Courtesy: William Edwards/AFP/Getty Images) My father was a 45-year veteran employee of the tire and rubber product manufacturing giant Uniroyal, Incorporated.
In 1979, my family returned home to Naugatuck, Connecticut — also the company’s home base. We had finished a three-year assignment in Rome, where my father led the company’s Italian operations.
When I asked if we could stop at the Rubber Shop, where we always bought Keds sneakers made in the town’s factories, my mother’s eyes met mine. “The store shut down,” she said, “and the factories are leaving too.”I was only 14, but I knew that people depended on […]
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