Mill town : reckoning with what remains / Kerri Arsenault.
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TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250155931Subject(s): 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) -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Biographies. DDC classification: 974.1/75 LOC classification: F29.M49 | A77 2020Summary: 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.
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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.
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