Fortune Small Business:
It’s Sunday morning, and Louise Rogers (photo) is in her usual weekend pose: eyes downcast, strolling meditatively along the beach. She paws at a ribbon of gravel near the low-tide mark and picks up a milky aqua-colored lump the size of a matchbook. She brushes off the sand and issues her verdict: ‘Coca-Cola bottle. Before 1970.’
Rogers, 53, has been collecting sea glass since the age of 6. She logs several miles each Sunday beachcombing New England’s coastline with her husband and business partner, Ben. They founded Rogers Gallery, a custom framing and fine art store in Mattapoisett, Mass., in 1978. 7 years ago they added Surroundings, an adjacent home-furnishings and interior-design center. The 2 (surroundings-rogersgallery.com) generated a combined $3 million in sales last year.
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