June 13, 2001

a way of life will vanish here

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This is a photo of Dale Frick (the letters "Da" in the name Dana's) and our guest Doug Sterkenburg, flying a kite at the Lake Superior Au Train Scenic Lookout.

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On May 13, the last of a century's cotton will be processed into yarn and trucked away, the teeth of the giant machines will gnash at workers one last time, and the roar will fade to silence, forever. 

Then, the Union Yarn Mill will move the machines to other plants in 
other towns, 197 men and women will lose their jobs, and a way of life will vanish here, with the closing of a gate. 

-Bobby Abrahamson for The New York Times,
writing about the Union Yarn Mill in Jacksonville, Alabama

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