The Most They Ever Had

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In the spring of 2001, a community of people within the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Around the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it gave the impression a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had develop into almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the most efficient payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, more.
 
The mill was once here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and the mill workers served it at the same time as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity within the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no person had to ship their bodies home on a train. This can be a mill story—not of bricks, steel, and cotton, but of the individuals who suffered it to live.

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