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Author Andrews, Gerald B., author.

Title A mill village story / Gerald B. Andrews
Published Montgomery : NewSouth Books, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Introduction -- A southern perspective -- A & WP Railroad -- The Civil War -- In the beginning -- Alabama -- Junior -- Coca-Cola -- Early on -- Mayhayley -- Along the Chattahoochee -- Papa and Mama -- Joseph Louis Barrow -- High school -- Night watchman -- The plant janitor -- My town -- English class -- Creative change -- A cool girl -- A boy and a bike -- Sarah Jim -- Boy Scouts -- Healthcare -- Three Dr. Peppers -- The beauty contest -- Old people -- Auburn -- 6th Avenue and 48th Street -- The mama bird -- The hostile takeover -- Mill village reality -- Summing-up
Summary "It is difficult to imagine a locale more quintessentially American than a Southern mill town. Congeniality, manners, friendliness, and compassion abound; white clapboard houses with black asphalt roofs and neat yards wander down from textile mills and schools. A Mill Village Story is a first-person narrative reflecting the best years of the mill villages in the Chattahoochee River Valley: West Point, Lanett, and Valley. It is a view through the eyes and mind of Gerald Andrews, a hard-scrabble kid who was born at home in a two-room house in Fairfax at the end of the Great Depression and grew up in his grandmother's boarding house. Andrews's creativity and innovative mind aided him in adventures through school, college, relationships, mill work, management, and leadership positions. What comes through most clearly in these pages is his genuine love for the people and how the culture of this nearly lost place shaped him"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2020)
Subject Andrews, Gerald B. -- Childhood and youth
Villages -- Chattahoochee River Valley
Mills and mill-work -- Chattahoochee River Valley
Company towns -- Chattahoochee River Valley
Textile industry -- Chattahoochee River Valley -- History -- 20th century
Childhood and youth of a person
Company towns
Mills and mill-work
Textile industry
Villages
SUBJECT Chattahoochee River Valley -- Biography
Chattahoochee River Valley -- History, Local
Subject United States -- Chattahoochee River Valley
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Local history
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019980291
ISBN 9781588383884
1588383881