The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, opened 1978 and reopened 2010, stocks books and Penguin Classics. Staff recommendations come from people who read them.
Ellen Shapiro and Barry Samuels opened the Golden Notebook in a former pharmacy on Tinker Street in 1978, naming it after the Doris Lessing novel. For 32 years they ran it as an independent fixture, for a while adding a dedicated children's store next door and a small press, before closing in 2010 as e-book sales cut into bookstores everywhere. The shop didn't stay closed long: Jacqueline Kellachan, a former epidemiologist, bought it and reopened it that same October after a quick renovation. In 2015, James Conrad, who'd run the Woodstock Wool Company and bought the building itself, took on half the business alongside her.
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