Posts Tagged “mill girls”

J G Whittier on ‘The Lowell Offering’

November 11, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

An excerpt from “The Lighting Up,” an essay in The Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whitter: Volume II (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866). The essay was first published in book form in 1843 in a collection called The Stranger in Lowell, which brought together several essays that had appeared in a…

Lydia S. Hall, b. 1818

January 2, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 1 Comment

The following is the first of a series of excerpts from books about Lowell that I will share in this new year. These brief passages about people, places, and happenings remind us of our community’s rich history and may help us notice the soon-to-be historic elements of our experience right…