Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swoops in time onto the Golden River, and dodging its shining beauty, now right, now left, one comes after a hundred miles of lake, hill, and mountain, in the Old Bay State. Then at the foot of high Mt. Everett one takes a solemn decision: left is sweet, old Sheffield; but pass it stolidly by and slip gently right into tiny South Egremont which always sleeps. Then wheel right again and come to the Egremont Plain and the House of the Black Burghardts...
...idle boast, but now David Renwick, 32, is anything but idle. An artsy-craftsy Englishman who set up shop near Sheffield four years ago to practice the dying art of hand-forging iron, he whimsically wrote to an American pal: "I can make anything from lamps to chastity belts." The pal promptly responded with an order for a hand-forged chastity belt from an anonymous Texan. Well, why not? Renwick found a design in a public library, forged a replica-and immediately received orders for 40 more...
...count at week's end showed that Labor dropped 1,282 borough council seats, while the Conservatives gained 1,295. Steelmaking Sheffield, for 40 years a Labor fief, fell to the Tories; so did Norwich, after 35 years of Labor rule. London went solidly Conservative as Labor lost 16 boroughs, holding on to a mere four...
Foundations have so far given D & S well over $1 million, and money for R & R is waiting in the wings. About $300,000 went for the abandoned Sheffield Farms dairy in the heart of the community; once renovated--at a cost that may run as high as $750,000-it will be used as headquarters for both corporations, a job training center, and whatever other services seem like a good idea...
Remodeling the dairy is in itself the sort of thing the program is all about: providing jobs. Although D & S is weeks away from parcelling out contracts for Sheffield Farms, the assumption by men heavily involved in the project is that virtually all of the work will be done by people from the community...