Medford's own award-winning storyteller Sharon Kennedy brings her acclaimed one-woman show "Mary Margaret O'Connell: Lowell Mill Girl" to the Medford Library for one night only. The 90-minute performance is free and is suitable for adults and children 9 and up.
Originally commissioned by the Lowell Heritage State Park, "Mary Margaret O'Connell" re-enacts the life of a young mill worker in Lowell in 1947, telling the stories of:
• her parents’ immigration from County Cork, Ireland
• her father’s job digging the canals
• the little house her father built, with a flour barrel for a chimney
• her mother’s work washing floors in the big Yankee houses
• the childhood sicknesses she endures and survives
• her own toil as a weaver in the mills
• her school years at St. Patrick’s Church
• the day-to-day life of the Irish in “The Acre” section of Lowell
and it includes songs from the Irish and early American traditions.
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The Boston Phoenix called it “A thoroughly researched, highly entertaining,
and ultimately moving one-woman show.”
