[9thLife]

To go way, way back...Holyoke’s mills were a lot like Lowell and Lawrence. The mills made every US Army blanket used through WWII. But that was a long time ago. Holyoke is a shell of what it once was.

I'm sure. I went through Hartford a few years ago and was flabbergasted...I didn't recognize it nor feel comfortable there. Ditto Worcester: I worked there as a teen and really dug it...it was a "working man's city"...

I used to go for rides with my father; occasionally we'd go way out west. Have you heard of a town called "Old Furnace?"

[Vermont Lt]

Worcester has always been a mess. Never heard of Old Furnace, but there were plenty of foundries out here.

We still make the paper for all the US money up in the Berkshires...so they are busy.

[Vermont Lt]

Worcester has always been a mess. Never heard of Old Furnace, but there were plenty of foundries out here.

We still make the paper for all the US money up in the Berkshires...so they are busy.