The Resource Mill town : reckoning with what remains, Kerri Arsenault
Mill town : reckoning with what remains, Kerri Arsenault
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The item Mill town : reckoning with what remains, Kerri Arsenault represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Georgetown Peabody Library.
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- Summary
- "A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? 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, including three generations of Arsenault's own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for that seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town's economic, moral, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname "Cancer Valley." In Mill Town, Arsenault undertakes an excavation of a collective past, sifting 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, but also the hazards of both living in and leaving home, and the silences we are all afraid to violate. In exquisite prose, Arsenault explores the corruption of bodies: the human body, bodies of water, and governmental bodies, and what it's like to come from a place you love but doesn't always love you back"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 354 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250155931
- Label
- Mill town : reckoning with what remains
- Title
- Mill town
- Title remainder
- reckoning with what remains
- Statement of responsibility
- Kerri Arsenault
- Subject
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- Mexico (Me. : Town) -- Biography
- Mexico (Me. : Town) -- Social life and customs
- Paper industry -- Environmental aspects -- Maine | Oxford County
- Paper industry -- Health aspects -- Maine | Oxford County
- Pollution -- Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) -- Anecdotes
- Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) -- Environmental conditions
- Rumford Mill
- Working class -- Maine | Mexico (Town) -- Biography
- Rumford (Me.) -- Biography
- Arsenault, Kerri -- Family
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? 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, including three generations of Arsenault's own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for that seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town's economic, moral, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname "Cancer Valley." In Mill Town, Arsenault undertakes an excavation of a collective past, sifting 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, but also the hazards of both living in and leaving home, and the silences we are all afraid to violate. In exquisite prose, Arsenault explores the corruption of bodies: the human body, bodies of water, and governmental bodies, and what it's like to come from a place you love but doesn't always love you back"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Arsenault, Kerri
- Dewey number
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- 974.1/75
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F29.M49
- LC item number
- A77 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Arsenault, Kerri
- Working class
- Mexico (Me. : Town)
- Mexico (Me. : Town)
- Rumford Mill
- Rumford (Me.)
- Paper industry
- Paper industry
- Pollution
- Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.)
- Label
- Mill town : reckoning with what remains, Kerri Arsenault
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-354)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1190590775
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 354 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250155931
- Lccn
- 2020019303
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1190590775
- Label
- Mill town : reckoning with what remains, Kerri Arsenault
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-354)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1190590775
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 354 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250155931
- Lccn
- 2020019303
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1190590775
Subject
- Mexico (Me. : Town) -- Biography
- Mexico (Me. : Town) -- Social life and customs
- Paper industry -- Environmental aspects -- Maine | Oxford County
- Paper industry -- Health aspects -- Maine | Oxford County
- Pollution -- Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) -- Anecdotes
- Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) -- Environmental conditions
- Rumford Mill
- Working class -- Maine | Mexico (Town) -- Biography
- Rumford (Me.) -- Biography
- Arsenault, Kerri -- Family
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