Seated on the driver’s side running board of her store’s time-weathered peddler truck, Yvonne Gilyard Reynolds was enthusiastically recalling the history of the 1928 Ford Model AA. “The store has owned this truck for 95 years,” she said. “The business itself started five years earlier, so this was bought brand new by Merritt in 1928.”  Merritt was Merritt A. Clarke, who began peddling dry goods from Bantam, CT in 1923. The store that bears his name is still operating and will celebrate its 100th anniversary in September. Reynolds and her late husband, Kent, bought the business – and the …