Fall River no stranger to 'hard times'
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Former Providence Journal reporter Dan Barry was in Fall River recently, where he found a city "all too familiar with hard times" that is being battered anew by the recession. "Once a textile manufacturing capital, the city has spent most of the last century trying to adapt, as the industry moved away, as fires burned the downtown, as revitalization plans remained only plans," Barry reported in The New York Times. "Its motto, 'We'll Try,' sounds almost apologetic." Among the misfortunes mentioned in the story is the 2007 closure of Quaker Fabric Corp., where 900 people worked, many for decades. 
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