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ABOUT US
Our Story ...
In 1994, Marge and Dan Thomas took early retirement from Morehead State University and opened a little coffeeshop in the back of Book Haven (the local independent bookstore started in 1978) in the Morehead Plaza. Slowly, they added food choices, gave up on the idea of opening a coffeeshop at 10:00 a.m., and became a community center. They acquired the bookstore along with Jeannie and Bill Huie and renamed it CoffeeTree Books in 1998.
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​It became more fully a family business when daughter Susan moved back to Morehead in 2004 and took over operation of CoffeeTree Books in 2006. In March 2011, following a flood, the businesses moved to its new
converted movie theater at 159 E. Main Street.
Today, Susan operates the business with her husband, Grant Alden, and sometimes their daughter, Maggie. But if you want to know where the Fuzzy Duck name came from, you'll have to come real early in the morning and ask Dan. Just don't believe anything he says.
We added a yarn component to the business in 2009 to appease a local fiber artist who wanted to teach classes on knitting and crochet. Because Susan and Marge and Marge's mother, Thelma, were also knitters, the section expanded, adding classes and fiber events, carving out a little corner and renaming it, A Good Yarn inside CoffeeTree Books.
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So what are we really about? Our motto has long been “Open Books Open Minds,” but let us expand on that: We believe in open doors, open hearts, open acceptance. Stop by and see what we're about.