Mills and Factories Connecticut River Valley
b'Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Holyoke - countless towns down the Connecticut River Valley were not long ago teeming with mills and factories that employed thousands of people. Yet so many of them are closed now that owners can make higher profits where wages are lower. What happened to the people who worked there, and how has their upsurge and departure been an important factor in the issues we see in town today?'