The Green Bridge, looking toward Brunswick and the Fort Andross Mill
But this plan is upsetting a group of locals who want to preserve what they consider to be a beautiful and historical landmark. “…[The bridge’s] rusty steel trusses echo a time when the mills on either side still churned out paper and textiles. Photographers love how it frames sunsets and how, at night, electric light glints off the water below. Its profile adorned the local phone book last year,” senior Carly Berlin writes for Down East magazine.
As Berlin investigated this conflict, she found that across Maine, it’s not uncommon for people living in small towns to get attached to their local
She originally wrote the article for an assignment in Russ Rymer’s spring writing course, Art of Writing about Science. She adapted it for Down East with the help of Will Grunewald ’10, who is an associate editor at the magazine.
