Sentences with phrase «small mill town»

For lovers of books, the virtues of a library are not hard to sell, but in Riverton, New Hampshire, a small mill town that has seen better days, the books are usually the last things to bring people to the library.

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

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Most started playing professionally on one of the thousands of semi-pro clubs and company teams scattered across the country: steel mills and ice creameries offered $ 40 a month plus a job for good arms and hot bats, and every small town in the Midwest seemed to have its own amateur squad.

Along the way, Étaix satirizes the marmoreal chill of the bourgeoisie, the small - town gossip mill, and, above all, the absurd yet agonized, blundering yet callous delusions of desire.

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.

Sarah (Stiles) has moved her family to a small Colombian town to work at the paper mill her father (Stephen Rea) owns.

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.

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.

The city got its start as a mill town but its economic focus has since shifted primarily to the development of small businesses.

My small family & myself moved here June 2010 and noticed smack dab in the middle of our new small town is an abandoned feed mill closed down a few years ago.

If this bill passes, many small towns and lesser populated counties (where starving horses and puppy mills most often are) will not have the resources to pursue these types of cases.Â

We then have lunch and travel to the small town of Thaton on the Thai - Myanmar (Burmese) border stopping at an old fashion rice mill along the way.

Here we will stop and visit a rice mill then on to the quiet small town of Thaton located on the Mae Kok River for the evening.

Braddock is a small town near Pittsburgh that was once prosperous, with a steel mill that employed many people.

In the 19th century, many silk mills (called Filanda in Italian) were active in town, and in the whole region in general; smaller ones were mostly annexed to farms, as in the case of the Pedroni silk mill.

Murillo grew up in La Paila, a small town in Colombia where his family worked in sugar - cane mills.

Murillo was born in La Paila, Colombia — a small town where his family worked in sugar - cane mills.

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.