PDF-(BOOS)-The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City

In the early nineteenth century Lowell Massachusetts was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial economy The Lowell Experiment explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial yet ambiguous role in that processThe book focuses on Lowell National Historical Park the flagship project of Lowells new cultural economy When it was created in 1978 the park broke new ground with its sweeping reinterpretations of labor immigrant and womens history It served as a test site for the ideas of practitioners in the new field of public historya field that links the work of professionally trained historians with many different kinds of projects in the public realm The Lowell Experiment takes an anthropological approach to public history in Lowell showing it as a complex cultural performance shaped by local memory the imperatives of economic redevelopment and tourist ritualsall serving to locate the parks audiences and workers more securely within a changing and uncertain new economy characterized by growing inequalities and new exclusions The paradoxical dual role of Lowells public historians as both interpreters of and contributors to that new economy raises important questions about the challenges and limitations facing academically trained scholars in contemporary American culture As a longstanding and wellknown example of cultureled redevelopment Lowell offers an outstanding site for exploring questions of concern to those in the fields of public and urban history urban planning and tourism studies. 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Lowell Joint School District . rom the Presidentlmost one year ago March 4 2020 was the last e we were all able to meet face to faceA rious illness Covid9 was rampaging hroughout the world and we all ent into ockdown Now one year l Excerpt from Lowell, the Story of an Industrial City: A Guide to Lowell National Historical Park and Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell, MassachusettsThe city\'s brick mills and canal network were, however, signs of a new human domination of nature in America. Urban Lowell contrasted starkly with the farms and villages in which the vast majority of Americans lived and worked in the early 19th cen tury. Farming was largely a matter of accommoda tion to the natural world. Mill owners prospered by regimenting that world. They imposed a regularity on the workday radically different from the normal routine. Mills ran an average of 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for more than 300 days a year. Only when it suited them did the owners follow seasonal rhythms, operating the mills longer in summer but in winter extending the day with whale-oil lamps.Lowell\'s canals depended on water drawn from a river, but to use the Merrimack as efficiently as possible, the mill owners dammed it, even ponding water overnight for use the next day. Anticipating seasonal dry spells, they turned the river\'s watershed into a giant millpond. They were aggressive in pur chasing water rights in New Hampshire, storing water in lakes in the spring and releasing it into the Merrimack in the summer and fall.Damming alone would not have created enough power to run the mills. Lowell\'s industrial life was sustained by naturally falling water. At Pawtucket Falls, just above the Merrimack\'s junction with the Concord, the river drops more than 30 feet in less than a mile - a continuous surge of kinetic energy from which the mills harnessed over horse power. Without the falls, there would have been no textile production, no Lowell.Pawtucket Falls had long been the focus of human activity in the area. If the tumbling water meant power to European settlers, to the nearby Pennacook Indians it was a source of food. Neighboring tribes regularly met at the falls in the spring to reap the bounty of the annual runs of salmon and sturgeon. While Indians planted cr0ps near their villages, they did not possess the land or own it individually as the English did. They moved about with the seasons, leaving themselves open to encroachment by settlerswho coveted their land. With the incorporation of Chelmsford in 1655, a permanent English presence was established near the Pennacook villages. Con flict and displacement soon followed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. 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