Janesville has lost businesses of all sizes over the last year, and will lose yet another: Sanford Corp. will close the old Parker Pen factory.
Over 150 jobs will be lost, and so will a business operating in Janesville since the nineteenth century.
Parker has been a part of American history, and the Parker 51 fountain pen is perhaps the finest pen ever made.
(Information on the innovative Parker 51 is available at
www.parker51.com.)
Parker pens will be manufactured elsewhere, as market conditions require, yet one sees both lost jobs, and loss of a part of our history, too.