Join us on Wednesday, October 9 at 7 pm in the John F. Chick Room for a 1 Book 1 Valley event!
The Metropolis of Northern New Hampshire: How an Industry Shaped a Region, a NH Humanities Council presentation with 1 Book 1 Valley project humanist Linda Upham-Bornstein.
The arrival of the pulp and papermaking industry at the end of the nineteenth century dramatically changed the economic, cultural and environmental landscape of New Hampshire’s northern forest. The industry and the subsequent ancillary businesses it spawned impacted the entire region. When the industry grew, the region grew. In the 1930s, when the industry began its slow death spiral, the region also declined, and the pulp and papermaking industry nearly vanished from northern landscape in the early twenty-first century. This program will examine the causes and consequences of the rise and decline of New Hampshire’s pulp and papermaking industry.