Eastern Fine history presentations planned June 14 at Brewer school

To preserve the history of the century-old Eastern Fine mill, Brewer Middle School pupils, in partnership with the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine, created a 20-minute documentary titled “Mill Town – The Eastern Fine Paper Company and Brewer, Maine,” which will be presented in the middle school auditorium at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14.

The pupil-led endeavor is a Save Our History project funded by The History Channel.

A DVD created by the Folklife Center and a local photographer and funded by the Maine Humanities Council titled, “The Writing on the Wall: Stories and Pictures from the Eastern Fine Paper Mill,” also will be shown. The DVD features a map of the mill, a timeline, old photos, an audio interview with a third-generation papermaker, and more than 30 typed employee interview transcripts.

The presentation is free and open to the public, and the sponsors “welcome everyone – former employees, students, parents, family, friends, neighbors – to come and show their support for local history and the hundreds of men and women from Eastern Fine who during the last century produced some of the finest paper in the country,” Pauleena MacDougall, Folklife Center associate director, said in a press release.

For more information about the video and documentary presentations at the Brewer Middle School, call the school at 989-8640 or the Folklife Center at 581-1891.