From the MPL's website:
Mary Margaret O’Connell began working in the Lowell mills when she was 15 years old. In this one-person performance by local favorite Sharon Kennedy, Mary Margaret will tell her story about life in the Lowell Mills in 1847. Mary Margaret’s story includes her parents’ immigration from Ireland and settlement in “The Acre” — the Irish section of Lowell. She describes the details of life in Lowell: the pigs she chases through the streets; the little house her father built using an empty flour barrel for a chimney; the childhood sicknesses she survives; the spelling lessons in the basement of St. Patrick’s Church; and her mother’s work washing floors in the big Yankee houses “across the bridge”.
The Community Read is funded in part by the Medford Arts Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by the Friends of the Medford Public Library.
