Word: mille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muskie's political career has been somewhat improbable. In accent and countenance, the New Englander might be mistaken for a cousin of Leverett Saltonstall. In fact, he is a Roman Catholic whose father anglicized the family name from Marciszewski. Muskie, second of six children, grew up in the textile-mill town of Rumford, earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Maine's Bates College and a law degree from Cornell in 1939. After Navy service in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II, he returned to Maine to set up law practice in Waterville and began his political career...
...most Americans, mills spell work, dirt and drudgery. Eager to preserve the charming houses and churches of colonial times, they have seemed downright anxious to destroy their industrial heritage. "Unfortunately, the industrialist who was made by the mills is the guy who cares the least about them now," says Pierson, who was active in efforts to preserve the mill. "All he's worried about is how to make a profit. And the biggest obstacles to preservation are the elected town officers, from the mayor on down. They are tough, pragmatic and just don't care about conserving...
Manchester's Urban Renewal Director Gary P. Davis puts it more bluntly: "Monuments just don't pay." Davis insists that parking facilities are essential for the 80 businesses that today occupy space in the mill's buildings. He is backed up almost 100% by Manchesterites, who are still bitter about the abrupt liquidation of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. in 1936, which threw some 11,000 of the town's millhands out of work...
...River. Just back from England, and impressed with the opportunities in the textile industry, he instead put his fortune into building a canal linking the Merrimack with Boston. He boasted: "Here, at my canal, will be a manufacturing town that shall be the Manchester of America." The small cotton mill he started did indeed grow to house the largest textile mill in the world, and after his death Derryfield was renamed Manchester...
...Many Owners. Last year the Smithsonian Institution sent in experts to photograph and measure the buildings for its archaeological memory book. "Unfortunately," says Curator Robert Vogel, "the Smithsonian can offer nothing but sympathy. The mill has too many owners, and it would take an enormous amount of money to save it." Even old mill hands express little nostalgia at Amoskeag's passing. Mrs. Bertha Halde, 84, has fond memories of her girlhood days as a weaver of gingham, but she says of the destruction plan: "That's progress. The buildings are no good anyway, are they? They...