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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Abel Alves
Frank Ares
Joe Capiche
Annibal Casseli
Joe Ferreira
Fr. Grillo
Joe Freitas
Frannie Furtado
Armand Gaoles
Luis Gomes
Frank Leandro
Belarmino Leite
Wilhelmina Leite
Joe Miguel
Frank Peixe
Eddie Silva
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John Leite Oral History Interview #2
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Oral History Interview with John J. Leite, February 20, 2016<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1933; parents from Graciosa, Azores, immigrated to the U.S. ca. 1926; both parents worked in textile mills in Manchester and Lowell; father a loom fixer, mother a spinner; they settled permanently in Lowell ca. 1936; members of St. Anthony Catholic Church, they had three daughters and one son, John J. who was educated in Lowell’s public schools; his father was a trombonist who played in and managed Lowell’s Portuguese Colonial Band; Mr. Leite joined the band as boy, playing the trumpet and later the trombone; after serving in the U.S. Army in post-war Europe, he returned home and matriculated at Lowell State Teachers’ College; after graduating from the college he taught in the area’s public schools, performed as a professional trombonist in well-known local bands, and formed his own band; beginning in the 1970s Mr. Leite became secretary/treasurer of the Lowell local of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), AFL-CIO, and after its merger with other locals in 1995, he was elected president of AFM Local 300.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali covers John Leite’s family background, growing up in Lowell’s Portuguese neighborhood “Back Central” in the 1930s and 1940s, activities at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Portuguese music and musicians in Lowell, and Lowell’s changing musical culture. There is a great deal of material on the personalities and musical playing styles of a number of prominent Portuguese musicians in Lowell from the 1950s into the 1990s. [For more on John J. Leite and his role in the American Federation of Musicians, Local 300, see “Oral History with John Leite, 1999,” interview by Gray Fitzsimons, Historian, Lowell National Historical Park]
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Ali, Mehmed
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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2016-02-20
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Leite, John
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PDF
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English
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Text
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Leite_John_002
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Mills and mill-work
Ethnic neighborhoods
Music
Fathers and sons
Civic leaders
Portuguese language
Cultural assimilation
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Graciosa (Azores)
Lowell (Mass.)
Manchester (N.H.)
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Avila's Farm
Band Hall
Bowden Street
Casselli, Annibal
Charles W. Morey Elementary School
Colonial Band
Danny's Market
Holy Ghost Band
Holy Ghost Park
Manuel Silva Store
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Pioneer Quality Market
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese Band
Portuguese Band Club (Lowell, M.A.)
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
Sousa's Market
Spinney's Garage
Toca Agora
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Jose Boldeia
Maria Boldeia
Alvarina Braga
Jorge Coelho
Deolinda Mello
Gladys Picanso
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Maria Pombeiro Oral History Interview
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Oral History Interview with Maria Pombeiro, November 1, 2016 <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong> <br />Born in the Azores on the island of Faial in 1940; following the volcanic eruption of Vulcão dos Capelinhos on Faial, Maria Pombeiro immigrated with her family to the U.S. in 1958 and settled in Lowell in the Portuguese neighborhood of “Back Central”; her father obtained employment in a paper-tube factory in Lowell and Ms. Pombeiro soon found a job in a clothing factory, also in Lowell, where she worked until the 1970s; after this factory closed she obtained a job at the Raytheon Corporation’s plant in South Lowell and then Andover, Massachusetts, doing electronic assembly work; after being laid off at Raytheon she worked at a medical supply manufacturing company in Billerica, Massachusetts. In addition to her work in manufacturing, Ms. Pombeiro was married (at St. Anthony Catholic Church in “Back Central”) and raised a family in Lowell. <br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong> <br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; Ms. Pombeiro discusses the Capelinhos volcanic eruptions on her native island in 1957-58; her family’s decision to immigrate to the U.S. and settle in Lowell; her work and the working conditions in a Lowell clothing factory in the late 1950s, into the 1970s, and her subsequent work at the Raytheon Corporation plant in South Lowell. Ms. Pombeiro also discusses Lowell’s Portuguese community, businesses and shopping in the “Back Central” neighborhood, and Portuguese foods that she enjoyed in Lowell.
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Ali, Mehmed
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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2016-11-01
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Pombeiro, Maria
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PDF
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English
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Text
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Pombeiro_Maria
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Immigrants
Community organization
Factories
Portuguese language
Marriage
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Faial (Azores)
Lowell (Mass.)
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Barry's Pastry Shop
C.F. Hathaway Company
Dennis Store
Educator Biscuit
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Folclórico
Freitas Barber Shop
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Raytheon
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Fr. DeSilva
Danny Mello
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Renato Lima Oral History Interview
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Azorean Americans
Immigrants
Soccer
Community organization
Civic leaders
Ethnic groups
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<div>Oral History Interview with Renato Lima, September 17, 2016</div>
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<b>Biographical Note:</b><br /><div>Born on the island of Faial in 1939; one of four children (three boys and one girl) of Joaquin and Antonieta deLima; Renato Lima was educated in the Faial schools and graduated from high school on Terceira island; began playing soccer as a boy and became one of Faial’s highly skilled players; moved to the island of Terceira after the devastating eruptions (1957-58) of Vulcão dos Capelinhos; after working in a governmental job for the water department on Terceira, and playing soccer for the successful Sport Clube Lusitânia, Mr. Lima immigrated to the United States in 1962, settling with Portuguese friends in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his brothers and sister would also settle; Mr. Lima obtained a factory job in Malden Mills (in Lawrence); moved briefly to Taunton, Massachusetts, where he was paid to play on a Portuguese soccer team (Taunton Sports Soccer Club), but returned to Lawrence after one year and worked for a rubber and vinyl manufacturer; he married a Portuguese woman whom he had met on Terceira and who immigrated from Terceira to Lawrence to marry him; remained an avid soccer player and fan, and was also active in Lawrence’s Portuguese-American Club.</div>
<div></div>
<b>Scope and Contents:</b><br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali, this interview covers the aftermath of the volcanic eruptions on the island of Faial and the effect on the largely agrarian population; much of the focus is on the Portuguese community in Lawrence, the various factories where Portuguese émigrés worked, the city’s small Portuguese Catholic parish (Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church), and the relationship between Lowell’s Portuguese and those in Lawrence.
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Ali, Mehmed
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2016-09-17
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PDF
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English
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Text
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OH_Lima
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Lima, Renato
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Capelinhos Volcano (Azores)
Faial (Azores)
Lawrence (Mass.)
Lowell (Mass.)
Terceira Island (Azores)
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1912 Strike (Lawrence, M.A.)
Azorean Refugee Act
Bolta Products
Feast of St. Peter and Paul
Lowell Astros
Luz do Mundo
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Portuguese American Club (Lawrence, M.A.)
Saint Peter and Paul Church
Sport Clube Lusitania
Taunton Sports
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Firmo Correa
Manuel Correia
John Falante
Fr. Grillo
Joe Freitas
Deolinda Mello
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Joseph A. Camara Oral History Interview
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Joseph A. Camara, March 5, 2016</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1927; parents Jose and Maria A. (Francisco) Camara immigrated to the U.S. from Madeira Island, settling in Lowell ca. 1920; they worked in various textile mills in the city and the father worked, as well, in the city’s large tannery; they had two children, a son and daughter; the son, Joseph A. Camara, was educated in Lowell’s public schools and studied music, and graduated from Boston University; while a young adult pursuing his education, Mr. Camara worked in a number of Lowell factories, including the Educator Biscuit Company, American Hide and Leather, the Lowell Silk Mill, and a furniture (bridge table) manufacturer; he taught music in Lowell’s public schools at the junior high and high school levels; Mr. Camara also played soccer for local Portuguese teams and was a member and board director of the Portuguese-American Center.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; included is information on Lowell’s “Back Central” neighborhood, growing up there in the 1930s and 1940s, and working in a number of factory jobs in the 1940s; there is also information on the role of the Portuguese in local politics and the activities of the Portuguese Democratic Club, as well as the activities of various Portuguese social and fraternal clubs, and activities of the Holy Ghost Society, Saint Anthony Catholic Church and two of its prominent Portuguese priests (Father Grillo and Father Silva); the interview also includes information on Lowell’s Portuguese musical and marching bands.</p>
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Ali, Mehmed
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2016-03-05
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Camara, Joseph
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PDF
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English
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Text
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OH_Camara
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Children of immigrants
Mills and mill-work
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Civic leaders
Music
Music teachers
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Lowell (Mass.)
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Aluta Newspaper
Band Hall
Barry's Pastry Shop
Catholic Youth Organization
Civic League Soccer Club
Educator Biscuit
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Freitas Market
Gomes Market
Holy Ghost Society (Lowell, MA)
Lowell Tannery
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
North Common
Perry's Market
Pioneer Club
Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese American Democratic Club
Portuguese American Musicians Association
Portuguese American War Monument
Saint Anthony's Drum Corps
Saint Anthony's Soccer Club
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Date
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1985-2018
Text
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Participants
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Abel Alves
Frank Ares
George Ares
Richie Ares
Joaquim DeFreitas
Fr. Grillo
John Goncalves
John Leite
Joe Miguel
Jimmy Oliveira
Joe Oliveira
Manuel Oliveira
George Silva
Pat Silva
Tony Silva
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Title
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Richard De Freitas Oral History Interview
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Music
Instrumentation and orchestration (Band)
Immigrant families
Engineering
Civic leaders
Community organization
Description
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<div><b>Oral History Interview with Richard F. DeFreitas, February 27, 2016</b></div>
<br /><b>Biographical Note:</b><br />Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1939; son of Josephine (Cotta) and Joaquim DeFreitas; Richard F. DeFreitas’s mother (1911-1994) was born Lowell her parents, Josephine (Almeida) and Francisco C. Cotta were from Terceira and were among the first communicants of Saint Anthony Catholic Church; his father (1908-1994) was born in Madeira and, at the age of eleven, immigrated to the U.S. with his parents (Ludevina and Francisco DeFreitas); the DeFreitas family settled in Manchester, New Hampshire; Joaquim and Josephine married in 1936, and settled in Lowell on the fringe of the “Back Central” neighborhood; they were communicants of Saint Anthony’s, and became active in the Holy Ghost Society; Josephine worked as a knitter in the New Knit Company’s factory in Lowell; Joaquim became a master mechanic at the Brox Construction Company in Dracut, Massachusetts; as a young boy, Richard F. DeFreitas attended the city’s public schools and learned to play the clarinet (his father played guitar and, with a number of Portuguese men, formed a band that played in local clubs); by age twelve he played in the Portuguese Colonial Band; in the 1950s, the family moved to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, on a former poultry farm near the Chelmsford-Lowell line; by his teens at Chelmsford High School, DeFreitas was an accomplished clarinetist musician; graduated from Lowell Technological Institute with a degree in engineering; while playing in various bands in the area, Mr. DeFreitas worked in engineering for the Raytheon Corporation, followed by Ditran, Division of Clifton-Litton Industries, producers of analog-to-digital conversion electronic equipment for the computer industry; after working at two other electronic manufacturing firms in the area, he accepted an engineering job in California he worked for electronic computer-related manufacturing firm; Mr. DeFreitas returned to Chelmsford and worked for Hybrid Systems Corporation before founding his own company DeltaLab Research, Inc. While at Hybrid and DeltaLab, Mr. DeFreitas received several patents for analog-digital conversion and audio products used in sound and musical recordings.<br /><br /><b>Scope and Contents:</b><br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; in addition to personal family history, this interview includes information on Lowell’s Portuguese community in the 1940s and 1950s, activities at the Holy Ghost Society and Saint Anthony Catholic Church, as well as the activities of and persons associated with the Portuguese Colonial Band; there is also information on working at various factories in 1940s and 1950s Lowell and the move of the DeFreitas family to the suburbs of Chelmsford in the 1950s; much of the interview focuses on music and musicianship within the area’s Portuguese community, and the various clubs where Mr. DeFreitas and other musicians played; it concludes with some information on the area’s growing electronic and computer industries, including a company founded by Mr. DeFreitas in the late 1970s.
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Ali, Mehmed
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2016-02-27
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DeFreitas, Richard
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PDF
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English
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Text
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OH_DeFreitas
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Lowell (Mass.)
