HARRODSBURG, Ky. (WDRB) — Apple is moving production of its iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and for longtime Corning employees Tommy and Danny Shirley, it’s a full-circle moment.

“My grandfather helped in the construction in 1952. My dad started in 1964, and he started when he was 18. I started when I was 18,” Tommy Shirley said. For the past 30 years, he and his brother Danny have worked at the Corning plant in Harrodsburg — following in the footsteps of their father and grandfather.

Danny Shirley recalls growing up around the plant.

“We walked over every day to talk to people that, when Dad would come out, get off work, we would walk back across the street with him and do those things," he said. "And so we always wanted to work here."

The Shirelys’ work h

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