To ensure accuracy, millwright Theodore Hazen was called in to assist in the project. Hazen specializes in the repair and reconstruction of mills. His grandfather was a millwright and Hazen has worked in a number of mills. He also knows the history of mills, in the United States and abroad. There's a big fascination with mills, says Hazen.
Mills represent a tangible technology.
Many towns were built as a result of mills. And unlike the so much of our rapidly advancing modern technology, mills are of the earth. For example, the farmer takes love and care to plow the fields, plant the grain and watch it grow until it is time to harvest. Then, the farmer takes the grain to the mill, where the miller has taken such love and care to keep his machinery tuned to work. Then he places the grain for the millstones to grind.