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Colonial Band
Danny's Market
Delta Lab Research
Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost Park
LGBTQ
Mello's Drug Store
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Pioneer Quality Market
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese Band
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
Saint Anthony's Feast
Silver Star Café
Taunton City Band
The Rhythm Vagabonds
Three Cavaleiros
Tri Tones
Whipple Café
Worthmore Farms
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Date
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1985-2018
Text
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Gabriel Mello
Maria Natalia Veiga
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Mario Veiga Oral History Interview
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<b>Oral History Interview with Mario F. Veiga, November 21, 2016</b><br /><br /><b>Biographical Note:</b><br />Born on the Azorean island of Graciosa in 1946; son of Luzomira A. (Augusta) and Manuel J. Veiga; Mario F. Veiga was raised on the family’s farm and attended school until age eleven; he continued to work on the family’s farm until age twenty when he was drafted into the Portuguese Army; served two years in Angola, during the Angolan War of Independence; returned to Graciosa where he married Maria Natalia, whose father was born in U.S. and was therefore a U.S. citizen, but had returned to Graciosa (the home of his ancestors); in 1971 Mr. Veiga and his wife settled in Lowell, where she had lived, beginning around 1960, with her family; he immediately obtained a job in the Prince pasta factory in packing and as a machine operator; after nearly eight years at Prince, he opened a small grocery (Mario’s Variety Store) in the “Lower Belvidere” section of Lowell; about three years later he sold the business and opened a furniture store in the “Back Central” neighborhood; run by Mr. Veiga and his wife, “Mario’s Discount Furniture” proved financially successful and remains in business today (2018).<br /><br /><b>Scope and Contents:</b><br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; focuses on Mr. Veigas’ family background, growing up on Graciosa in the 1950s and 1960s; his service in the Portuguese military in Angola in the late 1960s; his marriage and immigration to the U.S.; Lowell’s Portuguese community in the 1970s; working in Lowell’s Prince pasta factory in the 1970s; and owning and operating a family-run business in Lowell’s “Back Central” neighborhood.
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Ali, Mehmed
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2016-11-21
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Veiga, Mario
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PDF
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English
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Text
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OH_Veiga
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Immigrants
Entrepreneurship
Veterans
Angola--History--Revolution, 1961-1975
Agriculture
Ethnic neighborhoods
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Graciosa (Azores)
Lowell (Mass.)
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Mario's Variety Store
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Prince Pasta Factory
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
Format
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Document
Source
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Date
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1985-2018
Text
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Participants
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Gerarda Rodrigues Aguiar<br />Joe Correia<br />Cecilia Da Camara<br />Luis Gomes<br />Encarnac<span>ão da Camara </span>Maia<span><br />Deolinda Mello</span>
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Title
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Philip C. Maia Oral History Interview
Subject
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Immigrants
Immigrant families
Track and field coaches
Language teachers
Education
Portuguese language
Cultural assimilation
Civic leaders
Community organization
Mills and mill-work
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<b>Oral History Interview with Philip C. Maia, March 25, 2017</b><br /><br /><b>Biographical Note:</b><br />Philip C. Maia was born on the island of Madeira in 1958; son of Encarnacao A. (da Camara) and João B. Maia; at the age of twelve, with his mother and three sisters, he immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the “Back Central” neighborhood, in a small apartment building on Central Street with relatives in the same building; his father joined his family in 1974 and they subsequently moved to Lowell’s “Lower Highlands” neighborhood; Maia graduated Lowell High School, where excelled in track and cross-country running; then graduated from University of Lowell (now University of Massachusetts Lowell) with degrees in education and Spanish; taught language arts at Lowell High School and coached track and cross country; married Patricia Ann Gaffney in 1987, had two children; currently live in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, <br /><br /><b>Scope and Contents:</b><br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; interview includes family background; boyhood and schooling on Madeira island in the 1960s; immigration to the U.S. and initial years in Lowell’s “Back Central” neighborhood; entering public school as a non-English speaker, prior to bilingual education; the occupations of family members in Lowell; activities of family and prominent members of Lowell’s Portuguese community in local social clubs and Catholic-church affiliated organizations; teaching language classes and coaching track at Lowell High School; and teaching Portuguese in the Lowell community.<span><br /></span>
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Francis J. “Jack” Picanso, March 3, 2017</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Francis J. “Jack” Picanso was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1936; son of Rita R. (Stillings) and Anthony Picanso, who were also born in Lowell; the fraternal grandfather, Manuel C. Picanso (1868-1937) immigrated from the Azores (most likely the island of Graciosa), settling in Lowell in 1887; Manuel Picanso was one of the founders of Lowell’s first Portuguese Catholic church (on Gorham and Congress streets) and subsequently helped found Saint Anthony Catholic Church on Central Street; he worked in the Appleton Cotton Mills as weaver and later in the skilled position of loom fixer; Manuel Picanso also purchased a house—most Portuguese immigrants at this time rented in tenements—near Lincoln Square in Lowell in a part of the city where few Portuguese lived; Jack Picanso attended parochial schools in Lowell, graduating from Keith Academy in 1953; he then matriculated at Boston College, graduating with a bachelor of arts in Greek; Picanso returned to Lowell, taught at Keith Academy, followed by two public schools in Lowell, the Varnum elementary and the Daley middle schools; after teaching math at the Daley, Picanso was appointed assistant to the principal at the Daley and also served as president of the employee’s bargaining unit of Lowell’s school administrators.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; focuses on the Picanso family history, notably Manuel C. Picanso, a prominent member of Lowell’s Portuguese community in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century; also includes information on the small businesses operated by Picanso relatives, as well as marriage and family life with non-Portuguese spouses in pre-WWII and post-war Lowell; part of the interview also focuses on parochial school education in 1940s in Lowell, and Jack Picanso’s career as a teacher and administrator in Lowell’s public schools, beginning in the late 1950s.</p>
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
Memórias – Preserving the Stories of
Lowell's Portuguese Community
Oral History Interview with Patricia (Santos) Nickles, February 25, 2017
Biographical Note:
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1950; daughter of Ruth E. (Cassidy) and Charles R.
Santos Jr. (1923-1990); both born in Lowell. Ruth (Cassidy) Santos (b. 1923) was from
an Irish-American Catholic family. Charles R. Santos Sr. (1901-1964) was born to a
Portuguese immigrant family on Charles Street in Lowell. His father (Nickles greatgrandfather) Alberto(Albert) Santos, born in the Azores (likely on the island of
Graciosa), married Aldina Silva. Charles Sr. attended Lowell public schools but left upon
completing elementary school. He married Mary Farley of Lowell(1903-1939)who was of
Irish-Catholic heritage; worked a few years in a small foundry in the Ayer’s City section
of Lowell, and purchased a house near the foundry on 32 Marriner Street. After
employment as meat dept. manager at Saunders market on Gorham St. in Lowell, he
began a successful family-run wholesale meat company, Charles Santos & Sons Inc.
The first of seven children (two girls and five boys), Charles Jr. was educated in Lowell
public schools. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1940, after which he worked
briefly as a welder at the Charlestown (Massachusetts) Navy Yard. During WW II he left
to servein the U.S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific. After sustaining combat injuries
related to his participation in the liberation of Guam, he returned to Lowell, graduated
from Northeastern University, and worked as manager/president in the family meat
business. At this time(1950’s), Santos became involved in local Democratic politics.
working as campaign treasurer for the campaign of Attorney James L. O’Dea for District
Attorney of Middlesex County and then for John F. Kennedy’s Senatorial and
Presidential campaigns. From 1962-1967 he was employed with General Services
Administration as a liaison officer for the federal government. He was appointed U.S.
Postmaster of Lowell in 1967, serving in this position for 12 years before promotion in
1979 to District/Mgr., Middlesex- Essex, Mass. He concluded his career with promotions
to District Manager/Postmaster of Honolulu and the Pacific Region (1981), and then to
District Manager of the Boston District (New England States) in 1983, before retirement
in 1986.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali focuses almost exclusively on family
history, primarily on the Santos (paternal) branch, with some reference to the Cassidy
(maternal) family. It includes the experiences of marriage across ethnic lines,
education, and occupational roles of family members in Lowell. It also includes
information regarding the operation of business in a local family company, as well as
that of local and state politics in the 1950’s and 1960’s, including the John F. Kennedy
Senatorial and Presidential campaigns.
INFORMANT: PATRICIA NICKLES
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�INTERVIEWER: MEHMED ALI
P=PATRICIA
A=ALI
A: Okay, this is interview with Pat Santos Nickles on February 25, 2017. Pat thanks
for sharing some memories today.
P: Oh, my pleasure.
A: First, Pat, just a little bit about you. When and where were you born?
P: I was born Saint John’s Hospital March 31, 1950; parents, Charles Santos, Ruth
Cassidy Santos.
A: And where, which neighborhood did you grow up in?
P: My father, having been a World War II Marine Corps veteran, thought he was very
fortunate to be able to call his first residence the Veterans housing project, a red brick
complex opposite the Olympia Restaurant and the Greek Church. It was developed for
returning WWII veterans. He and my mother, after getting married, moved in with her
family for a short time until moving into Veteran’s housing. I don’t know if there was a
seniority list or a lottery, but they felt very fortunate to get into veterans housing. A lot of
up -and -coming Lowellians lived there. Dr. Felix Sweeney was going to medical school
at the time. Jim O’Dea, who became District Attorney, was attending Harvard law
school. He was very close with my father. They remained close friends for life. So, a
lot of very promising young people who made their mark in the history of this city lived
there as well.
My parents were married five years before I was born. I lived in the housing project with
them as an infant until I was eight months. I believe I saw on the deed in the month of
December of 1950, that he had it in the works to build a house on a piece of land that
he obtained from his father, on Marriner Street in Lowell, opposite the old Nickles Dairy
and Saint Patrick’s Cemetery. It was right next to my grandfather Santos’ home, the old
family home, where all seven Santos children were born. Grandpa Santos [Charles R.
Santos Sr.], when he married his wife Mary Francis Farley, purchased that home. He
was quite proud at such a young age to be able to purchase a home. I know my father
was born when his mother was twenty and his father was twenty-two. So, Grandpa
bought that house at a young age, which was very impressive when that was not the
case once upon a time.
He chose the neighborhood because it was walking distance to the foundry [originally
called the Eagle foundry and located in the Ayer’s City section of Lowell]. And I believe
the foundry was where manufactured parts for the mills were made. My grandfather
Santos got the job because his older brother Tony was a foreman. He helped my
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�grandfather get employment as a molder. His brother Joe also worked there. A lot of
Portuguese were employed there.
It was very country-like in that area for many years. It looked like a different world.
There was a vacant lot of land opposite my grandfather’s family home, and they always
called it Woessner’s Field, because the land belonged to a gentleman named Julius
“Gus” Woessner. That field was used for ice skating in the winter and baseball in the
good weather. I remember my dad telling me that the guys from the foundry would
meet the guys from the Harvard Brewery next door and have a heck of a time playing
baseball. People organized their own fun. They didn’t need sponsors; they didn’t need
anyone. They did it themselves. And my father, all his life, was a baseball fanatic. It
was funny that he didn’t like to sit and watch the game for hours, he preferred to play
the game.
A: Was your grandfather Santos an immigrant to the city, or was he born here?
P: His family, to the best of our knowledge, was from the island of Graciosa in the
Azores. Some of his siblings were born there, but my grandfather [Charles R. Santos
Sr.], being younger, was born when they reached Lowell, and he was born on Charles
Street where an old Zayre’s had been for many, many years. They were near the
classic Portuguese Back Central Street area near Barry’s Bakery and Saint Anthony’s
Church. That’s where he was born. For reasons unbeknownst to our family, his father
separated from his mother. They call it a “poor man’s divorce.” We have no idea what
the circumstances were that caused it, but the father took three of the children with him,
but left the rest with my Portuguese great-grandmother. He brought the kids to New
Bedford where he obtained employment.
Great-grandmother Aldina moved with the rest of the family to 59 Court Street, in back
of Saint Patrick’s Cemetery.
My grandfather was always with her. There were still a number of siblings living with
her. His brother Tony, Joe, and his sisters Jennie and Margaret were there. He also
had sisters Sarah and Mary, and a brother Manuel, but they were in New Bedford with
their father Alberto.
My great-grandmother, from the stories I heard, was a force to be reckoned with. She
was a tiny woman who spoke in broken English. She ran a little grocery store to
support her family.
A: This would be your great-grandmother?
P: Yes. She is my father’s paternal grandmother and my great-grandmother. It’s
amazing to hear her described as wearing a long dress, an apron, and a colonial dust
cap., She farmed a piece of Woessner’s field that I had described earlier, the land
opposite my Grandpa’s house on Marriner Street. She actually farmed part of that
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�field. I imagine she paid Julius Woessner a fee. I don’t know if she paid him in
vegetables or money. She also made homemade pies and sold them from her store.
She also raised on her land some livestock including chickens and pigs. You could do
that in Lowell then. I remember my grandfather talking about how she would bring her
pigs to the butcher. They would be slaughtered, and then the butcher would have her
return at a certain date when he would give her the meat from the slaughtered pigs.
She would take the meat home and make homemade Portuguese linguisa. That takes
a tough lady to take pigs to slaughter.. But I guess being that plucky helped her survive.
