By Rod Lee

What started as a slow morning on the occasion of Primitive Goods in Uxbridge’s fifth anniversary celebration two Sundays before Easter got much better later on.

  “It was a beautiful day for a drive,” Karen Shaw of Holliston, accompanied by Joe Baskowski, said, as they looked over an ancient hardcover book in Jeanne Silvia’s store on Mendon St.

  “We like this place,” Mr. Baskowski said. “We like Frenchmen’s Boulevard in New Bedford too. It’s right on the water, first floor, it’s an actual old train station.”

Ms. Silvia needn’t have worried about the kind of response her event would get. By afternoon, customers were coming in.

“I come here every weekend,” Tracey Lebel of Milford said. “I’m just looking for whatever catches my eye.”

  “I shopped here one other time,” Carla Chatterly of Sterling, Connecticut said. “I’m finding some goodies!”

  Melissa Nydam of Northbridge is quite familiar with Primitive Goods, and is a frequent presence.

  “I clean the bathrooms,” Ms. Nydam, who described herself as “the youngest of six Nydam children,” said.

  When she realized that the person she addressed thought she was kidding about the reference to janitorial labors, Ms. Nydam said “I do clean the bathrooms, for Jeanne. We usually barter in exchange but today I’m buying. She’s wonderful, and the place is so cute.”

  One of a number of antique and gift shops in the town of Uxbridge, Primitive Goods has made a place for itself with birdhouses, vintage signs, kitchen paraphernalia including spoon racks, towel racks, woven baskets, pottery, shelving, furniture, and a host of other hard-to-find items.

Contact Rod Lee at [email protected] or 774-232-2999.