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Reinventing Waterville: Mike Roy And A Host Of Colbians Rollup Their Sleeves As The City Charts Its Future, Gerry Boyle
Reinventing Waterville: Mike Roy And A Host Of Colbians Rollup Their Sleeves As The City Charts Its Future, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Mike Roy '74 can picture two Watervilles.
One is the humming, smokestack city where he grew up, a community built around mills and factories that churned out cloth, paper and fancy shirts, where downtown sidewalks teemed with shoppers and schools were filled to bursting
The other is a city where mills are still, or even gone, as are the big Main Street department stores. Hospitals and colleges are the biggest employers and Main Street is lined with restaurants and shops. There is an amphitheater on the riverfront, and the former Hathaway Shirt factory is home to boutiques and galleries, artists' …