One of my favorite stories may make her sound a little bit shady, but bootlegging was
pervasive at the time. Relatives from the distant past aren’t fun unless they’re a little
shady. My Aunt Margaret Santos, my grandfather’s sister, , was one amazing woman,
a dynamo. She told me about an awful experience that she had with my great
grandmother when she was about eighteen. Prohibition was in full force. Many people
in Lowell brewed their own moonshine, and great grandmother Santos was no
exception. Margaret saw her mother making bathtub gin, including the coloring. There
was a little creek, no longer there, that ran through their property. They put bottled
moonshine in that creek because of occasional police raids. She would put the
moonshine bottles in a box with a rope ,and she would sink it right into the creek with
some bushes hiding the rope. Aldina would pull it out as needed. There was a whole
system in place. Margaret told me that when she was eighteen, somehow my greatgrandmother Santos got caught, and Margaret accompanied her to court. Margaret
said even at age eighteen she sensed that the judge was sympathetic to this poor little
Portuguese woman struggling to keep her family fed and a roof over their head . He
gave great-grandmother Santos a lecture on how it’s illegal to bootleg, as well as a
good lecture about not doing the right thing.
I don’t attempt to speak for all Portuguese because I don’t know how the culture varies.
I can only speak for my own family. They were quite blunt with what they had to say.
They did not mince words, and they looked at frankness as a virtue. ? Why wouldn’t
you not want an honest statement? So as the judge was winding up his lecture, he
said, “So now that you know, and I’m sure that you will know better in the future. Can
you tell me honestly you will never do this again”? Margaret began to breathe a sigh of
relief thinking that all was going to go well. Then great grandmother Santos kicked up
her heels and said, “I’ve got all these mouths to feed. If I have to do this again to feed
my children, I’ll do this again!” Margaret said that she saw the judge sink in his chair.
This is not what he expected. He gave her ae gentle fine and a lot of reprimand.
Margaret said that she knew that he was being so humane under the circumstances,
but she also said, “I thought I was going to die.” [Both laugh] Again I don’t know how
the culture might have been different among families, but I get a sense that there was a
lot of this kind of personality in the family, especially in my grandfather. My grandfather
was certainly, we have more funny stories about him because he said it the way he saw
it and didn’t see where there was any problem being that way.
A: Where was her store?
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�P: Yes, her store was later called Hood’s Variety. Alvina’s daughter Margaret took it
over and married Lew (Lewellyn) Hood, but Margaret ran the store. They lived on court
St., off St. Patrick’s cemetery, before they moved and converted part of the adjacent
store as their residence. The store was at 367 Plain St. Coincidentally my cousin Kenny
Santos lives there on 367 Plain St.. Funny to think there is a Santos still there If you
look at the structure of the building you can see how the front would have
accommodated a variety store. But the building is still there. Kenny, by the way, retired
as meat manager for Demoulas/Market Basket stores.
A: Now, do you think she sold her illegal bootleg stuff out of the store?
P: No. It was sold privately from her home. People knew from whom I to get their
moonshine. My mother once told me her own story. She was from an Irish family on
Crosby St. in the flats. One of her best friends was a Greek girl. Mom would go to her
friend’s house to play. It was not unusual for the parents, in the winter, to give them
bottles to hide in snowbanks. My mother just looked at it as a playful activity that kids
would do for the adults. Later, adults would tell them to go get a nice cold bottle. The
kids would see adults exchanging bottles for cash. This went on all during Prohibition.
No one really went dry. [Laughs]
A: That’s funny huh.
P: Yah, quite common in Lowell.
A: What else can you tell us about your great-grandmother? Did she ever remarry?
P: No.
A: No?
P: No when someone has a large family it can be a daunting thing to take on. I get the
impression that she was a feisty little thing too. I think if there were a man in her life she
would have to be the boss. She was a survivor and a trooper. The whole family had
some laughs about her, but they were very impressed with her natural intelligence and
energy, and ability to survive.
The family often talked about a terrible time in their history, the 1918 influenza epidemic.
My grandfather said that as a little boy he saw hearses frequently going up and down
Gorham Street to the cemeteries, like a bad dream. It touched the family of my greatgrandmother. She had an eleven-year-old girl named Emma, who at that time, fell sick
and died shortly after. She died around Christmastime, during 1918 influenza
epidemic, after battling tuberculosis for some time.
My father told me a story that his father told him. Grandfather Santos, in his bedroom
drawer on Marriner Street kept armbands. At one time men’s shirts were all made with
the same sleeve length and armbands were used to adjust sleeves for fit. When dad
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�asked his father what they were, he explained that they were a Christmas gift from his
sister Emma who died at age eleven during the pandemic you lose someone you love,
it never goes away. There is always something there. This family story was a little
piece of a larger history of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
My great- grandmother Santos, she was only 54 when she was killed in a car accident
in 1930, in East Chelmsford by Baptist Pond.
A: What happened?
P: Her daughter Mary was learning to drive and was practicing in that area The car
went off the road and into the water. Mary survived, but my great-grandmother
drowned.
A: Oh.
P: The great Portuguese grandmother died at age 54 in 1930 It was something that
understandably haunted Mary all her life. That was a terrible way to lose her.. But
Aldina’s family was very close and went on without her. They all shared and were very
giving. I read the book from the Lowell Historical Society, “Comunidade” The Santos
family showed all the characteristics described of the Portuguese people in
Comunidade. They were very proud and would never think of taking assistance. As a
family they would pool what they had. Comunidade mentioned that the Portuguese
family tried not to all work in the same place. There were Santoses in the foundry, but
other members of the family had other kinds of works, as well as second jobs. This
protected the family should someone lose a job due to a strike, etc. In other words, don’t
put all your eggs in one basket. They’d always be somebody in the family to assist
others in the family. The family would manage because they shared together as a
community. They were independent. They worked hard, without complaint, but they
weren’t submissive doormats either. If they had to strike, they would do it, and then
would be supported by family members who worked elsewhere.
A: Yah. When was your great-grandmother killed in the accident? Were her kids fairly
young?
P: No, she was 54. The family was grown up and independent at that point.
A: About your grandfather. He went to Lowell schools?
P: Elementary.
A: Where did he attend elementary school?
P: He attended the former London Street School, not far from his Court St. home near
St. Patrick’s Cemetery..
A: Okay.
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�P: I remember the Portuguese exhibit [sponsored by the Saab Center for Portuguese
Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell] contributing a photo of Miss Haggerty’s
third grade class at the London St. school. My grandfather was in the far back row. He
was the little boy in the plaid shirt. That was his only formal education. Later he worked
for a while as a child laborer in the mill.
A: Did he?
P: His mother did some work in the mill, and he did some work with her.
A: Do you know which mill they worked in?
P: No, it was just one of the mills in Lowell. It was for a short period of time, before his
brother Tony, who was foreman at the foundry, got him a job as a molder.
Later, my grandfather got work in Saunder’s Market, located near the old Saint Peter’s
parish was on Gorham Street, the housing project area. He was in charge of the meat
department where he had a lot of interaction with the people in that business. He was
very thrifty and industrious and in a short he was setting up his own wholesale meat
business with abattoir(slaughter house) in Tewksbury. But the main business was
located on the corner of King and Jackson, off the Lord Overpass.
A: Did he own the land in Tewksbury as well as on King Street and Jackson Street?
P: Yes
A: Where was the slaughterhouse in Tewksbury?
P: Trull Road, not far from Andover St. It was a woodsy and swampy area.
A: What year did he first open?
P: Mid to late 1930s
A: So during the depression he opened a business.
P: Yes, My father said that his family never suffered during the depression. My grandpa
stood 5 foot 1, wore a big Stetson hat and he always had a big cigar in his mouth. He
was a no nonsense personality. My father had funny stories regarding Grandpa when
he entered the workplace. He was a comical character, but a very admirable human
being in so many other ways. My father said that during the depression school children
rolled up newspapers to fill in holes in their shoes. Kids would watch other kids eating
an apple at recess and they’d put their index finger up and say, “checks, checks,”. This
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�meant that they wanted whatever was not eaten. Dad and his siblings never knew these
hardships.
Dad said that everyone in his family had decent shoes, decent clothes, no one was
hungry.” Dad also had a very doting Irish mother. And as number one son, he might as
well have been Prince Charles. Her children had dancing lessons and music lessons.
The two youngest ones had ponies. When the children took dancing lessons they had
recitals. So, there was money for costumes when other kids were lucky to have a coat
to wear to school. The family was not rich, but they were well off for a family during the
depression. Again, it all goes back to my five foot-one grandfather, with an elementary
school education, but he had so much common sense, so much natural intelligence. He
was sound in his judgement, he was candid and honest, and had no patience for
nonsense. Above all, he honored his family. He turned out a great family.
A: So, he only did elementary school.
P: Yes.
A: Did any of your grandfather’s siblings go to parochial school?
P: No, they all went to Lowell public school None attended or graduated from high
school.
P I question if any graduated from junior high, but they were all smart and successful.
A What’s your grandfather’s name again?
P: Charles like my father.
A: Yes. So, Grandfather Charles started on his own. Were any of his brothers involved
in the business to begin with?
P: No. He was the only brother who went into the meat business. The others were in
the foundry.
A: In the foundry, okay.
P: To the best of my knowledge that’s, that’s what they did. I heard that Tony would
get some part time jobs to supplement his income, but the foundry was where they
were employed. Grandpa was unique in that He was self-made in his career. My father
told a story about my grandfather’s no-nonsense approach in parenting Dad said that
when he was twelve years old my grandfather brought him to Saunder’s Market, where
Grandpa was in charge of the meat department. After speaking to the owner, Grandpa
told my father to sit at the cash register. There gave Dad a quick lesson in making
change. Then he said, “That’s your new weekend job.”
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�A: So, your father started at Saunder’s?
P: Yes, As a cashier on Saturdays.
A: Okay
P: Dad said he learned to be good at math in a hurry. . At times my grandfather would
take the beef truck to the Brighton stockyards outside of Boston, Brighton. There were
trains that came in with cattle cars. My father would go along with Grandpa, and his inlaw uncle, my Aunt Margaret’s husband Lew Hood who worked for my Grandpa.,
Grandpa would quickly scan a herd of cattle and come up percentages telling you how
much fat waste and how much prime he could expect just from observation. Dad said it
was mind boggling how accurate he was with his estimations. He had a strong aptitude
for math. At night, Grandpa would sit in bed with his pillows propped up, reading a book
on business law. Sometimes, he’d call someone in to help him pronounce a word, so
that he could talk to the lawyers about business matters My father said he was always
educating himself.
A: Hm, interesting.
P: When Kennedy was elected President, My grandfather’s early business reaction was
to increase the supply of hamburg production the because the hamburger was
Kennedy’s favorite sandwich. My father said that he was right. They couldn’t keep the
hamburg in, because of Kennedy’s popularity. The meat business went through a big
hamburger phase. Grandpa often demonstrated a keen sense of business. There are
many stories to tell about him.
A: Yes, we’ll keep sharing some stories.
P: What else should I think about?
A: Tell us more about the business. The business grew over time, right?
P: Yes, it was a very arduous business. It was extremely difficult. I won’t even get into
the subject of slaughtering animals regardless of the work, but my uncles all had a
marvelous sense of humor. You would wonder how they could keep the personalities
that they had. My uncle Roger was involved with slaughtering about thirty cows a day.
It was a horrible thing to have to do. My uncles needed to get into a certain frame of
mind. But they managed by coming up with funny stories, and crazy little gags to play
on each other for fun. But they got through it. My father, who later ran the business,
had a deal with tough customers, who in some cases, were unbelievable characters.
One time Dad went to downtown Lowell to collect. Many people didn’t want to pay their
bills, and this would take its toll on business. That essentially is why in the later part of
the 1970s the business started to go under. We were going through a terrible economy.
Many small restaurants and diners were going out of business during this recession
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�period. The owners would pack up, leave, and not pay their bills. It took a toll on the
family business. Once Dad had to collect from a restaurant owner somewhere near city
hall. It was wintertime, and my father said the man was very belligerent when my father
came in to collect on a bill. They exchanged a few words and the guy ended up chasing
my father while wielding a knife. Dad had to jump over a big snowbank and roll away to
escape. There was a lot that went with running a business..
Dad also told me stories about seeing very heartbreaking things. One time he had to go
to a woman’s house to collect because she was running up bills and not paying them.
When he entered the house, her children were sitting on the floor. She started to cry.
She opened her refrigerator, and it was empty. Dad was so upset that he opened his
wallet and ended up giving her money to go grocery shopping. Afterwards he shared
the story. My grandfather didn’t comment at first, but later joked how we wasn’t Dad out
to collect anymore.” [Both laughs]
A: Too much of a softy, right?
