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July 23, 2008: The Life and Times of Stoughton Book Shop
" Mitchell estimated he had 15,000 volumes on his shelves and another 30,000 in storage. When he opened in February 2006, he hoped to specialize in rare and antiquarian books but soon began stocking contemporary fiction and children’s books to attract regular customers. Despite his store’s size, he was proud to have one of the area’s widest selections of books about the Beat Generation of the 1950s."


