When communities face economic transitions, such as the closure of a paper mill, residents often return to their hometowns seeking meaning and identity, as the loss of industry forces communities to reimagine their collective identity, labor, land, and relationships at a moment of profound change.
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Funny how you come back to these places that some of you most pain it's like you come back searching for something you know I was born in these hills the same as my daddy and in these hills I laid his bones to rest. I work hard every day. I give one and 10 to Jesus.
I don't know where I'm going. It don't mean I lost my way.
Run, run, old paper town. Run on paper mill. When that steam machine stops pumping, there's going to be some time to kill. When the smoke stacks stop and the gates are locked, there's going to be some time to kill.
Roll on Pigeon River. Roll on to Tennessee.
You might be sweet, but you ain't seen me yet.
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