Hello there. My name is Steven Curry. I'm mainly doing this because it is required of me for my FYSH (First Year Seminar in Honors) class. But I am still interested in doing this because I've never done a blog before and it may be kind of fun.
Response 1
Story of the Ladies of Lowell I remember visiting the Boott Cotton Mills Museum and the Mill Girls Exhibit like it was yesterday, mainly because by the time I started writing this post, it was yesterday. I was amazed with the mills because for how dangerous they were and how awful the conditions were working there, this was the place where the industrial revolution took place in the U.S. The way they made textiles back in the 1800s is severely outdated now, but it was still very interesting to see the machines that the mill girls worked to make the textiles. Actually seeing them up close, I could only just hear how loud they were, but since they didn't actually have any cotton in them to weave, I could only imagine the horrible life-threatening conditions the weave room created for the mill girls. After I saw these, I thought back to The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott, and I realized; day in and day out, Alice, Lovey, and all of the other mill girls, some of whic
Comments
Post a Comment