Personal Writing: Response To My Visit To The Boott Cotton Mill
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Before visiting the Boott Cotton Mill, I thought about what it
would look like. Everybody knows what a mill looks like, especially an old
mill. I expected a large brick building with smoke stacks outside, inside I
expected fully functional product producing facility.
When I got there I was quite ....
Middle of paper
.... I went to the entrance of the Weave Room. The most interesting
part of this exhibit was the pictures and quotations located outside the
Weave Room. Throughout the building, all the pictures with people in them,
nobody had a smile on their face. That solidified the impression I had that
people weren't happy working in the mills.
The quotations from former mill workers also exhibited their
unhappiness. Grace May Burk, a former mill worker said, “Work started at
6:30 a.m. and ended at 5: ....
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