P: Yes! But I think my grandfather understood. It was just a way of kind of dismissing
the situation.
A: So, what was the business called?
P: Charles Santos and Sons Wholesale Meats, Inc.
A: Okay.
A: So ,they sold to restaurants.
P: Yes, they did. They also included provisions. You would see these huge jars of
mayonnaise, relish, mustard, ketchup, things that restaurants would routinely use.
A. Would they do process hamburg, or?
P: Yes. The slaughterhouse would provide the raw meat.
A: Then it was brought to King Street where it was processed down to different cuts.
P: Yes, The business was on the corner of King and Jackson. On the Jackson St. side
there were massive refrigerators inside. Beef would be hung there. I can remember my
uncles wearing white coats going into the refrigerator and shouldering huge pieces of
beef. They would bring the meat to a cutting room where they had a grinder. Certain
cut beef would be put in the grinder and later rolled in white paper. Then it was brought
into the office section., where customers purchased from a counter, after having placed
their orders.. The customers came to purchase wholesale meat, which included
hotdogs, hamburg and steak etc. Very popular were what they called the jack pack
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�steaks, which were multiple steaks in big boxes. They were very popular with
restaurants and people planning large parties and with families on a budget.
A: Now those steaks, were those cut on site or were they refrigerated or frozen and
brought in?
P: They were fresh. They were not frozen.
A: Okay.
A: So, they had both retail and wholesale essentially.
P: Yes.
A: Okay.
P: Everything they sold was wholesale, even to the public.
A: Okay.
P: There were many women who went there weekly to feed their families, and they
would enjoy great savings.
A: What was the competition for wholesale meats in Lowell?
P: It might have been only Lowell Provision in Centerville.
A: Okay.
A: Did they bring in the cattle and slaughter it somewhere?
P: I’m not sure how they operated. I just knew they were there. I don’t know of
another business besides Lowell Provision. I always remember hearing the stories of
the DeMoulas Brothers getting started in the Greek Acre, where they had a little family
market. They bought all their meat from my grandfather Santos. That’s how my father
became friendly with the family, particularly Mike DeMoulas He admired their work ethic
and their family. I can also remember when I was in my early teens, my dad came
home for lunch. He was so excited with his conversation with Mike DeMoulas who told
him about family plans for an enormous supermarket on Chelmsford Street. Dad said
they were taking a big gamble but if they won, they’d become an enormous success. I
can vividly remember that whole conversation. This occurred when we lived in our
house on the corner of Marriner Street and Boston Road.
I can also remember the evening of the market’s opening day on Chelmsford St.,
seeing form our home these bright spot lights wavering back and forth in the sky. It was
related to the grand opening of the DeMoulas on route 110. Yes, I can remember that
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�amazing event as a kid. My father’s words came back to me, because the big gamble
launched a successful chain of markets to follow.
A: That’s for sure.
P: That story reminded me of the many qualities I always admired in my father. He
didn’t understand the meaning of jealousy. If something wonderful happened to
anybody you would think it was happening to my Dad. He was so happy for anyone
who experienced success or great luck in life. And he was so excited for the family.
Eddie Lelacheur who became our state rep, was also our neighbor on Marriner Street.
He lived at the end of Marriner St., on my family’s side. He also bought his meat from
my grandfather when he had Stone Pine Market on Gorham Street. Ed was an outgoing
and funny man, who was wonderful with kids.
A: Okay, so not only restaurants and housewives, but also the little markets across the
city?
P: Yes.
A: Did your father have any other stories to share about the DeMoulas family’?
P: Dad and Mike served together on various boards and organizations.
A: Okay. Tell us about your Irish grandmother
P: Before I talk about my Irish grandmother, Mary Farley, it might be helpful to hear
about how the Portuguese felt about other ethnic groups. What I found very interesting
about the Portuguese whom I knew, was that they were unlike some other ethnic
groups in the city who were clannish with their own. The Portuguese were close, but
they were very receptive to other cultures, other people. They valued being upright,
hard-working, and commonsensical. They didn’t have a lot of patience for nonsense. If
you appeared to be a solid commonsensical person with values, ethnicity didn’t matter.
I think the Portuguese women were a little partial to Catholic, but even that was not as
intense as you might think.
My grandfather’s sister Margaret, married Lew Hood, who was Protestant. He worked
at Santos and Sons for my grandfather and they got along very well.
A: Sure, yes.
P: My grandfather, even though he was very good to Father Rev. John F. deSilva at St.
Anthony’s, he was not all openly religious. He believed in God and the importance of
morals. He worked hard for his family, and was just twenty-two when my father was
born. The love of his life was a young Irish girl, from a lovely family, the Farley’s of
Centralville. They were just two young people who fell in love. I didn’t hear of any
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�objections from the Portuguese side. I remember stories about when Dad was dating
my mother. His extended Portuguese family all doted on my dad. To them, he could do
no wrong. My mother said that she was amazed when she met the family for the first
time. They were so delightful, and they were so gracious to her immediately. They
made her feel like she was something extra special because she was my father’s girl.
A: And she’s Irish as well?
P: My mother is Irish as well, yes. There is another Portuguese story that always
touched my heart, my grandfather Santos, which had to do with Grandpa’s sister
Margaret, who also doted on my dad. One time Dad visited Margaret when he was on
leave from the Marines, showing up in his green uniform. When she opened the door,
she looked at him disappointedly. And when he asked what was wrong, she told him
that she had boasted to the neighbors that he was a Marine. She said, “But you don’t
have the beautiful uniform on.” Dad explained that the dress blues were expensive and
that during the war you had to buy your own. Months went by before he saw her again.
On his next leave home, she presented him a gift box containing Marine dress blues.
She took all the steps so that she could give him his Marine Blues, because that meant
so much to her. She said, “I want to show you to my friends, and I want you to wear
that beautiful uniform.” Later he married my mother in that uniform at St. Peter’s church
on Gorham St.
A: Oh terrific.
P: Son hearing this story I thought what special people to care that much. .
A: Now where did your grandparents meet? Do you know?
P: They were introduced by a young Centerville neighbor of my grandmother’s.
Everybody called him O.B., as in O’Brien. He introduced them at a local dance.
A: Okay.
P: Then my grandfather started courting her. There were about fourteen Farley
children in her family.
A: Any relation to Leo Farley who was the mayor?
P: No. Not to my knowledge.
A: Okay.
P: My father’s sister Shirley, married Ed Silva from Winthrop Ave. in Lowell. His father’s
business was Silva Wallpaper and Paint. Ed’s father was Manuel and his mother
Margaret. Margaret. I would run out of ways to compliment Margaret. She has to be
one of the most beautiful human beings ever. The father was very interested in having
his sons work in the business. That was more the mindset then of the Portuguese
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�father. If there was a family business, then there seemed to be little justification in going
to college. My grandfather was also of that frame of mind.
What drove my father to further educate himself at Northeastern, was the GI Bill. He
saw it as a great opportunity after the war. He was in the Business Administration co-op
program
In the case of Manuel and Margaret Silva, for some reason Margaret recognized how
important education was, and she was the driving force to have the boys educated. My
father’s sister Shirley married Ed Silva a young Portuguese man who went to Boston
College and graduated Valedictorian. His father Manuel couldn’t afford to have him
board. So, he took the train to Boston College every day and back. Ed was an ROTC
student. He had served his time on duty in Oklahoma for a few years after graduation,
and then General Electric in Lynn hired him. He ended up retiring as Vice President in
General Electric in Cincinnati, Ohio. That’s an impressive success story about a nice
Portuguese boy from Lowell, who wallpapered and painted his way through B.C. His
family did very well.
A: Did your grandparents marry at St. Anthony’s?
P: My grandmother was Centralville, so it was St. Michael’s.
A: Okay.
P: Because it was customary to marry in the girl’s church.
A: Okay.
P: And she would have been in St. Michael’s parish in Centralville.
A: Now you said your grandfather was friendly with Father deSilva?
A: What do you know about the father?
P: Father deSilva? I heard he was a man who could have a gruff manner, but it did not
reflect the kind man he was beneath. He was extremely kind to those in need. He was
highly thought of by the Portuguese Community. One time he was looking for donations
to help the church. This was after my grandmother had passed away from gall bladder
surgery, leaving 7 children, my father being the oldest, and my grandfather was only 38.
Years old.
A: How old was she when she passed?
P: She was thirty-six.
A: Wow.
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�P: Father deSilva was looking for people to donate or help the church. My grandfather
donated two confessionals in my grandmother’s memory.
A: Okay.
A: He didn’t go to church though. (P: No). Did he go Christmas, or?
P: Church attendance declined as his family became adults.
A: So, after your grandparents got married, did your father and the family go to church?
P: Yes. The family did because the mother was very Irish Catholic.
A: And where did they go to church then?
P: They were communicants of Sacred Heart church because they lived at 32 Marriner
St., which was considered the Sacred Heart Parish.
A: Did your father make his First Communion there?
P: Yes.
A: Okay, very good. What else about your grandfather and Portuguese connections?
P: My grandfather attended the Holy Ghost Fairs and other Portuguese activities. He
never spoke Portuguese at home because he didn’t see the point. He was business
minded, and he didn’t see where it was relevant to business. But when my father
accompanied him to Holy Ghost Fairs and other Portuguese celebrations, it surprised
him to hear Grandpa switch right into Portuguese jabbering away with the old timers.
Then Grandpa would switch back into English.
A: He must have had Portuguese customers though for the business?
P: Yes, but he had all ethnicities for customers. There were a lot of Greeks. I know a
Greek woman who came over here when she was fourteen. She told me that every
Saturday, her mother who spoke no English, would take her to Santos and Sons. She
would have a note to order meat, because they spoke only their native language, as did
other customers.
A: And the Greeks had a lot of restaurants, right?
P: Yes. My father was very good friends with the Tatsios Brothers who owned a small
restaurant near City Hall. He went to high school with the Tatsios Brothers, and he was
especially friendly with Johnny Tatsios. He had a lot of Greek friends. A lot of people
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�thought Santos was a Greek name. Because of his black hair and his many Greek
friends, Dad was often thought to be a Greek boy.
A: Were there Portuguese restaurants back in the day?
P I do not remember a Portuguese restaurant in Lowell, but Portuguese food was
always available at church functions. My father loved Portuguese soup, also called
Caldo Verde, a green, soup because of the kale in it. I make it. Portuguese people
think it’s very delicious. It’s a very ethnic dish, but now it’s in many upscale Boston
restaurants. Once, if you wanted it, and you were Portuguese, you had to make your
own at home, or find it at Portuguese fairs, festivals, or church dinners. Some local
Portuguese restaurants came to the city later.
A: That is interesting in itself because many other ethnic groups had restaurants, (P:
That’s right)
P: The Portuguese made their living usually from physical or blue collar labor,
including construction. A man I knew once worked summers in Prince Macaroni for
some extra money. He told me that he worked with a lot of Portuguese guys. He said,
“God, those guys don’t even take a lunch break.” He was amazed by the Portuguese
work ethic.
A: Were there any Portuguese professionals when your father was young?
P: I don’t remember because it was still the generation of the blue-collar work. At that
time there was a mindset that if your father established a business, you would work
there for the family. There were a lot of shops and small businesses. But the thinking
changed. My Uncle Ed Silva, (my uncle because he married my father’s sister Shirley)
graduated from Boston College and retired as vice president of General Electric out in
Ohio. His push came from his mother. She had a different philosophy about education
and persuaded her husband to be receptive to the idea that the kids be college
educated.
A: Your grandmother died when she was thirty-six. (P: Yes) How old were the
youngest kids at that point?
P: About five and three.
P: Yes, Shirley and Freddie. Freddie was the youngest.
A: How did your grandfather deal with that death?
P: Again, there’s a lot of coming together. My father said he saw very little of him, and
people told him that Grandpa was emotionally devastated. He was just so emotionally
devastated. Aunt Rita Farley moved in with the family to help. The older kids helped
with household chores. My Dad washed floors He said whoever got up in the morning
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�first, put the coffee on, and they delegated chores for the day. The older ones had jobs
looking after the younger ones. They all had to answer to my grandfather. He was the
guy in charge, but he had to run a very demanding business as well. Then my
grandfather’s sister Margaret, my Aunt Margaret Santos Hood, was extremely involved
and did much to help out the family. There were only two girls in the family and five
boys. My Aunt Shirley spoke about Margaret taking her for her prom gown and her
wedding gown. There was a lot of coming together; wonderful people coming together
and helping one another to get through it all.
A: So, your father graduated high school. (P: Yes) And what year would he have
graduated?
P: 1940. Raymond Sullivan was the principal.
A: He was born in 1924?
P: He was born in 1923.
