Mill Town : Reckoning with What Remains (CD-Audio)

from muddyboy

Mill Town is a combination history of a small rural town in Maine coupled with a testament to the author's father. For over one hundred years virtually everything there revolves around a paper manufacturing plant where her dad worked. It is a hate/love relationship as the town is dependent on it ...

from jonerthon

This was an interesting and original contribution to recent works on rural America. The author grew up in (and eventually left, after a couple of young adult post-college returns) the eponymous setting of Mexico, Maine, a remote small town that was built around and whose economy still depends on ...

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I only finished this book because it was a gift. At first it seemed to be about how a paper mill caused widespread cancer in a rural Maine town, but it soon became clear that the only theme tying the story together was dullness. Arsenault jumps from topic to topic and then makes it worse by dumpi...

from froxgirl

Throw away Hillbilly Elergy and pick up this amazing recounting of life and overwhelming death in Mexico and Rumford, Maine, home to a massive paper plant that actively employed and killed many of its residents. The author blends her love of her childhood home with her research on dioxin and othe...