TY - BOOK AU - Arsenault,Kerri TI - Mill town: reckoning with what remains SN - 9781250155931 AV - F29.M49 A77 2020 U1 - 974.1/75 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - Arsenault, Kerri KW - Rumford Mill KW - Working class KW - Maine KW - Mexico (Town) KW - Biography KW - Paper industry KW - Environmental aspects KW - Oxford County KW - Health aspects KW - Pollution KW - Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) KW - Anecdotes KW - Mexico (Me. : Town) KW - Social life and customs KW - Rumford (Me.) KW - Environmental conditions KW - Mexico (Me. :Town) KW - Autobiographies. KW - lcgft KW - Biographies. N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 ER -