In 1904, the building of a planned community began, and the Henry River Manufacturing Company started producing fine cotton yarns in 1905. In its time, Henry River Mill Village was a completely self-sustained town: it operated under its own currency, generated its own electricity, and churned its own moonshine. While the mill thrived during its operating years, the 12-hour shifts often proved backbreaking for workers. By the time the 12,000 spindles slowed to a halt in the late 1960s, many workers had hoboed out of town looking for higher wages. The mill itself burned down in 1977, but the two-story company store and many of the workers' houses remain, creating an eerie silhouette--and serving as inspiration to both artists and filmmakers.

Henry River Mill Village (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Callihan, Nicole

Keller, Ruby Young

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Henry River Mill Village

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Joseph O. Legaspi writes, "How do languages speak to each other? Through poetry, of course, and Translucence illuminates such a correspondence, an exchange, a dance. Callihan and Abdel Jaber's parallel scripts and lyrics shine beautifully side by side, over and under, voicing loss, longing, and love."

Translucence

Literature & Fiction

Abdel Jaber, Samar

Poetry

Indolent Books

Nicole Callihan's semantic debates and whimsical linguistics in This Strange Garment open the reader to more than the pain, treatment, and aftermath of breast cancer. We also get the "god in the scars." Hers is a mind of lyrical curiosity, turning life around and finding prisms. Let her show you how to "place lady slipper orchids where your flesh used to be." Let these poems pull you into a life "severed but raptured."   
-Lauren Camp, 2022-2025 New Mexico Poet Laureate

This Strange Garment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Terrapin Books

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