Former BHC student opens local coffee shop

Originally published in The Brookhaven Courier, Volume 41, Issue No. 9.

By Matthew Brown
Opinions Editor/Copy Editor

All of Native Coffee Co.’s tables were pushed into a back hallway for the coffee shop’s grand-opening ceremony. Half of the space was occupied by people seated attentively in rows around a musician singing and playing guitar Feb. 2. The rest of the shop was filled with chatting and laughing patrons – most holding cups of coffee despite the late hour.


“I just never imagined I’d be doing this,” Luke Jackson, co-founder and former Brookhaven College student, said. “Seeing all these people here tonight is just a validation of what I said about Native’s core values: Coffee is great, but people are better.”