Under the Hollywood Spotlight, a Fading Welsh Town is Reborn
Briefly

WREXHAM, Wales In the Welsh language, the virtually untranslatable word hiraeth" (pronounced here-ayeth) describes a blend of nostalgia and longing for a time that can never be recreated.For Wrexham, a working-class town in northern Wales, it was a feeling that came to define a postindustrial malaise that descended in the 1980s as the last remaining coal mines shuttered their rickety gates and, later, the furnaces at the nearby steelworks ran cold.
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