Harrodsburg, Kentucky is sort of your quintessential small American town. It has the classic main street with businesses in tall brick buildings lined with flags. There’s even a diner where you can still sit at the counter and the waitress calls you “honey” while slinging hash brown casserole.

At the Olde Bus Station diner, all the local chatter surrounded a big national announcement from the White House, over 500 miles away.

Earlier this month, Apple’s CEO revealed that he would task Harrodsburg’s local Corning glass factory with making all of the glass for the company’s smart phones and watches.

The local Corning factory opened in the 1950s and has long been the company’s center for special glass used in digital technology. The factory always produced some of it, but in recent years,

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