P: My father thought highly of Ray Sullivan.
A: Yes! So your father graduates from high school, but during high school he was
working at the business?
P: Yes.
A: Okay. And just went right into the business after high school, right?
P: No, after high school he wanted to learn welding. He heard how you could make a
lot of money as a welder in the Charlestown Navy Yard. So, he asked my grandfather if
he could borrow money to take a welding course. My grandfather wasn’t easy about
borrowing money. He set up terms for repayment. My father later paid him back for the
course, and he went to Charlestown Navy Yard every day with a bunch of guys. He
was making great money, but it was taking over his life. He had no life of his own, and
he was a young man trying to date my mother. Finally he decided to work for his father
short again. Soon the war escalated, and he was young. He let some Marine
recruiters take him out to dinner and talked him into signing up. [Laughs] Soon after
he was in an historic invasion, the Liberation Day invasion of Guam. The invasion was a
day filled with explorations and mortar shells. He was thrown into the air, slammed
down and was paralyzed from the waist down from spinal shock. He was sent to
Honolulu for rehab. He didn’t know if he’d walk again, but after many weeks he came
out of it. But all his life, he had terrible problems with his back and terrible migraines
from concussion. He was on many islands and turned twenty-one on Guadalcanal.
Dad went through a lot and was decorated for it. Because he was then unfit for combat
he was reassigned to kitchen duty at the Marine base in San Diego. His background
from Santos and Sons, where he learned meat cutting, determined his kitchen duty. It
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�was there that his Mexican marine buddy, Mr. Gonzales, taught my father how to make
great Mexican chili.
A: No kidding
P: He loved this duty. According to Dad, it was the best duty in the Marine Corps. He
said he remembered the Marines sending him home to Boston by train cross country.
He said I couldn’t believe how beautiful a country was at that time It made him think of
what I was fighting for. It was so beautiful. It was before we tore up the country with
highways and everything. More strip malls, multiple unit housing came later.
A: But this is what population will bring though.
P: You’re right, it’s sad but true.
A: Tell us when your father came home and returned to work for your grandfather.
P: Yes, he managed the business for my grandfather and was later considered the
company president.
A: Okay.
P: Dad worked on the administrative end of the business. Because of the GI Bill, he
took advantage of the Northeastern University Co-op Program. It was perfect for him,
because when it was time to fulfil the work requirements, he did so by managing his
father’s business. His work requirement would be for a couple of weeks, and then he
would take the train into Boston to Northeastern for a couple of weeks of classwork. The
train depot was conveniently located across from Santos and Sons, and from where
both my parents lived in the Veteran’s housing near the Holy Trinity Greek Church.
Everything was very close and walkable.
At Santos and Sons, Dad was the guy in the suit, while everyone else wore the long
white butcher coats. Years later, he and my mother talked about the economy changing
with the times. There was a need for more security and benefits in their lives.
Dad was very involved with local politics at the time. He was also politically involved
with the Kennedy’s, who were in the early stages of their political careers.
A: Before he helped out the Kennedys, did he help other candidates in the city?
P: Yes. Jim O’Dea [James L. O’Dea from Lowell, served as District Attorney for
Middlesex County]. Dad was treasurer of Jim O’Dea’s campaign for Middlesex District
Attorney. He was a very close friend of Jim O’Dea.
A: And how did they know each other?
P: They both lived in the brick Veterans Housing near the Holy Trinity Greek Church.
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�P: When Jim and his wife went out campaigning or to attend a political function my
father would babysit his boys. He’d just go over and say, Both were Marines in WWII.
Jim, brilliant man, was actually a Japanese interpreter. He graduated from Notre Dame
and went on to earn a law degree from Harvard. And he was just an absolutely brilliant
man.
A: He should have been governor.
P: He could have been. The Kennedys had plans for him to run for Governor.
A: But [laughs]
P: His demise was related to the morality of the times. We now we have a president
[Donald Trump] who is married to wife number three, and having with multiple
relationships in his past. O’Dea’s political career came to an end when news of an
extra-marital affair was leaked to the press. The public lost an incredibly effective public
servant. My father spoke of the Kennedys priming him for governor. They were
looking at him before Teddy. Teddy was still in the background.
A: And how did Jimmy O’Dea know the Kennedys?
P: He was a politician. It’s a network thing; Democrat, Irish Catholic, politician with
educational status, a distinguished WWII veteran, and an early Kennedy supporter.
A: I know there was some familial connection because we did it for the exhibit with the
Gargan Family who lived in Belvidere. They were related to the Kennedys.
P: Yes, they were cousins to the Kennedys.
A: Do you think there was a connection there for Jim O’Dea?
P: There could have been because Jim was in with the influentials in the city, especially
the Irish Catholic democrat faction. This faction was represented when the Lowell
Sun(11/22/2013) published a commemorative page on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s
assassination . Dad was in a photo seated next to JFK at a Knights of Columbus
breakfast. The Kennedy library carries this story in an oral interview with my father. In
this interview my father was asked what made him want to support this young political
figure John F. Kennedy. Dad related what he went through as a young combat Marine
during World War II serving the country. Dad said in addition to his impressive
educational credentials, Kennedy was a true patriot. His wealthy and powerful father
who could have gotten him out of serving during war time. But he risked his life like the
rest of us.” Dad said, “That caught my attention early on, because I had been there,
and I really admired that.” He said, “The Kennedys stood for the everyday guy, the
working guy, and I knew that was the kind of person I wanted to work for.”
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�A: Did your father do any outreach to the Portuguese community for these political
campaigns, whether Jim O’Dea or JFK, or?
P: I don’t know if he reached out to any specific group of people.
A: Okay. Do you know that JFK in the late [19]50s sponsored legislation to allow a
group of Portuguese immigrants to come to the U.S. because of the Azores volcano?
P: Yes, correct.
A: Do you know any stories connected to Lowell about that?
P: I know that my father was in contact with Father deSilva about immigration. Father
deSilva used to contact my father about different matters Dad was an effective liaison
between Father deSilva and Ted Kennedy in opening U.S. immigration for the next
wave of Portuguese after the volcano disaster in Falal. [The Azorean relief act,
sponsored by the Senator JFK, was passed during the Eisenhower administration.]
A: Do you ever hear of a person name Firmo Correa?
P: No.
A: Okay, he was one of these Portuguese guys that was kind of one of the godfathers
of the community. You know, he would have been twenty years older than your dad, or
something like that.
P: Yes, I’m sure if dad were here today, he’d probably say he knew this gentleman.
Considering the kind of support from the Kennedys, and the Portuguese community
being Democratic, I don’t believe that special efforts were needed to gain their support
for Kennedy.
A: Tell us the nature of the business from fifties into the sixties for Santos and Sons.
P: They were very good business years. Chinese Restaurants were among their best
customers.
A: Oh really?
P: Probably their best customer, was the old Cathay Garden on the Lowell-Lawrence
Boulevard. The owner, Frank Chin, had a daughter Theresa married a gentleman
name Bob Lu. They opened the Silver Dragon in Methuen. These customers insisted
on top quality. I will never forget, as a child, one Christmas Eve when my grandfather
called my father. He told Dad to take the Santos and Sons truck into Boston and to
accommodate Frank Chin. The Cathay Garden was nearly out of pork and Mr. Chin
demanded service. My mother was upset. But my father said that there was no
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�disappointing a customer like Frank Chin, who always ordered the best quality. The
restaurant underestimated their holiday orders, and they expected my grandfather to
make good. The Chinese people were superb customers., and grandpa enjoyed
excellent relationships with them.
But I’m sorry I sidetracked from your question.
A: No, no, that was a great story. The business continued to be good [19]50s into
[19]60s?
P: Yes, that’s where I sidetracked. Later in the 1970’s during the Nixon administration,
economic conditions, recession, and inflation occurred. Inflation was affecting all kinds
of restaurants in the area. Consequently, some weren’t paying their bills, and they were
closing.
A: Did your family sell the business at one point, or did you close it?
P: They struggled for a few years before they closed it down. They turned the
slaughterhouse over to my Uncle Kenny for a while longer. He had a house right on the
same street in Tewksbury.
A: What year did they close it roughly?
P: I’m going to say the later part of the [19]70s.
A: And so they sold the building?
P: It later became Geoffroy used cars.
Later Dad worked to get jobs for his brothers. His brother Roger became a federal meat
inspector., and his brother Freddie found work as a meat cutter, at Fort Devens. His
brother Eddie later worked at the Tyngsborough post office. My father went on with his
own career as Postmaster.
A: Obviously your father supported the Kennedys. Did he have a federal position
before he became postmaster of Lowell?
P: Yes, he worked for General Service Administration in Boston as the liaison officer.
That was the job title, Liaison Officer, GSA.
A: And when did that job come?
P: That would have been in the early 60’s.
A: After JFK was elected or before?
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�P: A little after. (A: Okay) But it was while JFK was president that he worked for GSA.
He was away from home a lot on job related travel. My mother wasn’t happy living that
way.
So, he started looking around at other possibilities, and he learned there was going to
be an opening for the postmastership of Lowell.
A: Was Charlie Gallagher the postmaster?
P: No, I believe it was Jim Gallagher. My dad had a very solid administrative
background between running my grandfather’s business and his GSA position. There
were many problems and challenges involved in running a family business. It never
ended. I remember one night, as a child, seeing Dad come home drenched from a
soaking rain. He and his brothers were out in the woods of Tewksbury because some
burglars had stolen my grandfather’s entire safe. They broke it open in the Tewksbury
woods. The police located it, but the cash was missing. My father was concerned
about all the wet business papers out in the woods. The business papers were very
important to them. So, Dad and one of his brothers were out in the soaking rain. They
were walking through the muck and the mire gathering the papers up. The number of
diverse miseries that went on with that job, along with other matters that, provided
background for future career challenges. he had to be accountable for. The co-op
program at Northeastern University, the diverse problems that went with the meat
business, hard times helping his brothers to obtain new employment and working for
General Service Administration, all provided experience for Dad in his future career. He
was also a people person. He thoroughly enjoyed people and got great satisfaction from
making a difference with people’s lives.
As a relative, bragging about your own sounds prejudiced. But it was Senator Daniel
Patrick Moynihan who said, “Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but they’re not entitled
to their facts.” I have many facts to back my opinion about my father’s life
A: When was your father sworn in as [Lowell] postmaster?
P: St. Patrick’s Day 1967. Ted Kennedy swore him in.
A: Okay.
P: My parents didn’t know it until the last minute that Kennedy planned to swear him in
as Postmaster. Dad had received a phone call from Frank O’Connor’s aide, Frank
O’Connor, an aide to Kennedy, and a good friend of my father. A new set of invitations
was required to replace the prior ones, which had not listed Kennedy. Children were
brought from schools to attend. They let kids out of school to attend. You would not
believe the mass attendance it generated. It’s now the Brad Morse Building, owned by
Middlesex Community College.
A: Correct.
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�P: Okay.
P: Dad stood on the staircase as Ted Kennedy gave a speech about him. There was
the usual Kennedy humor and charm. “On St. Patrick’s Day it’s my privilege to
introduce to you Ruth Cassidy’s husband.” This was Ted’s humorous way of introducing
Dad to the public. Then he told Dad that he hoped it would be a scandal-free
administration, because he didn’t want to hear stories about mail trucks delivering
Santos and Sons beef. Ted did his research on Dad’s background to create the humor.
What a snowy St. Patrick’s Day it was. Being sworn in as a postmaster was a a very
prestigious event then. Lyndon Baines Johnson was president at the time. When my
father got his official appointment certificate, it had the authentic Lyndon Baines
Johnson signature at the bottom.
A: Good.
P: Dad continually received promotions. He was the only Lowell postmaster who was
ever the Middlesex/Essex district manager. He kept going up the ranks. Because of his
involvement running the Santos family business, he didn’t enter federal government
until he was forty. Although he made good money, he wasn’t in the federal government
long enough to have a secure retirement that would benefit my mother, if something
happened to him. He felt some extra pressure to keep advancing himself so that my
mother would be secure.
This prompted his interest in a large promotional opportunity as District
Manager/Postmaster Honolulu Hawaii.
So that’s one of the things that got him looking for a promotion like Honolulu, [Hawaii],
because it was so significant.
A: And the job in Honolulu was for what exactly?
P: District Manager of the Pacific region and Postmaster of Honolulu. He was in charge
of the South Pacific islands. These included the Hawaiian Islands, Guam, and other
U.S. possessions and territories in the Pacific area.. They were the islands where he
served in combat with the Marine Corps. Events came full circle at the end of his life
came because of his jurisdiction as the Postmaster/District Manager. When he returned
home from war, he always talked about the beauty of the Pacific islands. He spoke of
his dream to return there in peacetime, never imagining the circumstances related to
his return. So it was a remarkable circle of life’s events.
