Sentences with phrase «mill town»

Then stop in a former sugar mill town and meet with the town's present - day inhabitants.

Unlike some, I actually live in the sort of rural south — in a failed mill town where the average annual family income is barely above the poverty level.

The T - U board reminds me of the residents of an old paper mill town.

Either way, what's done is done, but there's a huge part of me that truly wonders what those little farm and mill towns felt like to visit.

I've stumbled across a mobile home park lead in a small steel mill town in PA and I may have a motivated seller on the hook.

The steel mill town of Braddock, Pennsylvania was once thriving, but is now on life support... just like the father of Rodney and Russell Baze.

The artist's hometown of Braddock, a forgotten steel mill town in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is marked by a geography of postindustrial degradation.

Tarawera High School is located in the small mill town of Kawerau, an area recognised as one of New Zealand's poorest communities.

Roy J. McDonald, who represents former mill towns like Troy and Mechanicville, didn't see much percentage in reminiscing about his vote, either.

When I was a younger education reporter in the old mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the big day came when the state released scores on its school accountability tests.

It, too, began with a journey: this one when we were just twenty - one, to interview for teaching jobs in the remote mill town of Orleans, in the northern Green Mountains just south of the Canadian border, where we planned to teach for a year or two, save some money, and then move on to graduate school.

She also promised to bring back jobs to the once - thriving mill town and other struggling cities in New York.

Travel 140 kilometres (87 miles) to the former lumber milling town of Walpole and have a coffee at Four Sisters Coffee Shop before you visit the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, a 40 metre (131 foot) high walkway through the forest's canopy designed to move — which is fun or scary, depending on your perspective — with the majestic red - barked tingle eucalyptus trees that are found nowhere else in the world.

Situated on the banks of the Spokane River and surrounded by majestic mountains and vibrant evergreen forests of ponderosa pine trees, the town of Post Falls, Idaho is an authentic mill town with spectacular natural beauty and a rich heritage.

Update April 28, 2011: Several dozen people came to the Pennsylvania mill town of Monessen yesterday to protest a harsh anti-cat ordinance that so far has meant the deaths of nearly 3 dozen cats, simply for being outside.

The American Civil War stopped the free flow of raw cotton to Britain causing a desperate Cotton Famine in the northern mill towns.

In the late 1990s the forgotten mill town of North Adams became a haven for technology companies and was infused with new life.

The company will remake the retirement community into a pastoral mill town, complete with a spinning water wheel and old - time windmill, and carry the aesthetic throughout the development.

your site looks awesome — impressive gluten - free magic there:) i love mill town — the beer, the atmosphere, everything!

An industrial community fighting off the ravages of a humid Midwest summer with cold beer and insect repellent (in that order), Monroe is a paper - mill town halfway between Detroit and Toledo, with a blue collar for each of its shady old elms and saloons sufficient to match the well - kept homes.

In the statement, Morse touted the economic development efforts in the old mill town outside of Albany.

The Labour vote in Matlock is traditional WWC, the remnants of the old mill town vote, plus a bit of council housing.

Until its positive identification in 2003, it was known as Bradfordcoccus and falsely suspected as the cause of a 1992 pneumonia outbreak in the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford, England.

In one recent case, 179 residents (or their survivors) of the old uranium milling town of Uravan, Colo., sued mill owner and operator Union Carbide Corporation for causing various cancers and other illnesses.

The stove reminded me of one my Dad's Mom had in their house in little mill town in PA many many years ago.

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Once somewhat of a run down run of the mill mill town, Leeds has seen a real come back in the last ten to fifteen years, with a massive regeneration project seeing an expansion of the city and a transformation not only of industrial life but also social life.

Directors / writers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators of «The Office» and «Extras,» jump to the big screen with a comic drama of three best friends facing dead - end lives in a small British mill town in the seventies.

Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) sets his film in a decaying mill town in Pennsylvania whose frame houses haven't been remodeled and painted since the»70s.

The idea for the quilt started during a class trip to a quilting show in Lowell, Mass., a former mill town about 30 miles north of Cambridge.

Settled before 1700 as part of Dover, Somersworth was an early mill town.

Like other communities with high rates of poverty, significant numbers of non-English speaking students and relatively high numbers of students who need special education skills, standardized test scores in the old eastern Connecticut mill town were low.

But without its once - prosperous furniture factory, which reopened a couple of times in my early boyhood only to shut down a few months later, Chichester was just another dying upstate mill town.

Besides, it seemed a very French thing to do, taking into consideration the novel takes place in northern Rhode Island's fictitious French - Canadian mill town of Beauchemins.

Finally his family discovers him in a remote Louisiana mill town, promptly buys the property, and puts Randolph in charge of this place unlike any he has ever seen, where men are surrounded by cypress swamps and menace, leading lives of ceaseless, backbreaking toil punctuated only by the brutal entertainments provided by the Sicilians who control the whiskey and card games and girls, and by the rough justice meted out by the still - tormented Byron.

The town in which she grew up, Apollo, Pennsylvania, was a small, nondescript sort of place, not much different from countless other mill towns carved out of hemlock and spruce, unassuming enough that even the author of a history of Apollo felt obliged to explain in the book's foreword, «It is not necessary to be a city of the first class to fill the niche in the hearts of the people or the history of the state.

Gabriel Lightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern England mill town, making good in London.

It's set in the small New England town in which we grew up together, a run - down port town in our time and before, a factory and mill town peopled by hard - working immigrants.

She's grown used to the cold now which is just as well, since these days she lives in an old Victorian mill town in the north of England, right next door to the windswept Yorkshire moors.

Surfboards — sticking out of the beds of pick - ups, poking up from the backseats of convertibles, strapped to the tops of vans — are the first clue that you've arrived in Hale`iwa, an old sugar mill town turned funky mecca for big wave disciples.

The cottages are just 12 kilometres from the historically rich timber mill town of Nannup, known for its timber craftsmen, quaint shops, antiques and the newly opened Mythic Maze with its Tearooms and Gallery.

Spectators can follow the artists as they set up their easels around Ellicott City's historic district and paint the picturesque mill town and join us for the exciting «quick draw» event.

In an interview, Mr. Krens, one of the forces behind the development of Mass MoCA beginning in the late 1980s, said that the museum had helped heal the economic wounds of North Adams, a faded mill town, but that it had not «quite been the economic driver that it could be.»

North Adams, a former industrial center and mill town tucked away in the Berkshires, is home to painting, photography, pop - up performances and one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world MASS MoCA.

Mass MoCA has always been about the vast and the outlandish, an unlikely arts mecca in a tired mill town that has also become an unlikely but very real success.

As the saws went silent, many small mill towns withered.

Their Andover office is housed in a historic Andover Building, which was originally part of Shawsheen Village, a model mill town created in the early 1920s by William M. Wood.

That said, Townie, Andre Dubus III's memoir about a hard life in a poor Massachusetts mill town is one of my favorite books I've read in 2011 — full stop, novels included.

As an artist born and raised from a steel mill town with a working - class, impoverished background, it is important for me to stand in the gap between working - class and creative - class people.