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The popular Downtown Boone bookstore Foggy Pine Books will be closing its doors according to a Facebook post from the store.

How an endorsement from Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert saved a small bookstore TODAY 3/4/2021 Elyse Pham Before last month's Super Bowl, Foggy Pine Books was one of the thousands of small, locally owned businesses floundering amid the coronavirus pandemic. Nestled in the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, the bookstore had calculated that it needed to sell a minimum of 1,350 books per month to stay open. In January, it had sold 836. Thanks to a gift from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — along with some help from Tom Hanks — that changed in an instant. Super Bo...

feed to stay on top of the news. Lockdowns and other restrictions prompted by the coronavirus pandemic devastated small businesses across the country, causing many businesses to shut their doors for good and putting millions of people out of work.  Following the Super Bowl earlier this month, an event in which millions of dollars are pumped into single advertisements for large companies, "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert used his platform to lend the bookstore a hand.  “Big companies aren’t the ones that need our support the most right now,” Colbert said before airing an ad for th...