Week 8

My hometown is infamous for its terrible smell. We have a large Paper Mill called Domtar (one of the largest in the world to be exact) and its factories are spread all throughout the town. Somewhere within the paper making process a foul odor is released. You might think “How bad could it be?”, I actually can’t tell you how bad it is most days, because of the many years in Johnsonburg, I’ve become accustomed to it and don’t even smell it. The smell is comparable to a fart, that’s the closest comparison I can come up with. Sometimes I wonder, when people are coming through Johnsonburg for the first time, is the first words out of their mouth “Who farted, that stinks!”