Rock Center
| September 27, 2012
Fifty Shades of Maine: Steamy novel boosts town’s paper mill
The popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey novels has helped revive East Millinocket, Maine. The city, once dubbed the town that paper made, had fallen on hard times. A few months after reopening its largest paper mill, Random House enlisted the mill to print the trilogy to keep up with growing demand. Rock Center’s Harry Smith reports.