Spindle Center Tales
Publisher: Rosedog Books
Published: 2024
ISBN-13: 9798894996646
Description: Gaston County had its heyday in the 1950s and 60s; it was claimed that during that era there were over one hundred textile, or cotton, mills in Gastonia alone. The proliferation of the flight of the industry to other countries depleted that situation greatly, but in the authors youth it was a thriving area. The annual county fair, located in nearby Lowell, was entitled the Spindle Center Fair, a reference to the cylinder on spinning frames in those mills; this cylinder was known as a bobbin, or spindle. It was a time of prosperity, mills running 24/7, three shifts year-round; virtually all of them would shut down, or stand, the week of the Fourth of July. Many of the short stories in Spindle Center Tales were set in that era and location.