Darkness at noon.

• Position: Letter to the Editor

As a writer, I can only wish I had written such a marvelous, succinct piece about the agony of plants closing and worker displacement (Up Front, December). Even though I am a Yankee transplant and the wife of a Guilford Mills plant manager luckily long retired, I also take it personally.

Elizabeth Di Meo

Greensboro

As president of the association that has represented the textile industry for...