Peggy Seeger - Aragon Mill

9. Aragon Mill (Peggy Seeger): While I was working with the UMWA on the Brookside Strike in Eastern Kentucky, I was living in the North Georgia Mountains. That made me the closest union organizer to the town of Aragon, where the company had suddenly closed the mill, throwing 700 people out of work. So the Textile Workers Union of America asked me to go there to see if anything could be done. Sitting on his front porch, one of the workers, who had complained for years about the noise from the mill, told me, “Now that they’ve shut the mill down, it’s so quiet I can’t sleep.”