From Arthur and Sheila Meader’s back deck in Rumford, Maine, you can hear the 176-foot drop of the Androscoggin River plowing over rocks. But I meet Arthur in his “arrangement office,” where normally a different rush of water occurs: people are breaking into tears.Article continues after advertisementRemove Ads Arthur runs a funeral home—Meader & Son—the … Continue reading Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town