Flipping out.

• Author: Hines, Sonny
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

Your Up Front ("Got Them Fry-Grill Blues") in the April issue hit me smack-dab between the eyes. I grew up in Roanoke Rapids in the 1940s, when it was a major cottonmill town, and those lyrics by Dorsey Dixon were on target. I never worked in any of the mills, but back then you could just walk by one and the sound of the "looms a-slamming and shuttles bouncing" reverberated everywhere. But more to the point, I now work in Hickory, and as you know, employment in...