After finally being plowed out from the biggest New England snow storm in years I headed off to the general store looking to load up on supplies. Times have been tough and the last general store left is of course Wal-Mart. I loaded up but the only things made in America were rock salt and bird feed. I grew up in a New England mill town. It was a very prosperous town through the 1960s but by the 1970s the mills started shutting down and moving South. It wasn't a good time after the mills began to close. I ...