P: In 1989 he and Mr. Peter Tsapatsaris, a fellow marine and Lowellian, attended the
45th Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam by the marines. The Governor put the
returning Marine liberators on floats in parades. They spoke to audiences of young
marines in large gathering places. He said it reminded him of and old Roman film
where returning conquerors were worshipped. It was an incredible experience. That
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�happened the year before he died. I always thanked God that he had that experience
before he left the earth. That was quite a gift before he departed in 1990.
A: Well Pat, any final thoughts or stories about your, the Portuguese side of your
family?
P: The Portuguese are a community whom the city should rightfully be proud of. It may
be a generalization, but I don’t think it’s inappropriate to say that in a quiet way. The
Portuguese are not egotistical, characteristically speaking They are unlikely to brag.
They recognize the goodness within their own community. They’re people of values.
There’s something very special about the community. Again, in the book Comunidade
so many, there are so many pieces of information that seemed to confirm these
impressions as a community. They pride themselves as being contributors. During the
Great Depression, they took pride in their personal independence and seemed to shun
outside assistance during other hard times as well. My Portuguese family was very
receptive to integrating with other kinds of people. They exhibited much warmth without
excessive sentimentality. I always felt very fortunate to have Portuguese relatives. I
love my family’s Irish side, but there was something very special about the Portuguese
family in my life.
I’ll share thought about my Irish mother who was one of nine Cassidy children, five girls
and four boys. Of the five girls, four married Portuguese. Some people thought that was
different for an Irish family.
But my grandmother who worked in the mill, was not an educated woman, as were
many people of her time. She was a simple woman with a lot of sense. From working in
the mills she had the opportunity to observe all kinds of people, and she always admired
the Portuguese people. She saw them as hard working and family oriented. She was
very approving of her daughters marrying Portuguese men. She saw them as good
providers, and good family men. The idea that they were also Catholic appealed to her
as well. It was about the quality of the person. and she saw much of this in the
Portuguese community. I personally feel that Portuguese family and community values
have, in many ways, transcended the generations in our city.
A: Okay. This was great. Thanks again Pat.
P: Thank you!
Interview ends
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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Fr. DeSilva
Margaret Santos Houde
Edward Kennedy
Albina Santos
Charles Santos, Jr.
Charles Santos, Sr.
Tony Santos
Eddie Silva
Manuel Silva
Margaret Silva
Shirley Santos Silva
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Patricia [Santos] Nickles Oral History Interview
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Azorean Americans
Irish Americans
Children of immigrants
Immigrant families
Entrepreneurship
Meat industry and trade
Politics and government
Civic leaders
Mills and mill-work
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Patricia (Santos) Nickles, February 25, 2017</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1950; daughter of Ruth E. (Cassidy) and Charles R. Santos Jr. (1923-1990); both born in Lowell. Ruth (Cassidy) Santos (b. 1923) was from an Irish-American Catholic family. Charles R. Santos Sr. (1901-1964) was born to a Portuguese immigrant family on Charles Street in Lowell. His father (Nickles great- grandfather) Alberto(Albert) Santos, born in the Azores (likely on the island of Graciosa), married Aldina Silva. Charles Sr. attended Lowell public schools but left upon completing elementary school. He married Mary Farley of Lowell(1903-1939)who was of Irish-Catholic heritage; worked a few years in a small foundry in the Ayer’s City section of Lowell, and purchased a house near the foundry on 32 Marriner Street. After employment as meat dept. manager at Saunders market on Gorham St. in Lowell, he began a successful family-run wholesale meat company, Charles Santos & Sons Inc. The first of seven children (two girls and five boys), Charles Jr. was educated in Lowell public schools. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1940, after which he worked briefly as a welder at the Charlestown (Massachusetts) Navy Yard. During WW II he left to servein the U.S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific. After sustaining combat injuries related to his participation in the liberation of Guam, he returned to Lowell, graduated from Northeastern University, and worked as manager/president in the family meat business. At this time(1950’s), Santos became involved in local Democratic politics. working as campaign treasurer for the campaign of Attorney James L. O’Dea for District Attorney of Middlesex County and then for John F. Kennedy’s Senatorial and Presidential campaigns. From 1962-1967 he was employed with General Services Administration as a liaison officer for the federal government. He was appointed U.S. Postmaster of Lowell in 1967, serving in this position for 12 years before promotion in 1979 to District/Mgr., Middlesex- Essex, Mass. He concluded his career with promotions to District Manager/Postmaster of Honolulu and the Pacific Region (1981), and then to District Manager of the Boston District (New England States) in 1983, before retirement in 1986.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali focuses almost exclusively on family history, primarily on the Santos (paternal) branch, with some reference to the Cassidy (maternal) family. It includes the experiences of marriage across ethnic lines, education, and occupational roles of family members in Lowell. It also includes information regarding the operation of business in a local family company, as well as that of local and state politics in the 1950’s and 1960’s, including the John F. Kennedy Senatorial and Presidential campaigns.</p>
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1918 Influenza
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Houde's Variety
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Prince Pasta Factory
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Santos and Sons Wholesale Meats
Silva Wallpaper and Paint
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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Alvaro Aguiar
Joseph Aguiar
Manuel Aguiar
Mary Aguiar
Manuel Barros
Rosaria Aguiar Barros
Rosaline Camara
Fr. DeSilva
Rita Freitas
Rita DaSilva Freitas
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Priscilla [Aguiar] Hilliard Oral History Interview
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<div id="cleantext">Oral History Interview with Priscilla Hilliard, March 2, 2017<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong> Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1947; daughter Mary C. (Freitas) and Alvaro Aguiar; the Freitas branch of the family from Azorean island of Faial; Aguiar branch from Madeira Island; Priscilla (Aguiar) Hilliard grew up on Central Street in the heart of Lowell’s major Portuguese neighborhood and was educated in Lowell’s public schools, graduated from Lowell High School, and later, Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts; during part of her school years she worked in the family’s bakery business on Central Street; and later she worked for Raytheon Corporation in a clerical position, followed by professional administrative positions with the Social Security Administration and with Health and Human Services in Boston; in more recent years she has worked as a real estate agent in the Greater Lowell Area.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong> Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; focuses on Priscilla (Aguiar) Hilliard’s Portuguese family and relatives; growing up in Lowell’s predominately Portuguese “Back Central” neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s; Portuguese food and culture in Lowell; religious activities at Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Back Central; small, family-run businesses (hair salon and bakery in Lowell); and Ms. Hilliard’s educational background and career.</div>
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Hilliard, Priscilla Aguiar
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Barry's Pastry Shop
Danny's Market
Dee's Debbie Shop
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Johnny Sousa's Barroom
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese Band Club (Lowell, M.A.)
Raytheon
Rita's Cards and Portuguese Gifts
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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Fr. DeSilva
Almerinda Gomes
John Leite
Denis Sousa
Lenny Sousa
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Luis Gomes Oral History Interview
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Luis Gomes, November 15, 2016</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born in the city of Horta on the Azorean island of Faial in 1930; Luis Gomes received his education in Horta’s schools and attended Escola Do Magistério to become a school teacher; at the age of eight he started playing the mandolin, at nine the violin, and at 10 the cornet, by age 14 he was making musical arrangements, scoring music from films at the local cinema for bands in the area to play; at the age of 16 he was invited to lead one of those bands; upon completing his schooling in Horta, Mr. Gomes taught school for three years on the island of S o Miguel before becoming a public servant for the police department and moving to Lisbon, Portugal, where in his spare time, he taught private school; at that time, Mr. Gomes also studied at the Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to further improve his skills as a professional musician, composer, conductor, and music arranger; he received a promotion and transfer to the Azorean island of Terceira to serve as a police office manager and in his free time he led two philharmonic bands and a small jazz orchestra at the American air base on Terceira.</p>
<p>In the late 1960s, Mr. Gomes, his wife and two daughters immigrated to the United States to the Lowell, area; initially he worked as an upholster for his brother-in-law in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and at night attended Boston State College, now part of UMass Boston, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Education; he subsequently helped start the bilingual program in Lowell’s public schools and taught in several of the city’s schools; at Lowell High School he taught Portuguese as a second language and, while, working as a teacher, Mr. Gomes founded two bands, his general business orchestra and the well-known Banda do Espírito Santo de Lowell, where he conducted, arranged, and composed music; he led this band until 2000 when he also retired from Lowell High School.</p>
<p>Mr. Gomes was regularly sought out by other Portuguese band leaders, throughout New England, to write and arrange music for their bands; he also performed a significant amount of volunteer work to help the Portuguese community and this ranged from taking new immigrants to hospitals and translating for them, to driving to families’ homes to discuss and encourage their children to go college; he currently volunteers as a director at the Lowell Portuguese Senior Center. In 2008, Mr. Gomes was awarded the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Portuguese Heritage Award by State Senator Steven C. Panagiotakos, for his “exemplary talent and civic commitment to the Portuguese American community.”</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; focuses on Mr. Gomes’ family background, his education and career, including his teaching in Lowell’s public schools and an early bilingual program in the city’s school system; much of the interview also covers Mr. Gomes’ training and career as a musician, composer, conductor, and arranger of Portuguese music in the Azorean islands, Portugal, and New England, as well as the influences that shaped Mr. Gomes’ interpretation of traditional Portuguese music.</p>
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Holy Ghost Band
Holy Ghost Park
Lithuanian Club
Lowell High School
Luis and the Armstrongs
Luis Gomes Orchestra
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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Sally Correia
Joe Costa
Fr. DeSilva
Mary Silva Hoga
Gladys Picanso
Andrew Silva
Danny Silva
Manuel Silva
Mary Avila Silva
Paul Silva
Paul Tsongas
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Beatrice [Silva] Hogan Oral History Interview #1
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Beatrice “Bea” E. (Silva) Hogan, August 6, 2016</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1942; daughter of Mary (Avila) and Manuel Silva (1895-1976); Manuel Silva (1895-1976) was born on the Azorean island of Graciosa and immigrated to the U.S. with his parents (Mary Bella (Cunha) and Andrew M. Silva) in 1906; Mary (Avila) Silva (1906-1975) was born in Lowell, but her parents were also from Graciosa; Beatrice (Silva) Hogan grew up in Lowell’s major Portuguese neighborhood, “Back Central,” and attended the city’s public schools, graduating from Lowell High School; she married Francis W. Hogan, of Irish and Portuguese ancestry, with the Portuguese side of the family also having the sir name Silva; following high school graduation she worked in a clerical job before having children and then returned to the workplace, managing the women’s department in a Sears department store.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; much of the focus is on family history of the Silva (Portuguese) and Hogan (Irish) families in Lowell, as well as growing up in the 1940s-1960s in Lowell’s “Back Central” neighborhood, the Portuguese businesses and culture in this locale, and in the occupations of the Silva family; there is also some information on the city’s ethnic diversity in various neighborhoods and in the public schools, and cultural differences within the Portuguese community, namely in relation to Madeirans and Azoreans. [For more on Beatrice (Silva) Hogan and these topics, see <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/33" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Oral History Interview with Beatrice “Bea” E. (Silva) Hogan, September 10, 2016.”</a>]</p>
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2016-08-06
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Hogan, Beatrice Silva
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Azorean Americans
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese language
Cultural assimilation
Children of immigrants
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Lowell (Mass.)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
São Miguel (Azores)
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Catholic Youth Organization
Couples Club
Dona Maria Amélia Society
Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Holy Name Society
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Pioneer Quality Market
Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, M.A.)
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
Saint Anthony's Feast
Tyler Street
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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Sally Correia
Joe Costa
Fr. DeSilva
Fr. Glen
Fr. Gomes
Fr. Hughes
Fr. Silva
Deolinda Mello
Joe Mendonca
Gladys Picanso
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Beatrice [Silva] Hogan Oral History Interview #2
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Beatrice “Bea” E. (Silva) Hogan, September 10, 2016</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1942; daughter of Mary (Avila) and Manuel Silva (1895-1976); Manuel Silva (1895-1976) was born on the Azorean island of Graciosa and immigrated to the U.S. with his parents (Mary Bella (Cunha) and Andrew M. Silva) in 1906; Mary (Avila) Silva (1906-1975) was born in Lowell, but her parents were also from Graciosa; Beatrice (Silva) Hogan grew up in Lowell’s major Portuguese neighborhood, “Back Central,” and attended the city’s public schools, graduating from Lowell High School; she married Francis W. Hogan, of Irish and Portuguese ancestry, with the Portuguese side of the family also having the sir name Silva; following high school graduation she worked in a clerical job before having children and then returned to the workplace, managing the women’s department in a Sears department store.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>This is the second of a two-part interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; much of the focus is on Lowell’s “Back Central” neighborhood in the 1940s-1960s, its businesses, culture, and prominent Portuguese families, as well as religious practices in the parish of St. Anthony Catholic Church, and the related religious societies; the city’s ethnic diversity in the post-World War II period; and cultural differences within the Portuguese community, namely in relation to Madeirans and Azoreans; and marriage across ethnic lines. [For more from Beatrice (Silva) Hogan on other topics related to Lowell’s Portuguese community, see <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/32" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Oral History Interview with Beatrice “Bea” E. (Silva) Hogan, August 6, 2016.”</a>]</p>
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2016-09-10
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English
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Hogan, Beatrice Silva
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Azorean Americans
Portuguese language
Cultural assimilation
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Women in community organization
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Lowell (Mass.)
