Towpath Antiques & Books (Closed)
Contact: Sally Brillon
Region: Capitol - Saratoga
Mysteries On Main Street
Mysteries on Main Street is a Full-line Bookstore specializing in Adirondack and local history books, also mysteries and children’s titles. It sells many gift items such as figurines, candles, plush, etc. Priscilla Mitchell is the proprietor.
The Little Book House
Market Block Books
Fishermen’s Supply Christian Bookstore
BainsBookBarn
University at Albany (SUNY) Official Bookstore
Tattered Pages Used Books
Tattered Pages Used Books has been in existence since October 2006. They have over 17,000 books in their shop offering customers trade credit towards future purchases.
Herman Melville Home (Lansingburgh Historical Society)
Herman Melville’s house in Troy, New York, 2 114th Street and First Avenue, is marked with a plaque. Melville’s first poems were published in the area. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Yaddo Artists Colony
Yaddo Artists Colony, founded by Kate (Katrina) Trask, is located off Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs. Among the writers who have been in residence are James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks, Claude Brown, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, John Ciardi, Amy Clampitt, Peter Davison, Kenneth Fearing, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, David Ignatow, Alfred Kreymborg, … Continued