Spilling Grain

Comedy and tragedy: Stories from former Buffalo flour mill workers Bruce and Joel Carter


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BRUCE AND JOEL CARTER Former Buffalo flour mill workers "My father said, ‘Here’s a bottle of whiskey. Go tell that guy I need about a three-second spill.'"With a dad nicknamed Fearless Freddie who worked in and around the grain elevators throughout his life, Joel and Bruce Carter were indoctrinated into Buffalo's grain culture as kids. They both went on to work in the mill themselves, but an industrial accident in the mill sidelined their father and put an end to the family's flour milling days.
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Spilling GrainBy Kate Kaye