Skirting the railroad opportunity along the cotton mill wall ... Bagging shards of coal in a burlap sack , to light home fires , to warm boiled cabbage on a December night ..'Tis a blessing indeed to be filled ..
Copyright March 12 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
In 1925 my grandfather would gather coal that fell off boxcars along the rail line adjacent to the Fulton Bag Cotton Mill in Atlanta .. He was ten years old ..