NASHVILLE – Once Nashville's most booming business, May Hosiery Mill has a history that could rival Forrest Gump's tales of extraordinary encounters. The sock factory shipped 1 million socks a week ...

IN PerNine years ago, when she was 27 and unhappily selling real estate, Gina Locklear went to her parents with a proposition. She wanted to make socks. Not the basic white socks the family had ...

Inside a squat metal building on the outskirts of Fort Payne, Ala., huge spools of cheerfully colored thread hang like nursery mobiles above rows of blue knitting machines the size of office copiers.

Northfield, like many towns in Vermont, is small. Even the valley it sits in, an impression carved out over centuries by the Dog River, is small, at least in comparison to the more-famous Mad River ...