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Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University
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|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
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|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
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After her divorce, Betty Gorin married Gordon E. Smith (born ca. 1928), an instructor in the English as a Second Language program at Campbellsville University,<ref name=awards/> and hence acquired her hyphenated name. Gordon Smith edited his wife's book on General Morgan, which is considered exceptionally well-researched.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming!|publisher=Harmony House Publishers|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>
After her divorce, Betty Gorin married Gordon E. Smith (born ca. 1928), an instructor in the English as a Second Language program at Campbellsville University,<ref name=awards/> and hence acquired her hyphenated name. Gordon Smith edited his wife's book on General Morgan, which is considered exceptionally well-researched.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming!|publisher=Harmony House Publishers|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>
==Morgan Is Coming!==
==''Morgan Is Coming!''==
On July 4, 1863, the day that the Confederates surrendered at Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]], and marched south in defeat from [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], another battle occurred beyond the line separating Taylor and Adair counties. This battle of Tebbs Bend launched General Morgan's Great Raid into Indiana and Ohio.<ref name=tebbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=11137|title=Confederate troops marched across Tutt Street when it was just a path|date=May 25, 2004|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>
On July 4, 1863, the day that the Confederates surrendered at Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]], and marched south in defeat from [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], another battle occurred beyond the line separating Taylor and Adair counties. This battle of Tebbs Bend launched General Morgan's Great Raid into Indiana and Ohio.<ref name=tebbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=11137|title=Confederate troops marched across Tutt Street when it was just a path|date=May 25, 2004|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>
Gorin-Smith is the founder of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield Association<ref name=histawards/>
Gorin-Smith is the founder of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield Association<ref name=histawards/>
==Campbellsville's "Factory"==
==Campbellsville's "Factory"==
Gorin-Smith studied the impact of the Fruit of the Loom plant on Taylor County during the years from 1952 until layoffs began in 1997, and the plant closed at the end of 1998. With overtime compensation, some factory workers made more money than schoolteachers, according to Gorin-Smith. "The Factory, as the townspeople called the company, earlier seemed the ticket to economic stability in Campbellsville. A victim of [[globalization]], the plant nevertheless shut down and moved to [[Latin America]], but [[Amazon.com]] moved into the community to replace some of the lost jobs. Not long afterward, another mainstay of the local economy, the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company closed its Campbellsville factory. Gorin-Smith observed that in the rural area surrounding Campbellsville "there are a lot of brick houses. I call those 'Fruit of the Loom' houses or 'Factory' houses. The men farmed, and the women worked at the factory. Factory money built those houses, not farm money."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/kentucky.html?page=0%2C1|author=Charles Fishman |title=Same Place, Different World |date=June 30, 2000|publisher=fastcompany.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>
Gorin-Smith studied the impact of the Fruit of the Loom plant on Taylor County during the years from 1952 until layoffs began in 1997, and the plant closed at the end of 1998. With overtime compensation, some factory workers made more money than schoolteachers, according to Gorin-Smith. "The Factory, as the townspeople called the company, earlier seemed the ticket to economic stability in Campbellsville. A victim of [[globalization]], the plant nevertheless shut down and moved to [[Latin America]], but [[Amazon.com]] moved into the community to replace some of the lost jobs. Not long afterward, another mainstay of the local economy, the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company closed its Campbellsville factory. Gorin-Smith observed that in the rural area surrounding Campbellsville "there are a lot of brick houses. I call those 'Fruit of the Loom' houses or 'Factory' houses. The men farmed, and the women worked at the factory. Factory money built those houses, not farm money."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/kentucky.html?page=0%2C1|author=Charles Fishman |title=Same Place, Different World |date=June 30, 2000|publisher=fastcompany.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref>