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The recent mill closings in New Hampshire’s North Country have re-focused attention on the state’s long and difficult transition to a post-industrial economy.

As towns like Groveton and Berlin struggle to adapt, millworkers – many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants - face the end of a way of life they have known for generations.

This weekend, nationally-known storyteller Jay O’Callahan brings to a Portsmouth theatre a tale that should resonate in those mill towns.

NHPR Correspondent Kevin Gardner has this preview.