| Type | General Store |
| Location | Turkey Hill, New Hampshire |
| Owner(s) | Grover Cowley |
| Featured in | Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow (2014) |
Cowley's General Store is a general store located in the small town of Turkey Hollow, which contained only 27 people who operated mostly as turkey farmers. It was featured in the comic Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow.
Overview[]
Due to the small population, the municipal infrastructure of the town was all run from the general store, which functioned also as a police station, post office and town hall. Additionally positions such as the mayor, sheriff, and postmaster were all filled by Grover Cowley the storekeeper.
History[]
In 1968, Grover was preparing his outdoor produce section when he was visited by local woman Clytemnestra Henderson and her nephew Timmy to buy a new guitar pick after he was chased away by Eldridge Sump a mean old farmer claiming he was trespassing on his property. Grover disapproved of Sump's behavior in threatening Cly's nephew and niece and grew more angry when the farmer burst into his establishment demanding he arrest Timmy. Cly was angry at the old man, as he had been making claims on her property of ownership as far as he could remember. Sump tried to claim ownership, with new evidence, but Grover taking a look at the evidence saw it was only gas bill. His ruses exposed, Sump left slamming the door of the store on his way out. Grover seeing that the mood for Cly and Timmy had been spoiled by Sump, gave them a free bag of apples for their troubles.
Some days later close to Thanksgiving, Grover was over the phone with Clem, one of the locals, reassuring that they did not see a Martian outside. It was then he was interrupted by Sump claiming that Cly and her family were consorting with demons. Grover was dubious by Sump's outlandish claim, though was nervous when the farmer also said that there was also a rumor Cly danced naked on the full moon, a fact that Grover knew, which he believed was proof as a witch, but Grover refused to believe Sump's claims.
Still he wore his sheriff's uniform to do a little investigation. He was in dismay when Sump brought several witnesses, a mob of locals who also disliked and distrusted Cly thank to Sump's words of demos. Grover then headed to Cly's residence and from a window to his shock saw her family having a fun time with seven odd-looking monsters. Unsure of what he saw, Grover wen back to the mob, to try and explain, but SUmp merely pushed him aside and barged into Cly's home. Luckily the monsters sensing the approach fled, sparing Grover from having to explain their existences to the townsfolk. While he was willing to keep quiet about the Hendersons new friends to himself, he still wanted an explanation on what they were.
The next day, Grover awoke to reports of thefts of turkeys all around town, which Sump and the others blamed on the monsters. Grover heading out into the woods found turkey feathers all over the monsters, making them prime suspects. Having no choice, Grover was forced to put them in his jailhouse. Timmy believed in their innocence and while bringing them food, he realized that the monsters could not have eaten the turkeys as they only ate rock. After Timmy broke the monsters out of jail by convincing them to eat the rocks in the walls, Grover at Sump's insistence was again forced to do his job. In the ensuing chase, Grover and Timmy learned that it was Sump who had taken all the turkeys and framed Cly and her family for the thefts in a plot to steal her land. Grover then arrested Sump for his crime.