Fitchburg

Did your dad own the store or are you guys just living above the

store? This was my mother's father's store in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

I lived in Detroit, but we would visit there during the summer.

And what he built was a major league apartment complex with about 15 units of and they had the nicest biggest unit and his furniture store was on the bottom well something happened one night where somebody threw a cigarette apparently into a mattress nobody knew that at the time in the place started smoking up not engulfed in flames but smoking up and I was sleeping on the second level it was a three-level building I was on the second level in my room My parents were on the third level with my sister, and everybody was asleep.

Okay.

So it didn't think from Denver to basically Fitchburg on the north central part of the state.

There's 26 towns that are represented.

And I would really love to be able to represent them and truly represent them.

For some reason or other, Akeley was afraid to trust a thing to an ordinary or expected transportation route.

His final idea was to take it across country to Bellows Falls and ship it on the Boston and Maine system through Keene and Wichenden and Fitchburg, even though this would necessitate his driving along somewhat lonelier and more forest-traversing hill roads than the main highway to Brattleboro.

He said he had noticed a man around the express office at Brattleboro when he had sent the phonograph record, whose actions and expression had been far from reassuring.

This man had seemed too anxious to talk with the clerks and had taken the train on which the record was shipped.

I mentioned that only as a prologue here to this story.

The old Wachusett chip plant in Fitchburg, it hasn't been Wachusett for a long time, but it's finally shutting down in December.

62 more jobs lost.

Thank you, Mara Healy.

Thank you for this great business environment you've created here.

A Fitchburg factory with roots stretching back nearly 80 years is shutting its doors for good.

Our home, that's the company that owns it now.

It's from New Jersey.

Okay? Unfortunately, none of these people have ever built anything.

People listening here, you know, in Fitchburg, we make stuff.

I make stuff.

I'm an engineer.

You'll have to read this to your kids when the time comes.

If I can, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg.

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, like Fitchburg, Mass, close to where I grew up.

Yeah, you're a Massachusetts kid.

And you live in Denver now, but I know you grew up in Massachusetts.

But Henry Hikes to Fitchburg is about two bears.

And this is a play, I think on Henry David Thoreau.

And so hence Henry hikes to Fitchburg.