Snapshot: Inside Brown & Hopkins in Chepachet - Rhode Island Monthly

Snapshot: Inside Brown & Hopkins in Chepachet - Rhode Island Monthly

Photo by Wolf Matthewson Growing up in Glocester, Cynthia Barlow often visited downtown Chepachet with her parents, where the penny candy at Brown & Hopkins Country Store was a favorite treat. “[My father] was the town sergeant for many years, so we were always in town and we’d stop in here,” she says, recounting the wax lips and candy cigarettes she favored as a kid. For years, she dreamed of owning a general store while working in the corporat…