Tap and die set

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You're talking my language! Butterfield's plant was in a little cluster of three Canadian villages right on the Vermont border. Stanstead where my mother was teaching school when she met and later married my father. Beebe (pronounced B and another B) and Rock Island sort of blur together only the river which forms some but not all of the border. Very typical New England mill towns with dams, industry, houses, twisty roads, and steep grades. Invariably moist from the spray of the waterfalls too. The other industry in the area is granite quarries for gray dull coloured granite stones. The company presently carving my father's headstone is a bit north of Rock Island in the bucolic area of Odgen.

The company went on strike or was bought out, forget just which. The owners folded it up and moved away. Quite a shock because those were well paying high status precision industry jobs.