Browse Article Categories

Posts Tagged “Charles Gargiulo”

‘Farewell, Little Canada’ by Charles Gargiulo (excerpt two)

September 13, 2017 by PaulM Posted in Lowell, Neighborhoods, Culture, History 1 Comment

What follows is another excerpt from Charlie Gargiulo’s memoir “Farewell, Little Canada,” in which he describes growing up in tumultuous times in the mostly French Canadian-American neighborhood that once existed close to the big bend in the Merrimack River. This is the second excerpt published on this blog, which we…

‘Farewell, Little Canada: An Excerpt’ by Charles Gargiulo

August 7, 2017 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Neighborhoods 6 Comments

The following is an excerpt from Charlie Gargiulo’s memoir about growing up in Lowell’s Little Canada neighborhood in the 1960s during the time when political leaders had targeted the area for wholesale destruction in service of an economic redevelopment policy fueled by government money. The process was called Urban Renewal,…