Arsenault, Kerri,
Mill town : reckoning with what remains / Kerri Arsenault. - First edition. - x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople. Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports, talking to family and neighbors, and examining her own childhood to present a portrait of a community that illuminates not only the ruin of her hometown and the collapse of the working-class of America.
9781250155931
2020019303
Arsenault, Kerri--Family.
Rumford Mill.
Working class--Maine--Mexico (Town)--Biography.
Paper industry--Environmental aspects--Maine--Oxford County.
Paper industry--Health aspects--Maine--Oxford County.
Pollution--Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.)--Anecdotes.
Mexico (Me. : Town)--Biography.
Mexico (Me. : Town)--Social life and customs.
Rumford (Me.)--Biography.
Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.)--Environmental conditions.
Rumford (Me.)--Biography.
Mexico (Me. :Town)--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
F29.M49 / A77 2020
974.1/75
Mill town : reckoning with what remains / Kerri Arsenault. - First edition. - x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople. Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports, talking to family and neighbors, and examining her own childhood to present a portrait of a community that illuminates not only the ruin of her hometown and the collapse of the working-class of America.
9781250155931
2020019303
Arsenault, Kerri--Family.
Rumford Mill.
Working class--Maine--Mexico (Town)--Biography.
Paper industry--Environmental aspects--Maine--Oxford County.
Paper industry--Health aspects--Maine--Oxford County.
Pollution--Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.)--Anecdotes.
Mexico (Me. : Town)--Biography.
Mexico (Me. : Town)--Social life and customs.
Rumford (Me.)--Biography.
Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.)--Environmental conditions.
Rumford (Me.)--Biography.
Mexico (Me. :Town)--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
F29.M49 / A77 2020
974.1/75