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Eric Arnold
As we filed out of the bus, feeling like an army of explorers with the excitement of navigating the old
skeleton of one of Brewers largest job providers, we walked in line, listening to the gravel
crunching under our shoes as we survived the mill.
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Sarah Babin
As we walked into the dark musty mill on a dark rainy October day it was like it was early on
Halloween and I was walking into a very real haunted house.
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Anna Berube
As we entered on to the properties of Eastern Fine Paper Mill it looked like a spot where
you could have a hunted house in a movie.
It was Kind of Scary.
There were broken windows and old Bricks on the wall of the outside.
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Tony Bischoff
When I first stepped into the mill a very distinct smell rose up into my head.
It smelt old and dingy.
When I was at the mill I saw some things that you wouldn't necessarily find in an old, dark, long lasted paper mill.
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Ryan Boothby
As I entered the paper mill I saw a very big and dark place and it seemed like it was going to a very
scary place but it wasn't scary after all.
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Rowan Bost
As we stumbled quickly into the large opening in the mill, dripping wet from the rain,
we quickly took out our flashlights and put down our hoods.
Tap...Tap...Tap...Tap.
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Alex Charalambous
The 7th grade went on a big field trip to the Eastern Fine Paper Mill on October 12, 2006.
We arrived at the mill around 9:00 a.m. and stayed till about 12:00 p.m.
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Sara Chavarie
It was a dark rainy day as my peers and I peered into the dark damp interior of Eastern Fine Paper Mill.
As we stepped inside a sense of wonder and mystery filled us. With dark corners we never knew what was around the corner.
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Matt Colley
The mill had been closed two years earlier, and it looked as if they had just left one day.
It still had bottles of old soda half full, and peoples clothes and shoes.
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Chiyanne Cotter
It was a dark and rainy day when we went to the Eastern Fine Paper Mill.
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Gabby Craig
As I walk into the cold, dungy mill on October 12th I wondered why were we coming here what was the
whole purpose of this trip was it because the teacher's wanted us out of the school
or was it really educational who knows but to get you thinking I will tell you what
happen on this day October 12th in the Eastern Fine Paper Mill.
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Kristen Daigle
The mill in South Brewer, Maine opened its doors of hope to hundreds of people in 1889.
After over one-hundred years of paper making, it shut down in January of 2004.
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Erin Dalton
As I walked through the dark and cold paper mill, I realized that this mill wasn't just a
place for making paper it once was a little town that has slowly gone away.
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Molly Dalton
As we walked through the old, dark mill, the way it might have looked when it had closed, as if everyone that worked here had just gotten up and left.
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Shannon Dapice
As the bus, full of seventh grade middle school students pulled into the parking lot of the old deserted paper mill, I shivered thinking,
"Do we really have to go in this old dump?"
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Dylan Davis
I think that the Eastern Fine Paper Mill was neat to look at.
It has been all destroyed and disastered, but it had only been dead for 4 years.
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Evan Dionne
As I walked into the factory I could hear water dripping from holes in the ceiling.
We started the tour and started walking through the creepy rooms of Eastern Fine Paper Mill in the small city of Brewer, Maine.
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Mitchel Dunn
As we ventured into the Giant, it seemed we were walking into a Beast.
The smell was like walking into a smelly meat market (smelled some what bad).
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Abby Fizell
The Eastern Fine Mill was like an abandoned graveyard, dead, dark and alone.
The cold chill stopped me as I inched toward the door.
It was cold and quiet, except for the water dripping from the roof leaking in from the holes.
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Ian Forrest
I remember walking through the doors into the mill, on that eerie day.
When I first saw the inner part of the mill, I thought I was going dumpster diving.
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Reggie Gagne
I was in front of the entry way in to the broken down building.
I was not in a hurry to rush inside.
I stood there thinking of what it would be like once I entered.
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Justin Grevencamp
As I entered this cold homeless dark mill I could already hear the fun laughs of the mill workers long ago.
The creaks of door ways and shrieks of people made me wonder why they shut the wonders place of work down.
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John Herlihy
As I entered the old shut down building of Eastern Fine Paper Mill I wondered what lay inside that I would see and forever remember.
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Anthony Jackson
As I walked towards the old mill I had no idea that I would be walking into a disgusting, damp, creepy, yet interesting mansion.
The mill is a gigantic brick building that just happens to have smokes stacks.
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Jacob Joy
As I stepped into the dark depths of the ghostly mill questions filled my head.
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Brittney Kelly
I felt so uncertain as I stalked through the old buildings door which creaked with every step I took.
I thought I was in a horror story and everything around me was crushed, cracked and destroyed
as if all the old workers scampered out of the old mill for there lives.
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Kassie King
The opened the door to reveal a dark dungeon like cave and ushered us in.
Two years ago the mill was up and running as it had for the last one hundred years, but now the Eastern Fine
paper Mill looked like a prison after a hurricane.
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Andrew Kitchen
You never knew what you'd find in the Eastern Fine Paper Mill.
More debris, clutter and scraps you'd ever see. It was like walking into a trash dump,
with all the paper scraps you could ask for.
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Cassie Lewis
Going on a field trip to a one hundred year old mill that has no electricity and no one has been in it for two years was not my idea of fun.
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Mikayla Love
It was like a dark, dark chilly feeling when I first stepped into the mill,
when I first saw this I felt like I was about to enter a torture chamber.
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Mark Moellentine
As I walked into this empty box called the Eastern Fine Paper Mill, it seemed like no one has been here for decades
even though the mill shut down only but a few years ago, seeming a life time.
This building felt like it was always the way I saw, never looking normal.
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Nate Morris
As we ventured into the hollow giant, it seemed as if we had entered a black hole.
A mere shell of what it used to be.
The smell hit us all like a punch in the face; most of us spent the whole tour with our noses covered.
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Dustin Pelkey
I was just waiting to enter the old mill.
I was dying to go inside the old building. At last!
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Paul Qualheim
Off the bus I stepped, dropping my jaw as I glanced at the giant mill.
As I stepped into its deep dark, lair the hairs on my neck stood up on end.
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Ambureen Rana
The seventh graders entered the darkened building that had sat on South Brewer St. for over one hundred years.
This building is the Eastern Fine Paper Mill.
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Yuhi Sasaki
When I first saw the mill, I thought this was a giant grave yard.
As I got closer and closer to the mill, my heart started to beat faster and harder.
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Carly Seymour
Mucky, Damp, and Smelly were the words that ran through my head at the time I walked into the old abandoned mill, in south Brewer.
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Deaven Smith
As I walked off the bus, with the pouring rain on me, I start to wonder what the mill would be like.
Will I fall off into the gigantic holes?
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MacKenzie Smith
The Eastern Fine Paper Mill opened in 1889 in Brewer, Maine.
It closed down in January 2004.
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Maggie Sullivan
When I first got off the bus I looked at the place.
As I walked in, a cold chill went through me. I could tell there was something there.
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Jon Taylor
As I got off the bus, I looked at the old, dark mill.
I had never realized how huge this building was.
The smoke stacks looked like giant horns on a beast.
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Missy Thompson
It was a dark, gloomy, rainy day as all of us trampled off the buses as we entered the area of the old shut down mill.
I hear wows, oohs and ahhs as we all see how spooky the mill looks from the outside.
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Kassandra Valente
As I ventured into the decaying mill, I had to turn on my flashlight because it was so dark and dingy.
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Abbie Yoder
As I walked into the creepy cold mill I thought 'Oh my, I can't believe I'm walking in to such an abandoned place.'
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