We are a Vermont Gallery featuring Native American, Inuit, and Vermont Arts and Crafts, including indigenous art from across the entire North American Continent. We have selected a few special areas from our wide and varied inventory for this website.
    Our retail store is located in Manchester Center, a small community in Southern Vermont. We're a convenient four hour drive from New York City and Montreal, three hours from Boston, and a quick trip from the Albany area. We have been open seven days a week since 1986, and are proud of our reputation for representing some of the most interesting Native artists from all across the continent. We are open during regular business hours, seven days a week, throughout the year. The store is right in the center of town, yet we have plenty of parking - please call for directions.
     We would love to have you on our in-house mailing list of repeat customers (it's well past the fifteen thousand mark and growing!). This list is not for rent or sale - we only use it to send announcements for special exhibits and featured artist's shows throughout the year. If you have an e-mail address, you can get on a special "early-bird" list to be informed of any large updates of our website. Go to our Contact Us page and fill in the information.
     We hope you enjoy this website, and that you'll let us know if there is anything we can do to help you.
      Thanks!
      Grant and Betsy Turner, Owners

Our physical address is:
   Long Ago and Far Away
   P.O. Box 809,
   Green Mountain Village Shops,
4963 Main Street,
   Manchester Center, Vermont   
   05255-0809

This photo is on the cover of a recent mailing.      This Inuit family allowed their photo to be taken by my father, Barney Turner, on the north-western coast of Greenland in 1948 or 49. Apparently they were showing off their winter clothing, as the photo was taken in the warmest time of the summer. At the time, Dad was Mate on the Arctic  Schooner Bowdoin, a sailboat that is now the "Official Sailing Vessel of the State of Maine".  The voyages my father took aboard the Bowdoin, and the artifacts and crafts he gathered while in the North, mark the beginning of our family's association with the art of the Arctic people. He brought back an appreciation for the Inuit to his parent's store in Northern Ontario, and expanded their collection of regional Native Arts and Crafts.      Life has gotten faster and distances have been shortened, but we still hold onto some of the magic created by these and other people who lived off the land. It was, truly, long ago and far away. Grant Turner