A postcard usually enhances the reality. The contrast is more stark in Corinna, Maine, a former woolen mill town on the shores of Lake Sebasticook, where years of dumping industrial waste contaminated the water supply. In 1964, the author E.B. White mourned the death of a fellow Mainer and the altered ecology of that nearby lake. “Rachel Carson is dead, but the sea is still around us…This small lake is a sad reminder of what is taking place all over, from carelessness, shortsightedness, and arrogance. It is our pool of shame in this, our particular instant of time.“ As an obituary for Carson and for clean water, The Sea [is still] Around Us uses the words of people who drank water in the region to define the story of Sebasticook. Text was drawn from correspondence, court documents, public records, internet boards and social media sites. Carson’s writing mobilized the public and led to the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency yet another generation passed before the EPA began to clean up Corinna.