The Millers shopped for their house for more than two years.
Every ounce of usefulness has been extracted from all the effort put into its production, from farmer to tailor, from miller to shop assistant".
A few men turned heads in their colorful chinoiserie and toile de Jouy cotton print trousers, but not since the Shep Miller men's shop on Job's Lane in Southampton introduced vibrant-color trousers and jackets as a Hamptons look in the 1940's have so many men dared to wear such colorful pants, these made by Steven Stolman's Southampton shop.
After shopping Miller around and finding few buyers, Philip Morris lowered its asking price, a prospect that has helped lure SAB back to the bargaining table.
"Clambakes have been going on for 100 years," said Eric Miller, 54, who, with his business partner, Jeffrey Hiller, owns Hampton Clambake as well as the catering company Food and Company and the Millers B.B.Q., a caterer and retail shop, both in East Hampton.
A healing dancer quilt, made in honor of children who lost a parent on Sept. 11, is spread on a window ledge at the Civic Center shop, the work of one of Ms. Miller's students, 17-year-old Dixonha Dixof of New Britain.
Peñate said SAB Miller's move into microcredit for mom and pop shops had been led by their customers' feedback.
Last year, Mr B's Emporium loved The Howling Miller by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna so much that the shop got its own limited run of 300 hardback copies published.
The chief owns a smoke shop that would benefit if Mr. Morrison's shop were shut down, and Ms. Miller has a property dispute with Mr. Morrison.
The city is notable for its bookstores, from the encyclopedic Elliott Bay Book Company to specialists like the Peter Miller shop, which sells architecture books.
