Tin Mountain welcomes Milltown author Kerri Arsenault
May 06, 2021ALBANY On Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m., Tin Mountain Conservation Center s Author Series, welcomes Kerri Arsenault, author of award winning Milltown: Reckoning with What Remains.
Arsenault was born and raised in the rural town of Mexico, Maine. Mexico, like many other towns that grew up on the banks of rivers, revolved around a mill. In this case it was a paper mill. The mill provided jobs for many people in town and those that didn t work in the mill, worked in the businesses that came to support those that worked in the mills the grocery store, furniture store, doctors, dentists and yes, even the funeral director. Playgrounds, churches, local parks and more benefitted from the generosity of the mill and some bear the name of the mill founder. A marble bust of the mill founder, Hugh J Chisholm sits in the lobby of the town hall. What we come to learn through the pages of Milltown, is that the very mill t
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