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BOOKS ABOUT LAWRENCE
Lawrence, Massachusetts (Images of America) Paperback by Eartha Dengler, Katherine Khalife, Ken Skulski - October 1, 1995
Lawrence, Massachusetts is the first extensive photographic history of the city in over seventy-five years, and it offers more than two hundred fascinating images from the renowned Lawrence History Center —many of them rare and previously unpublished. |
Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill by Alvin F. Oickle - June 27, 2008
The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out for help, a lantern fell, and within minutes fire engulfed the building, burning those trapped inside. |
Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000 by Llana Barber
Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. [BOOK REVIEW HERE] |
Just Hangin' Out, Ma (Lawrence - My Hometown)
by Richard Edward Noble - April 28, 2011 Says the author: "We were tenement dwellers for the most part and strongly Roman Catholic... We were ethnic...We claimed over 40 different nationalities, mostly eastern and western European. All of us had grandparents who garbled some kind of foreign mumbo-jumbo or chanted with an accent so thick none of us kids knew what the heck they were talking about." Set in 1940s-1960s. |
BOOKS ABOUT METHUEN
Methuen grew out of the Spicket Falls community during the 1800s as the Industrial Revolution arrived in this agricultural community. During this century, the town s wealthiest families, the Searles, the Tenneys, and the Nevins, brought both economic and cultural growth by building numerous mills, churches, schools, and museums in the area. The citizens, immigrants, and Yankees alike formed the backbone and built the character of Methuen that can still be seen today.
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Ernie Mack was a veritable encyclopedia of information about Methuen. Ernie had a commitment to preserving local history and civic involvement. Taking his mother's seat on the Historical Commission in 1969, he was chairman for 27 years, as well as a member for over 40 years. He continually researched and promoted the city's historical collection, writing Bridges from the Past in 1976 and contributed to the Images of America Methuen book in 1999.
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