Record #:

43847

Author(s):

Campbell, Brad

Abstract:

"A devoted son honors his mom -- and all of North Carolina's mill workers -- through the Morganton-based Workers' Legacy Project". For 33 years, Mary Warlick served as a hosiery repairer at the Garrou-Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mills. The project gives former mill workers their due, preserving their memories through oral histories. This assemblage in turn is serving as a foundation for a documentary to be released in 2024. Partnering with the project is the History Museum of Burke County. On April 16, 2023, a monument referred to as the "Dignity of Work Monument", honoring mill workers was installed in front of the museum.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 91 Issue 4, September 2023, p98-108, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mill workers--Burke County; Mill workers--monuments; Workers' Legacy Project (Burke County); Warlick, Jimmy (Burke County)