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To the Editor,
They came up the river from Clarksburg, down home.
Decided to build a factory.
Holiday's Cove they called home.
J.C. Williams and E.T. Weir, they had a steel mentality. Men made of steel.
Fourteen thousand they employed.
Millsop gained fame; first mayor we all enjoyed.
Hamill's football teams a household name.
James Ware the same.
Joe Hill wasn't far behind.
Starvaggi buses stopped on every corner.
Churches just around the bend.
Monsignor Murphy,old St. Paul's.
Millsop Community Center. Dave Frew and Torchio gained fame.
Heading into the twenties, the script has changed.
Cliffs' blue hue engulfs the city.
Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. Naw, says Xi Jinping. Just a Chinese weather balloon.
Steve Kopa
Weirton