Owl Pen Books Reopens for 66th Season
Photo via Owl Pen Books.
GREENWICH — Regarded as the oldest bookstore in the Capital Region, Owl Pen Books in Greenwich will reopen for its 66th season on Saturday, April 25 at 11 a.m.
The opening date coincides with Independent Bookstore Day. Book and music lovers are encouraged to shop the inventory of nearly 100,000 used, rare, and antiquarian books, prints, and ephemera, as well as used LPs, CDs, and cassettes.
The book farm will host a number of events this season, including a multi-vendor vinyl record fair and the return of Hubbard Hall’s annual Shakespeare in the Park.
Originally opened in an old hog pen in 1960 by Barbara Probst, Owl Pen has since expanded into a large former chicken coop and welcomed tens of thousands of visitors to its unlikely location “on a back road off a back road.” In 1945, Probst stumbled on the then-abandoned property and decided to devote her life to restoring it. Current owners Eric Kufs and Sydney Nichols stumbled on the property for sale online in 2021 and purchased the bookstore and surrounding acres in 2022.
Owl Pen’s 66th season will run from April 25 through Nov. 1, Wednesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The bookstore can be found online at www.OwlPenBooks.com and on Instagram and Facebook @owlpenbooks.