelons.

One of the things I've found most intriguing about Steve's grocery is the name, Steve. I don't know when, or if, there was an actual Steve, but for years it was owned by a man named Gale, and after that, to Gale's daughte...

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