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When You’re Smiling: Part 3 (The Finale)

By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor

This was originally intended as a two-part feature matching happy Sandpoint citizens with upbeat songs from aged vinyl records. However, after a mob of Reader

When You’re Smiling: Part 1

By Tim Henney
Reader Contriabutor

It’s difficult to describe how powerful several bulging bookcases of vinyl, long-play records have been in shaping my life.

A 1956 Cal-Berkeley co-ed has been …

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