lake demolition

The ethnographer argues that the loss of the paper mill, a symbol of its industrial past should be read through the lens of how people lived with and experienced such infrastructure. The mill and the industrial past helps her think about a past that has never been "pure"--what does pure mean for the pure Muskegon campaign and how is the ethnographer's story about living with industrial infrastructure as a part of the landscape pushing against the campaign's definitions of purity? Is this to say that the industrial past was never "pure" nature? and what does the ethnographer mean by the demolition and the mill as a "nod to the future"?