The small town of Hobart, NY, calls itself the Book Village of the Catskills, and CBS News recently did a short feature piece on it. Hobart boasts seven bookstores in just a single block. The townsfolk got the idea from the famed Hay on Wye in England. If you like small used bookstores, then click on the image below. I bet you’ll dig this quick news clip of one of New York’s own book villages.
I love how one person with an idea can change the makeup and future of an entire town the way this woman seems to have done. Would love to visit that street one day.
You’ll have to add it to your next big road trip! I know I could make a full weekend out of that street. It would be nice if the idea of creating “book villages” caught on in a big way.