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Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park
Paul Marion
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Description for Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 126 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; 3JM; AM; GM; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 262 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802.
Mill Power documents the making of a national park that changed the concept of what a national historical park could be. For a time in the 1800s, Lowell was Massachusetts's cosmopolitan, must-see second city. The city's industrial model was as high-tech then as Silicon Valley is today. It drew the attention of luminaries like Charles Dickens, Congressmen Davy Crockett and Abraham Lincoln, feminist sociologist Harriet Martineau, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. This insider's account of the creative, bold community-driven process to establish the park explains why today Lowell National Historical Park is renowned as ... Read more
Mill Power documents the making of a national park that changed the concept of what a national historical park could be. For a time in the 1800s, Lowell was Massachusetts's cosmopolitan, must-see second city. The city's industrial model was as high-tech then as Silicon Valley is today. It drew the attention of luminaries like Charles Dickens, Congressmen Davy Crockett and Abraham Lincoln, feminist sociologist Harriet Martineau, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. This insider's account of the creative, bold community-driven process to establish the park explains why today Lowell National Historical Park is renowned as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442236288
SKU
V9781442236288
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Ref
99-15
About Paul Marion
Paul Marion was born in Lowell and graduated from the University of Massachusetts -Lowell. In the 1980s, he was an administrator with the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, U.S. Department of the Interior, helping to develop the programs and properties of the Lowell National Historical Park. A co-founder of the Lowell Folk Festival and Lowell Heritage ... Read more
Reviews for Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park
[M]any . . . non-native Lowellians . . . followed the hard work of several remarkable people who believed that Lowell was worth saving from the ash heap. Marion, who has deep roots in the city and today is the executive director of community and cultural affairs at UMass Lowell, skillfully tells the stories of these individuals, from Mogan to ... Read more