Terceira Island (Azores)
São Miguel (Azores)
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Dona Maria Amélia Society
Feast of the Holy Ghost
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International Institute
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Portuguese Band Club (Lowell, M.A.)
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
Memórias – Preserving the Stories of
Lowell's Portuguese Community
Oral History Interview with Dimas Espinola, October 19, 2017
Biographical Note:
Born on the Azorean island of Terceira, in the village of Biscoitos, in 1950; Dimas Espinola
immigrated with his family to the United States in the late 1960s, settling in Lowell’s “Back
Central” (predominately Portuguese) neighborhood; his father, formerly a furniture maker in
Biscoitos, obtained a job as a loom fixer in the Wannalancit Mills; his mother worked as a
dressmaker; Mr. Espinola received his formal education in schools on Terceira and, upon
arriving in Lowell, he secured a work permit and, at nearly 17 years of age, he was employed in
a manufacturing job in the Paris shoe factory on Bridge Street; at the same time Mr. Espinola, a
communicant at St. Anthony’s Church, began working closely with the pastor, Rev. John F.
Silva; among his activities was translating English for Portuguese members of the community,
which included various issues affecting the neighborhood, including a state-proposed extension
of the Lowell Connector highway that threatened many homes and businesses in the “Back
Central” neighborhood; in addition to his community activism and work with the church, Mr.
Espinola also became involved with the Portuguese-American Center (and its soccer team), as
well as the Holy Ghost Society; he remained in the shoe industry for many years, becoming a
foreman and factory manager.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by consulting historian Gray Fitzsimons; a large part of this interview
focuses on the organized opposition (and Mr. Espinola’s role in this opposition) to the Lowell
Connector highway extension in the early 1970s and the threat of demolition of a large section of
the “Back Central” neighborhood; it also contains some information on the family background of
Mr. Espinola, the family’s immigrating from the Terceira to the United States, the working lives
of the Espinola family in Lowell’s shoe factories in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as observations
on the various businesses and cultures that would have been gravely impaired had the highway
extension been constructed. The interview concludes with a discussion of the Carnation
Revolution in April 1974 and Mr. Espinola’s observations on the changes in attitudes toward
mainland Portugal among Azoreans compared to those of Portuguese in the United States.
INTERVIEWEE: DIMAS ESPINOLA
INTERVIEWER: GRAY FITZSIMONS
D=DIMAS
G=GRAY
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�G: All right. We are recording here. So it’s Thursday, October 19th, and I’m here with Dimas
Espinola. And thank you Dimas again for joining me here.
D: Sure.
G: Just a few questions. First of all just a little bit about your background. Where were you
born and what year?
D: I was born in the Azores Island, Terceira specifically, a little village called Biscoitos. In
English, biscuits. [Both laugh] But it was one of the, probably one of the busiest seaports,
fishing ports in the island.
G: I see, okay.
D: Yah, it’s in the northern part of the island.
G: Yah, what year were you born?
D: I was born in 1950
G: Okay. You and I are about the same age. And then so when and why did you come to the
U.S.?
D: We came to the states in [19]67, 1967. My, one of my uncles, my father’s brother petitioned
the whole family. He had finally become an American citizen. He was living in the country. He
was living here. He first started living in Lowell and then he moved out to California. And
because the lady that he had, the lady that he married was from Lowell.
G: Yes, yes.
D: So you know, they were living in back of, on Summer Street.
G: Yes, Summer Street. Okay.
D: By the South Common.
G: But they went to California for a short time?
D: Yah, they went to California and then from there (--)
G: Do you know where in California they were?
D: San Jose.
G: Okay, San Jose.
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�D: And they settled, they’ve been there. He’s still alive. He’s still there.
G: Oh, he’s still there?
D: He’s still there.
G: Okay, but he was here when your family came over, correct?
D: No, no, he was in California already.
G: Oh he was?
D: Yah. He came to the states maybe in late [19]50s?
G: Okay.
D: Late [19]50s and then he moved up to California at the beginning of the [19]60s. Because
we came and he was already gone.
G: Okay. So did he come to the U.S. as part of that legislation that freed up immigration from
Portugal, from the Islands?
D: No. He came (--) We do have relatives that came from that time, from the [Capelhinos]
volcano [eruptions in 1957-58].
G: Yes.
D: But they went to Peabody. They were on my paternal grandmother’s side. Her brothers
settled in Peabody. And my uncle was (--) It started (--) There was my grandfather’s sister,
paternal grandfather’s sister somehow came to the states, (G: Okay) and came to Lowell and she
settled here. And of course in the community you know everybody. She was this girl, at the
time blonde, beautiful and so was my uncle, you know. So they start writing each other. You
know, my uncle became friends with the family. They started writing letters back and forth.
And all of a sudden she ends up in a trip over there to the village where we lived. (G: Yes) And
they got, and then they decided to get married. They got married and started (--)
G: Yes, they got married over there?
D: Yah, she got married over there. I was the chaperone. They stayed at (--) I was I think, I
don’t know, five years old at the time. And every place they went I had to go with them.
[Laughs] And they got married, and she petitioned him. So he stayed behind.
G: Got you. And she came back to Lowell.
D: She came back to Lowell.
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�G: Petitioned and he came over and joined her.
D: He joined her. Usually I think in those days it took about two years for a husband.
G: Oh wow, two years.
D: Like it took my parents five years waiting time. [Comment unclear]
G: Yes. So why didn’t your family move to California as opposed to moving to Lowell?
D: Because my mother, my mother’s two aunts living in Lowell. My maternal grandmother had
two sisters that came over in 1910 to work in the mills in Lowell. (G: Okay) So they grew up
here. You know, they came at a young age. And they married and they settled here. One lived
in Lowell. One lived in Dracut. So, and my mother used to exchange letters with all of them,
with the both of them. And so she decided to stay here, because she kind of got, so especially
the one that she got to know just through the, through the letters, you know, by correspondence.
G: So, and what did they, what did your parents do when they arrived in Lowell? For
employment?
D: I think they both (--) See in those days you had to have a job guarantee. And then my uncle
was responsible for whole family for five years.
G: Yes, even though he was in California.
D: Even though he was in California. He had to sign all that paperwork and everything went
through the consulate like it does today. I think they worked for (--) Because I came six months.
They came in January. I came in July. (G: Okay) But they started off like in the shoe factories.
And then my mother went to Nathan Solomon right down the street here.
G: Bridge Street.
D: No, no, right here at the foot of, at the foot (G: Of John Street) right after the Bridge on the
left there. That was Nathan Solomon.
G: Yes, okay.
D: Later Pajama Factory. And my father worked for Wannalancit Textile.
G: He worked at Wannalancit? Okay.
D: Yah, he was a loom fixer.
G: Oh no kidding. That’s a highly skilled job.
D: Yah, he was a furniture maker in the old country.
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�G: Oh, okay. Okay. Well that’s interesting.
D: So he picked it up pretty good.
G: So how many years did he work at the Wannalancit?
D: Most of his life.
G: Did he?
D: Yah, most of his life until they kind of phased down.
G: And how long did your mother work at Solomon?
D: Until she retired.
G: Wow. And you said, did they work in a shoe factory initially?
D: I think they worked at Grace Shoe, because when I came, when I got here in July they were
already at these jobs. So they just like a try-out.
G: Okay, got you. Got you. Okay.
D: First thing, yah.
G: All right. And so, you went to public school in Lowell then.
D: No, I went to night school. I just went to night school just to (--)
G: Were you educated back in Terceira?
D: Yes, I went to school in Terceira. When I came I had what it was called, at the time it was
called an associate’s degree (G: Yes) if you compared the (--)
G: Got you, yes.
D: I learned English and French. I had three years of English when I come over.
G: Your English is very good.
D: Not in those days, because I was afraid to speak, because we learned the English, English is
(--) The Queen’s English, the pronunciation is different. So you know.
G: Exactly, yes.
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�D: It was funny, because when I started working they used to tell me to do stuff and I’d do it. I
could hear him, “How does he understand everything we say, but he doesn’t say anything back?”
And I finally told this, my fellow there, because everybody was either Portuguese, Greek, or
Puerto Rican. That was the nationalities that we had around in Lowell.
G: Of course.
D: Or Polish. And he was a Greek fellow, and I told him, “You guys will make fun of me if I
talk, you know. My accent is different than yours.” He said, “No, don’t worry. Go ahead.”
[Comment unclear].
G: So you were about seventeen when you came here?
D: Sixteen, sixteen and a half.
G: Sixteen, and so what did you do when you first arrived in July?
D: I went to work. I got my worker’s, you needed a working permit.
G: Yes, yes.
D: And I went to work in a shoe factory.
G: Oh you did? Grace or Carroll Shoe?
D: No, Paris. That was on Bridge Street. It’s the last one that is being remodeled down there.
G: Yes.
D: That building down at the end.
G: Okay. And how long did you work there?
D: Thirteen years I worked there.
G: Fifteen?
D: Thirteen. The best job of my life.
G: No kidding.
D: I was young. It was unbelievable. It was good.
G: What sort of work did you do in the factory?
D: I started working as a machine operator. And then I got, became like assistant supervisor.
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�G: Yes. Were there a lot of other Portuguese working there?
D: Yah, at the time yes. We had like, Paris Shoe had like four hundred employees at the
highest. And I say close to half of them were Portuguese.
G: Wow, yah. So there was still a number of shoe companies operating back then too, including
Carroll Shoe? Did you (--)
D: One year (--) One day I worked in three places. I quit Paris. I went down to I forget the
name of one. Where Notini’s was there was, the latest machinery and everything. So I quit Paris
at eleven. I went over there and I worked until 1:30. And I said, “I can’t go home. My mother
is going to be upset.” And so I went the Carroll Shoe. I knew the (--) Because you knew all of
these supervisors. They weren’t around. And I worked there until 6:00. And the next Saturday I
went. He told me, “Do you want to come in tomorrow?” So I did. Then I come home. My
mother said, “Oh, this gentleman called.” She couldn’t hardly say his name, which was the
owner of the Paris Shoe and “He wants to talk to you. He’s waiting for you.” So I called him
back. He asked me what happened. I told him. He says, “Come back Monday.”
G: So they hired you back?
D: He hired me right on, he took me right back.
G: I understand that Carroll Shoe employed a lot of Portuguese as well.
D: It did, but then they were smaller than Paris.
G: Yah, right.
D: Grace Shoe has the largest. They had a lot of Portuguese people working there.
G: Yes, maybe more percentage-wise of Portuguese at Carroll then (--)
D: Then at Paris because we had a lot of Greek immigrants working there too. It was like half.
Almost (--) And we had French Canadians, you know, from Little Quebec [unclear].
G: Of course, yah.
D: You know, in those days that was the way you would talk to each other. There was no
political way. It’s the way it was and we all loved it you know.
G: Yah. Well let me ask you. This is interesting, because you were involved in the Connector
opposition. In the late [19]60s the city planners with the state proposed extending the Lowell
Connector to basically smash through Back Central.
D: It would have done that, yah.
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�G: And taken out a lot of houses.
D: Over 400.
G: Yes, which would have virtually destroyed the Portuguese (--)
D: Yah, it would have gone through King Street, the back (--) By the parking lot of Saint
Anthony’s Church all the way to Elm Street. It would have taken that whole block all the way
down to Lawrence Street.
G: Right. Right. So let me ask you though, why did you become involved in objecting to this?
D: Oh, at the time I was involved in quite a few things. I was, you know, involved in the
church, you know, for affairs, helping out. And I was at the, starting at the Portuguese-American
Center with the Soccer Team. And the reason I got involved was mostly to speak to the
Portuguese people. You know, they would have these meetings, because the real movement
beyond that was like the, were like the Father John Silva, who was the pastor.
G: So he was one of the major (D: Yes) opponents in (D: Definitely. Oh yes, he was)
organizing in Back Central.
D: Yah, and the, I would say the first and second generation of Portuguese people living in
Lowell, you know, the ones that the grandparents and parents came in the early 1900s.
G: Yes, and owned property, correct?
