The Beater Room Boys: Growing Up In An Adirondack Mill Town

The Beater Room Boys: Growing Up In An Adirondack Mill Town

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By Stephen Cernek

Corinth, New York, once home to International Paper’s historic Hudson River Mill, forms the backdrop for this thoughtful and often amusing memoir set in the 1960s. Centered on the experiences of a hometown boy who worked at the Mill in the summer of 1969 before leaving for college, The Beater Room Boys casts an insightful eye on the pulp and paper industry’s outsized influence on the social, economic, and environmental history of the town.

The Mill’s towering piles of pulp wood, predictable shift changes of its workers, and the energy of its Community Building provide reassuring constants in a decade marked by profound change. Written by a third-generation paper worker with a deep respect for the working men of the mill and the lives they built for themselves and their families, the 
Beater Room Boys describes work, life, and play in a small industrial town at the peak of its prosperity.

337 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 9798878439206