Program: Tour of Old English Cemetery (Free and Everyone Invited)
Date and Time: Sunday November 20, 2011 at 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Location: 1099 Gorham St., Lowell, MA
Description: The tour will be led by Lowell Historical Society board member and Assistant Administrator of the Lowell Historic board Kim Zunino. The cemetery opened in 1832 and has many burials of early mill workers of English and Scottish decent.
Coordinator: Kim Zunino
After the tour, those interested can proceed, using their own transportation, to the second part of the program:
Program: Chapter Meeting of the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS)
Date & Time: November 20, 2011, 1:30 – 5 pm
Location: Middlesex Community College, Federal Building, 50 Kearney Sq., Lowell
Description: A series of presentations on the study of gravestones and cemeteries open to the public.
Coordinator: Kim Zunino
Program: J.C. Ayer & Co. During the Civil War
Date & Time: October 23 2011, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Location: Middlesex Community College, Federal Building, 50 Kearney Sq., Lowell
Description: A few short stories of J.C. Ayer & Company’s activities during the Civil War. More information available here: http://home.comcast.net/~choyt48/adv_ayer.htm
Coordinator: Cliff Hoyt (Co-Sponsored by the National Park Service and Middlesex Community College)
Program: Civil War Reenactors.
Date: Thursday, March 22 from 7-9pm
Location: Coburn Hall room 210 (south west corner of Broadway and Wilder)
UMass Lowell South Campus.
Program: Civil War Exhibit, Lecture, and Reception
Exhibit: The photography of Tony Sampas — Lowell Remembers: The Civil War 1861-1865.
Lecture: By Richard P. Howe, Jr. – Making Sense of the Civil War.
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 2pm – 4pm
Location: Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center
40 French Street, Lowell, MA
Program: LHS Annual Meeting, Exhibit and Lecture.
Exhibit: Dickens and Massachusetts
Lecture: By Natalie McKnight, Boston University – Dickens & the Mill Girls
Date: May 27, 2012, 1:00-2:30
Location: Boott Mills Events Center, Lowell National Park, Boott Gallery, Boott Cotton Mills Museum
115 John Street, Lowell, MA
Dr. McKnight will be talking about Dickens and the Lowell mill girls, and with a particular focus on how and why Dickens was so impressed with the Lowell factories and particularly the women he met there. Dr. McKnight will emphasize Dickens’ high regard for the journal the mill girls produced, The Lowell Offering. She will suggest ways in which his visit to Lowell shaped his attitude and approach toward his own role as author for the rest of his career.
Dr. McKnight has published three books on Victorian fiction, Idiots, Madmen and Other Prisoners in Dickens andSuffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels (St. Martin’s/Palgrave) and Fathers in Victorian Fiction. She is Co-Editor ofDickens Studies Annual and Archivist and Subscription Manager of Dickens Quarterly.
Available both before and after Dr. McKnight’s presentation is the Exhibit:
Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation
This major exhibit was co-curated by Diana Archibald, Associate Professor of English at UMass Lowell, and David Blackburn, Chief of Cultural Resources and Programs, Lowell National Historical Park. It is being held at the same location as Natalie McKnight’s presentation in the Boott Gallery (first floor in the Lowell National Historical Park. This interactive exhibition will open on March 30, 2012 and run through October 20, 2012. It features a rich collection of rare Dickens artifacts, on loan from the Charles Dickens Museum of London, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the American Antiquarian Society, the New York Public Library, the Fellman Collection at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Perkins School for the Blind and other institutions. In this exhibit, an iconic 1842 portrait of the young Dickens, painted by Boston artist Francis Alexander, will receive its first public display in over 30 years.
The Dr. McKnight’s program and the Dickens and Massachusetts exhibition are free to the public.
Sponsors
Lowell Historical Society
Lowell National Historical Park,
University of Massachusetts Lowell