A Repeat of a Classic - NEH Workshop at Lowell, MA

Our good friend Sheila Kirschbaum, director of the NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution at Lowell, Massachusetts, has let all of us former attendees know that this workshop is being offered for the summer of 2010.

This was a great workshop in every respect, not least because of the gracious hospitality of Sheila and Ellen and everybody else involved. This workshop covered all of the topics that you can read out about by clicking on http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH/. It also touched on all the human aspects of this period in American history: the waves of immigration that came to Lowell, the eventual closing of the mills and the end of a way of life that many more people are having to become used to in present-day America.

We also had the pleasure of visiting Old Sturbridge Village and learning a lot more about old-fashioned ways of preparing a meal than we ever wanted to know! Hard work indeed.