When Egypt Went Broke: A Comedy of a Maine Mill Town
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Egypt, Maine — a mill town — goes broke when the bank fails, and a scheme to print local currency, a mill owner, and a young man with nothing to lose take it from there. Day was a Maine newspaperman whose books are full of loggers, river drivers and small-town politicians; the title is the joke, and the economics of a one-industry town in the 1920s are exact enough to be read as history. Fifty-nine plates by painters including George Bellows and Thomas Fearnley carry the mill dam, the frozen river and the emptied factory through the same hard winter the town lives.
Egypt, Maine — a mill town — goes broke when the bank fails, and a scheme to print local currency, a mill owner, and a young man with nothing to lose take it from there. Day was a Maine newspaperman whose books are full of loggers, river drivers and small-town politicians; the title is the joke, ...
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Holman Day (1865–1935) was an American journalist and novelist. He served as editor of the Bangor Daily Commercial and later published fiction rooted in the language and life of Maine. Among his works are The Landloper and When Egypt Went Broke.
Holman Day (1865–1935) was an American journalist and novelist. He served as editor of the Bangor Daily Commercial and later published fiction rooted in the language and life of Maine. Among his works are The Landloper and When Egypt Went Broke.
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