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...These foundations are a wonder to behold," says George Trentz wistfully as he stands before a row of crumbling concrete walls, virtually all that remains of the former Kaiser Steel Corp.'s mill in this town, an hour's drive east of Los Angeles. The plant, once 20 stories high and 100 yds. long, has been reduced to a ruin, and as workers with acetylene torches continue their cutting, Trentz watches the factory where he worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just...
Luxury was scarce in William John Neeson's early life. He grew up in the mill town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. A strapping lad, he was a youthful boxing champion. "I thought I wanted to be professional. But I realized I didn't have the killer instinct." Soon he was driving a forklift at the Guinness brewery in Belfast by day, and at night filling the Lyric Theatre stage with roles like that of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred...
...Lowell they call it the Acre. Less than one-seventh of the current 105,000 citizens of this Massachusetts mill town call it home. But tens of thousands of working-class immigrants going back a century and a half before them have left marks as vivid as the archaeological artifacts uncovered in successive layers of limestone. In few places are the textures and tensions of ethnic urban history as legible as they are here...
Francis Cabot Lowell built the country's first water-powered cotton mill on farmland near Pawtucket Falls in northeastern Massachusetts in 1814. Within two decades the area had become one of the foremost industrial centers in America. As more mills were built, their owners recruited young, single New England farm girls as laborers. When the "mill girls," as they were called, rebelled against the long hours and low wages, they were replaced by Irishmen fleeing the potato famine of the 1840s. In a scheme to rid downtown Lowell of the unwanted Irish workers, the Yankee mill owners donated an acre...
...child, his neighbors were predominantly Irish and French Canadian. Now a Cambodian family lives on one side of his turquoise-shingled house, a Lebanese family on the other. His father, who spoke only a few words of English, worked for three decades as a spinner in the Merrimack textile mill. Poulios, a city mailman for 34 years, has served six years on the city council. Today he is Lowell's mayor. "The Acre is the bottom of the social ladder," he says. "The last group that comes in is always on the bottom rung. But you can climb that ladder...