Hey, WU included a mention of the closing of the last sardine-packing plant in the US. Sure, it was just an excuse to make fun of sardines, but it was still thrilling. It was as though they were talking about my town! So exciting.
(I'm very sad about the closing of the plant, by the way. From twenty-one plants in its heyday, when it was the sardine-packing capitol of the country, over the course of a few decades Lubec went to two, then one, and finally none when Stinson closed its plant next door to me nine years ago. It was an awful blow to the town. And now there are no sardine-processing plants anywhere in Maine--or indeed the rest of the country. It's the end of a world. Sure, the jobs were badly paid and the work tedious, but it was a hell of a lot better than nothing. Which is what's here now.)
