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Mitchell’s Book Corner showcases books by authors participating in the Nantucket Book Festival. The store was founded in 1968 by Henry "Mitch" Mitchell Havemeyer and Mary Allen Sargent Havemeyer. After spending summers on Nantucket for a decade, the Havemeyers left suburban New York to live on Nantucket full-time, where they purchased the 1846 brick building located at 54 Main Street, on the corner of Orange Street. The Havemeyers both passed away in the 1970s, but their daughter Mimi (Mary Chilton Havemeyer Beman) kept up the business until Wendy Schmidt purchased it in 2008. In April of 2012, Wendy Hudson bought the store and its inventory and founded Nantucket Book Partners, which comprises both Mitchell’s and Nantucket Bookworks.