Author Terry Martin, a Registered Nurse originally from Rumford Maine, grew up grateful for the paper mill that dominated the economy of her hometown. It was only years later that, working as a nurse with her physician husband, they came to realize that the smoke and toxic chemicals billowing from the mill’s stacks were causing the sky-high rates of cancer and lung disease in her community. And Poison Fell from the Sky is a chronicle of her firsthand experience in sounding the alarm and her decades-long fight to expose the devil’s bargain the community had struck with the mill, a fight that continued even after her husband fell victim to cancer.