Blairstown Coffee

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A train passes by the CO-OP in Blairstown on Monday, September 10, 2007. Traci Kullmer, the owner of the Blairstown Quick Stop, was once told that a train passes through town an average of once every twenty minutes.

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Marty Kimm patches a tire in the shop at Kimm's Mini-Mart, his gas station on the north edge of Blairstown on Monday, September 10, 2007. Kimm's father opened the store in 1948.

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Marty Kimm fills a tire with air after patching it at his shop at Kimm's Mini-Mart, in Blairstown on Monday, September 10, 2007.

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Aliki Mokas laughs at a joke her husband, Nicholas, made while they worked together in their restaurant in Blairstown on Monday, September 10, 2007.

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Miss Kitty watches as Lisa Fontinel trims a peace lily at the Plant and Flower Emporium in Blairstown on Monday, September 10, 2007. Fontinel works with her mother, Barb Young, at the shop that has been in the family for over thirty years.

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Barb Young works on arrangements that will be delivered later in the day on Monday. Young's parents owned a flower farm before retiring to Blairstown.

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A tractor waits in the rain on Monday, September 10, 2007, just outside of Blairstown.