We need shoes

[Gettmore]

 

[Gary Morgan]

The city I grew up in, Brockton, Mass., was a famous shoe manufacturing city. According to our history teachers, the local elite made scads of money by supplying shoes to the Union troops. They also said that to make even more money, the quality of the soles was like a high-grade cardboard, and so the shoes did not hold up terribly well in the field.