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To: 9thLife

To go way, way back...Holyoke’s mills were a lot like Lowell and Lawrence. The mills made every US Army blanket used through WWII. But that was a long time ago. Holyoke is a shell of what it once was.


57 posted on 12/24/2014 3:02:15 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Vermont Lt
To go way, way back...Holyoke’s mills were a lot like Lowell and Lawrence. The mills made every US Army blanket used through WWII. But that was a long time ago. Holyoke is a shell of what it once was.

I'm sure. I went through Hartford a few years ago and was flabbergasted...I didn't recognize it nor feel comfortable there. Ditto Worcester: I worked there as a teen and really dug it...it was a "working man's city"...

I used to go for rides with my father; occasionally we'd go way out west. Have you heard of a town called "Old Furnace?"

62 posted on 12/24/2014 6:18:43 PM PST by 9thLife
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