Mary Brown Mary Brown grew up in Port Townsend, Washington, about two hours from Seattle on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. She visited Seattle regularly during the 1980s and 1990s and graduated from the University of Washington in 2001. Mary currently lies in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the home of two used bookstores and Moravian Book Shop, said to be the oldest bookstore in America and among the oldest in the world. Read More Read Less