Roslyn offers an array of shops and eateries that are refreshingly unique in our increasingly homogenized world. There are no chain stores here and great care is taken to maintain its historical integrity. If you drive past the duck pond and the magnificently restored homes, with their great attention to detail, the beauty of the village will take you breath away.

It feels more balanced here, more humanly scaled, more concerned with connecting rather than bigger and better and more. It may be 2010 but for a little while, it's calming being able to connect with a simpler, more beautiful past in our everyday, modern world.

Roslyn is less about perfection and concrete parking lots and getting everything everyone else has. It's more about being interesting and celebrating the individual aesthete in a world of keyboards and sound bites. You don't come here to find bargains but you may find something you will cherish always and you may have the best meal, simple or elaborate, in one of the prettiest settings ever.

Excerpt by Lillian Kleinman-Litvack Anton News.