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...appears inevitable that by the end of summer, the mine will close and the last 120 miners will lose their jobs. It will be the latest in a series of hard-luck hits for the area, which lost 30 or 40 businesses, its only hospital and the CSX railroad when the Black Fork River flooded in 1985. Another flood in early 1996 provided sufficient excuse for a shoe plant employing 135 to close down and move abroad. That makes a small charcoal plant with 150 workers the largest single employer in Tucker County, where many of the miners reside. Beyond...
...peace and relative prosperity Americans are enjoying has made them less fearful of economic change. Gene Wilson, who has been a Chrysler dealer in Flora, Ill. (pop. 5,400), for 50 years, says he has become convinced of the underlying resilience of local economies. "When we lost the railroad depot years ago, we thought we were done for, but then we had an oil boom. When that ended, we thought we were done for, but then a shoe factory came. Then that closed, but we had companies like Minwax, Haliburton, Sparton horns and a German company, Hella, that makes relay...
Buffalo will be grazing on the high grass of the Wichita Mountains when Vetter's vans roll in. The herds had been exterminated from this homeland, but were re-established in October 1907, when the Federal Government shipped some buffalo in on railroad cars from the Bronx Zoo. For centuries, Native Americans went to the Wichita Mountains on vision quests. The campers who join Vetter will understand...
Children who take tours of the landmark walk upon the building's original 19th-century floor planks and enjoy puppet shows with three-feet puppets portraying escaped slaves Harriet Tubman and Lewis Hayden, all recreating the Underground Railroad...
Panel member Carolyn Curiel, senior speech writer and special assistant to President Clinton, teared up when she recalled the labors of her grandparents in eking out a living in the railroad construction sites of Kansas. She emphasized the need to help the next generation...