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The paved drive turns off Colbert Road--its surface unblemished by any cracks, its curbs as pale and pristine as the day a hot Florida sun dried the cement. Elaborate landscaping--albeit somewhat overgrown--frames the entrance to a short bridge embellished with decorative siderails designed to resemble hand-forged wrought-iron latticework. Crossing over the drainage culvert leads to...nothing.
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Millen, Georgia feels like a community on life support. Shuttered storefronts line Cotton Avenue. Signs of commerce appear elusive. Even the dust blows around in swirls as if it has nowhere to go.
"Way things are going, I believe it'll be a ghost town before long," Billie Nunnelee tells me from her perch behind the ice cream counter at K & K Antiques and Old Fashioned Soda Shop.
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Deb Shelton can almost track the ebb and flow of the recession's impact on Franklin, KY by the shifting content of classified advertisements she manages for her local newspaper. Sitting at her desk in the editorial offices of The Franklin Favorite, she flips through paper-clipped stacks of notecards she has kept for the past few years, each one documenting how many ads and of what type she had in a given week.
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"I did not want to go to the unemployment office to get money that way. My pride had a lot to do with it. Going to the unemployment office would have been like rock bottom for me," Kenneth Gregg explains. "I was getting close, but instead I chose to move away and keep looking for work."
The paved drive turns off Colbert Road--its surface unblemished by any cracks, its curbs as pale and pristine as the day a hot Florida sun dried the cement. Elaborate landscaping--albeit somewhat overgrown--frames the entrance to a short bridge embellished with decorative siderails designed to resemble hand-forged wrought-iron latticework. Crossing over the drainage culvert leads to...nothing. Read More
Millen, Georgia feels like a community on life support. Shuttered storefronts line Cotton Avenue. Signs of commerce appear elusive. Even the dust blows around in swirls as if it has nowhere to go. "Way things are going, I believe it'll be a ghost town before long," Billie Nunnelee tells me from her perch behind the ice cream counter at K & K Antiques and Old Fashioned Soda Shop.
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Deb Shelton can almost track the ebb and flow of the recession's impact on Franklin, KY by the shifting content of classified advertisements she manages for her local newspaper. Sitting at her desk in the editorial offices of The Franklin Favorite, she flips through paper-clipped stacks of notecards she has kept for the past few years, each one documenting how many ads and of what type she had in a given week.
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