Burnt into Memory: How Brownfield Faced the Fire
Emery Community Arts Center, Performance SpaceDrawing on interviews with townspeople, letters, photographs, and newspaper reports, Jo Radner tells the history of the furious 1947 wildfire that in a few hours destroyed almost all of the little town of Brownfield in western Maine. Neighbors fought and fled the fire, saving what they could and supporting one another, then returned to the […]