LOVELL – What happens to towns and communities when long-term employers move on? On Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. (on Zoom), the Hobbs Speakers Series will feature Kerri Arsenault, the award-winning author of “Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains.” Born in Rumford, Arsenault is a book critic, teacher, contributing editor at Orion magazine, and currently an associate at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. She is the 2020 non-fiction winner of the Maine Literary Award and received the 2021 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.
The Portland Press Herald says, “Mill Town is a riveting account of dreams denied and assumptions betrayed, a timely and timeless portrait of working class life.” It was also one of the top ten non-fiction books “checked out the most times in 2021 through the state’s Minerva system, a consortium of more than 60 Maine libraries that share resources.”
To join this free event, visit www.hobbslibrary.org and click on the Zoom link. For a phone link or queries, contact the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library at 207-925- 3177. The Hobbs Library Speaker Series is supported in part by a generous contribution from Norway Savings Bank.