Here, in the Piedmont   In Gastonia the downtown’s boarded up except for Ford’s where you can still buy seeds by the ounce from Mason jars or ask for “thirty feet of cantaloupes” or “a hill of beans,”   and the antique shop with its rusty iron tables, trendy for patios, and wicker planters that […]

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