6pm Hour – bookstores leave downtown

Posted Jan 12, 2012 03:18:10 PM.

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Mike Norris has been in the book business for 32 years. His downtown store Back Pages will close it’s door. Cecil our rowdy sports fan joins us. Peter Twohig our SMU history professor stops by for a check back in this day in history. Tony Rodgers with the NS hunting and anglers federation joins us to talk about the scarce rabbit population.

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