26 Main Street, Millerton, NY

And then, very suddenly, a village appears. The rolling farmland along the border between New York and Massachusetts parts and Millerton appears, with all its genteel new money on display. Perhaps not NEW new, but Millerton is one of those small, almost-hidden nearby towns like Rhinebeck, Kinderhook, Stockbridge, Lenox, or Athens that has seen small waves of artists and the well-to-do leave New York City for trendy enclaves just like this, and Oblong Books is just the bookstore to bring the literary flair of the big city to quiet country living.