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If i had to go back there, now, i don't believe in drugs, i don't have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? standing on the corner, i probably would get into a business. what's a good business? well-paying business? i'm sorry. that's where we are. ♪ >> yes, it used to be a very different world towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, bor...

Scranton and went to work very young in a silk mill. >> so in the second one she mentioned only one grandparent. that's because the things she said today about all my grandparents was, of course instantly fact checked and it turns out, well three of them were born here and only one of them arrived as an immigrant which is what these early days in iowa are for, getting those kinds of wrinkles straightened out. isn't that what it's about, e.j.? >> first of all, everything comes back to scranton. if joe biden runs he's from scranton. pennsylvania is always at the center of things. yeah the way we...

>> i want to play something she said today about her grandparents. let's listen to this. >> there are a lot of immigrant stories. you know, all my grant parents, you know, came over here and, you know, my grandfather went to work in a lace mill in scranton, pennsylvania, and worked there until he retired at 65. he started when he was a teenager and just kept going. my grandmother on my father's side, she immigrated with her family as a young girl to scranton and went to work very young in a silk mill. >> so in the second one she mentioned only one grandparent. that's because the things she sai...

My father was an employee of the mill, as was my grandfather. >> during the hay day, there were three paper mills, cotton mill, a silk mill, a foundry, a beehive of activity here. >> back then, a company town like this, the company actually took care of you. they built and provided homes for their employees. schools, the river provided energy. the company provided nearly everything else. >> the hayday is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the town just kind of died during the '80s. >> when the folks came to work, they were immigrants -- >> attracted by the manufacturing here....

If i had to go back there, now, i don't believe in drugs, i don't have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. what's a good business? well-paying business? i'm sorry. that's where we are. ♪ >> yes, it used to be a very different world towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, born i...