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Person Place Thing Featuring Author Annie Proulx

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Tonight on Person Place Thing, Some scholars toil away their lives, humbly adding to the supply of human knowledge. Then there is Sarah Barkham. “She was responsible for finding out something about Newfoundland that nobody had ever known,” says Annie Proulx. Cohen speaks with Proulx, author of “The Shipping News” and “Brokeback Mountain.” Proulx tells the story of an extraordinary scholar.

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