A Mill Village Story - Andrews, Gerald Bruce
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"It is difficult to imagine a locale more quintessentially American than a Southern mill town. Congeniality, manners, friendliness, and compassion abound; white clapboard houses with black asphalt roofs and neat yards wander down from textile mills and schools. A Mill Village Story is a first-person narrative reflecting the best years of the mill villages in the Chattahoochee River Valley: West Point, Lanett, and Valley. It is a view through the eyes and mind of Gerald Andrews, a hard-scrabble kid who was born at home in a two-room house in Fairfax at the end of the Great Depression and grew…mehr

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"It is difficult to imagine a locale more quintessentially American than a Southern mill town. Congeniality, manners, friendliness, and compassion abound; white clapboard houses with black asphalt roofs and neat yards wander down from textile mills and schools. A Mill Village Story is a first-person narrative reflecting the best years of the mill villages in the Chattahoochee River Valley: West Point, Lanett, and Valley. It is a view through the eyes and mind of Gerald Andrews, a hard-scrabble kid who was born at home in a two-room house in Fairfax at the end of the Great Depression and grew up in his grandmother's boarding house. Andrews's creativity and innovative mind aided him in adventures through school, college, relationships, mill work, management, and leadership positions. What comes through most clearly in these pages is his genuine love for the people and how the culture of this nearly lost place shaped him"--
Autorenporträt
Gerald Andrews was a hardscrabble kid who grew up in a small Southern mill village, attended Auburn University and Harvard Business School, and would eventually receive over eighty-five awards for excellence in leadership and creativity over his nearly fifty-year career. Andrews served in over thirty leadership positions over thirty-nine years at West Point Stevens Inc.; was president and CEO of Johnston Industries; was CEO and chairman of Accelegrow Technologies; and was the executive-in-residence at Auburn University from 1997-1998. After residing in twenty-five distinct places over the course of his life, Andrews has finally settled in West Point, Georgia, with Claire Smith-his wife of sixty-two years-their three children, and his seven grandchildren. A Mill Village Story is his first book.