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January 5, 2025

Baldwin’s Book Barn is a literary gem bursting with used books, and maybe a few ghosts

By MIKE NEWALL The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Seven days a week, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, Carol Rauch works among the books and ghosts in a cavernous, centuries-old barn in West Chester.

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