Books and Other Found Things, VA

On my way home from Washington D.C. after attending the Women’s March with my mother, we stopped for lunch in the quaint colonial town of Leesburg in Virginia. The town is full of wine shops (it’s the heart of Virginia wine country), antique stores, museums, cute restaurants and this adorable used bookshop. It’s directly across…

Scranberry Coop, NJ

The Scranberry Coop in Andover, NJ, is a 10,000 square-foot warehouse with more than 150 antique and collectibles dealers. You might be tempted to pronounce it “co-op,” but it’s actually pronounced “coop.” “The Coop is not a co-op, which is why it is pronounced “coop” which rhymes with “scoop.” We are one store. When we’re…

The Maine Bookhouse, ME

The Maine Bookhouse is a family-owned bookstore in an old pumpkin-colored house with slanted floorboards and low ceilings in Oxford, Maine. I ended up putting back ten books while tallying up my embarrassingly large order at the cash register (my boyfriend and I were the only customers in the store for an hour, so I’m hoping…

Riverbooks, ME

While heading to Vaughn Woods, a small park in Hallowell, Maine, known to locals as “Hobbit Land” for its picturesque series of stone bridges, we found this incredible bookstore that uses an honor pay system. I spent five minutes looking around the narrow store for an employee until I noticed a small sign that said:…

Cabot Mill Antiques, ME

This massive antique market is on the ground floor of a renovated mill on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick, Maine, which is the town where I lived for four years while attending Bowdoin College. I purchased an 1854 copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton for a mere $25.