D: Yah, and owned property. At the time the Connector was there, now these people were like
leaders, the kind, the community, the foundation of the community.
G: Yes, kind of like the community elders, right?
D: Exactly, because they had organized the social clubs, the Portuguese-American Center, the
Civic League, the Holy Ghost Society.
G: Yes.
D: The church, and we kind of just came in and then the population, the community started
growing, but they were the, the focal point.
G: Yes, they were the major force.
D: Yah, because the Portuguese people per say, especially the immigrants, they didn’t care
much about politics.
G: Ah huh. Yes, I wanted to ask you about that.
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�D: They never cared, and still to this day they don’t care about politics, because, and I say
because they didn’t live the experience of the people after the revolution. Their relatives that
were in the state back and never made it here, (G: I see) you know, that’s totally different people
than the way we were brought up.
G: This was the revolution in Portugal in the [19]20s.
D: No, no, no, in [19]74.
G: In [19]74. Okay.
D: Most of the Lowell Community came on the late [19]60s early [19]70s, before the revolution.
G: Yes, yes.
D: So they didn’t, politics was nothing to them.
G: I see. They stayed out of politics.
D: They stayed out of politics. They came here just to try to go to work, send the kids to school,
which was hard for everybody because there was no bilingual thank God, no bilingual. They
learned English.
G: Yes. So, but let me ask you, why do you think this older generation was more politically
active? The older generation?
D: Because they were born here. A lot of them were born here.
G: I see. Okay.
D: They were born here, the people. They were like, I would say second generation. Their
grandparents came in the late 1800s. Then they have children and (--).
G: So they became somewhat accustomed to local politics. And so they (--)
D: That’s what they were, yah.
G: Well speaking of involvement in local politics, this is Manuel Figuera.
D: Yah, he was, he was, on the Connector he was tireless this gentleman, tireless.
G: How do you pronounce his name?
D: Figuera. Manuel Figuera.
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�G: Was he also known as Raymond, because I’ve heard him called Raymond for some reason.
D: No.
G: No.
D: I think his son was Raymond.
G: Oh okay. Okay.
D: I know he has a grandson that’s Raymond. I don’t know if his son is Raymond.
G: Okay.
D: But he’s Manuel Figuera, yes.
G: And what do you remember about him?
D: Great man. (G: Yes) Stubborn, but a great friend. Yah, very stubborn.
G: It’s interesting.
D: [Figuera’s view was] “I mean it’s my way. This is the way we should do it. That’s the way
we got to do it.” We love, everybody loved him.
G: Was he a fluent English speaker, or with some difficulty?
D: Yes! No, no, no, he could speak English. He knew all the politicians. He knew everybody
downtown this guy.
G: And he was from Madeira?
D: Madeira, yes. He knew everybody. Anybody that had power in Lowell he knew him.
G: Yes. Yah. Okay. All right. Now interestingly I have a photograph. It’s hard to see really,
but a picture of you. And here you are at a meeting about the Connector and you are, you were
the translator.
D: Yes. I was (--) This was at the, if I’m not mistaken, this was at the Rogers School.
G: Okay, okay.
D: At the Rogers School. The place was packed. Packed, packed, packed.
G: Yes, and City Councilor Brenden Fleming was there. Yes, yes.
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�D: Yah, and yes, I was the translator, yah, because as they spoke I was telling the Portuguese
people what they were saying and what was going on.
G: Of course. Now the other thing is this is interesting. Dimas, this is a letter, this is an article
you wrote for the Lowell Communicator. The newspaper the Communicator? I don’t know if
you (--) Do you remember writing this?
D: 1972.
G: Yah. It’s basically to, obviously to inform Portuguese speaking people whose English was
limited, the issues about the Connector. I don’t read Portuguese. So I don’t know (--)
D: No, no, do you mind if I (--) I don’t recall this, The Communicator. I don’t even (--)
G: Okay, what does the article say?
D: The article says, it’s just putting, letting everybody know that there’s going to be a decision
made on the 27th of June.
G: Yes, 1972?
D: 1972, about the Lowell Connector.
G: Yes.
D: Everybody (--) We (--) Everybody thinks it’s going to be a “no go”. The decision will be not
to proceed with the, with the Connector. This is what the people want. We don’t want this
Connector to be built.
G: Yes.
D: And then who’s pushing for this? Certainly not the people in the area or in the
neighborhood.
G: Yes.
D: But most likely the business people downtown in Lowell, there’re the ones that are probably
pushing for this because they don’t care about the Lowell people up in, you know, up in this area
who work. At this time they were already buying a lot of properties, ’72, (G: Right), because as
I say (--)
G: The city was buying property.
D: No, no, the Portuguese people.
G: Yes, okay.
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�D: The Portuguese people were buying, because they came, they rent, or they live with relative
for like a week or two and then they find an apartment. As soon as they got a job they found an
apartment.
G: And then they would have saved up money and buy property.
D: Yah, it usually would take about a couple of years for them to buy a home.
G: I see, okay, because Back Central was affordable back then, right?
D: Yah, my parents bought a one-family for $5,000 while they could have bought a two family
next door for $3,000. [Laughs]
G: Yes, yes. Right, right.
D: Yah, yah, we work very hard for everything that we have. And it doesn’t matter if we own,
or we’re renters, and even not be an American citizen, we can’t vote, but that doesn’t mean that
we can’t, you know, speak our minds.
G: All right. So that’s an important point you were trying to get across to the people in the
neighborhood.
D: Yah, just for the people yah.
G: Yah, right. So even if they didn’t own property they had a stake in this.
D: Yes, because we lived in the area and we took care of the property.
G: Right, it was their lives right?
D: Yes, we don’t want to go through. No one wants to go through, (G: Right) through the same
hardships that we did when we first arrived here, you know, with not, not speaking English and
not knowing anything. (G: Right) Because if the roads went through it would destroy the
community and everybody would have to start (--)
G: Start over again.
D: Start all over again.
G: Right, right. Okay. So that’s what you were writing about.
D: Yah, that’s what, this is what I’m re-translating.
G: Yes, exactly.
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�D: That we all have our lives organized. We lived next to our families and friends, and if we
wanted to go to the store, we just walked down the store. Everything is around us. Are we going
to let all of this go because of the rich, rich people that wants to take advantage of the lower
people, you know, today is the 1%.
G: Interestingly Dimas you put it in class terms. You kind of put it in part in terms of social
class.
D: Yah, kind of now reading this, yah, I think I did.
G: Did you read Karl Marx when you were a young student?
D: No, I did not. No. No, I did not. No, I did not.
G: But it is interesting that you did point out that the wealthy could benefit from this at the
expense of the poor people, or the less wealthy I should say.
D: Now we shouldn’t let this happen, because if they, if they build the road a lot of people will
be out of housing. They will lose their homes and they will have hard times probably finding a
house. They wouldn’t have probably hard time finding a house, but a lot of people didn’t have
cars. So that would have made their lives more difficult, because in those days everybody
walked downtown to work.
G: Yes.
D: And then their way up they all stopped at the Pioneer Market. They did the food shopping
there for the week. They’d cash their checks there. And Pioneer Market delivered. Two hours
later, an hour later they have the food there like three vans going out all of the time.
G: Yes, where was the Pioneer Market?
D: At the corner of Charles and Central, (G: Okay) where, right across the monument there.
G: Yes, what’s there today? Do you know?
D: Pioneer Liquors. A liquor store.
G: Oh okay. Okay, but that was like the key grocery store.
D: That was it. That was it. That was a small Stop &, there was a Stop & Shop in the plaza.
G: Yah, yah.
D: Where there’s a fitness center. That used to be a Stop & Shop there (G: Okay) but
everybody just walked up, stopped at the Pioneer Market, do their shopping there. They had full
(--) I was (--) If you’ve heard about the first DeMoulas Store? It was even smaller than that, but
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�they had butchers there. They had everything. Everything was fresh. They had the best fruit in
the city.
G: No kidding.
D: Yah, and they cut, they cut your steaks the way you want. If you didn’t like what you see on
the counter, you’d say, “I want it this way. I want it that way.”
G: Wow.
D: They spoke Portuguese. They were Portuguese.
G: Yes. They were Portuguese, the owners, right?
D: Yah, yah. In fact one of them, Paul Silva, he might remember a lot of this stuff too. He runs,
he owns the Whipple Café.
G: Café? He does?
D: Yah, him and his wife worked at the Pioneer, at the Pioneer Market.
G: Oh no kidding.
D: And when they finally decided they couldn’t compete. Everybody started getting [unclear]
and everybody started going out.
G: Yes, yes.
D: And the kids, they didn’t want it. It was him and his brothers. His brother passed away,
Danny. And then he, he bought the Whipple and he’s been there ever since.
G: Okay. I’ve been there. I didn’t know he owned it.
D: Yah, Paul. Great guy, him and Nancy. Great couple, great family. You know, isn’t it true
that human beings have more value than the cars that go across the (--)
G: Yes, is that what you wrote?
D: Yah, it’s right here. [Reading] What can we do about this? Do the same thing that we did a
week ago. Let’s all go downtown to the meeting on the 27th when it’s going to be decided if not,
if the Connector is going to be built.
G: Right, right.
D: Let’s all go down there. Let’s bring our friends, our families.
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�G: It goes on down here.
D: Yah. We all need to go down there so we can help and stop this. I used to call it highway
sometimes, the Connector to be built. Our lives are set. Hear our families again. This is about
the same thing kind of, copies. [Reading from documents] Yah, they kind of overlapped.
G: Let me ask you though, is there anything else you want to say about the article and any other
points you want to make?
D: No, that’s about (--) You got the idea of what I said.
G: Yah, very good. And so apart from Manuel Figuera, were there other men or women? Were
there any women who were involved that you recall in this opposition? Was it mostly, you
know, guys like Manuel?
D: No, it was Manuel, but it was Eddie Santos, Joseph Camara. Mostly like the Board of
Directors of the Portuguese American Center.
G: Okay. Okay.
D: Women wise I would say Gladys Picanso, because she was very well-known and respected in
the community too.
G: Yes. Yes. So she was a key figure too in the opposition.
D: Yes, but the leadership came from Father Silva.
G: Yes, it really did. It came from Father Silva?
D: Yes it did. He pushed. He pushed. He didn’t like to be upfront. Like I’m pretty sure I did
this because of him. He told me to do it.
G: Oh no kidding.
D: Because he wouldn’t do it.
G: I see. Okay.
D: He was there.
G: He was there?
D: He was there.
G: But he wanted you to be (--)
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�D: Yah, because I was the one, at that time I was already doing the readings in Portuguese at
mass.
G: Oh.
D: Because he started late, that you know, the second council that allowed the (--) To do, say the
mass in Portuguese, he started it late. He started in the early [19]70s.
G: Oh, okay.
D: He used to do everything in Latin. [Both laugh]
G: Before Vatican II.
D: Yah, before Vatican II. And it was, it was kind of, in the late 60s it was kind of tough for
him to change, but he changed.
G: Yes. That’s interesting.
D: Yes, yes.
G: Yah, so he changed.
D: Yah, he changed.
G: But you helped (--)
D: I would say he was the (--) For the neighborhood there, him and other, and other leaders of
like other communities, because there was a lot of Polish people around that area too.
G: Yes, there were Polish people, yes.
D: And he was kind of the central (--) At any social organization, like there was the Italian Club
there too in Central Street.
G: Yah, right.
D: All those people, everybody just kind of, the whole neighborhood got together.
G: Yes, okay. Okay. Well that’s interesting, because I wanted to ask you too, it really, it
required (--) To defeat the Connector it required (--)
D: One of the individuals that did the most to stop the Connector was Ray Rourke. I don’t (--) I
think he was a City Councilor at that time.
G: Yah, okay. So I was going to say it required alliances across ethnic identity right?
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�D: Yes. Mr. Rourke, even more than Father Silva, was the big pusher too, the big force behind
the “Stop the Connector” movement.
G: Do you remember, was Dick Howe Sr. also? Do you remember him as being involved in
fighting?
D: I don’t even (--) Was he in the city council in those days?
G: He was.
D: I, see that, I (--)
G: But you remember Rourke and Brenden Fleming.
D: I remember, not as much to the Connector now that I see his picture here.
G: Yah, okay, but (--)
D: I don’t even know. Was he a city councilor?
G: He was a city councilor, yah.
D: Because I know he was at one of the big affairs for our church. He was the mayor.
G: But that’s interesting. You said that Rourke was really (--)
D: Ray Rourke.
G: Yah, you remember him as being (--)
D: Mr. Rourke was, because he lived in Back Central Street, Lawrence, somewhere on
Lawrence Street back there.
G: Okay.
D: He was, and he knew all the, Eddie Santos, and the Camaras, and the Costas.
G: Oh okay.
D: He knew all of these people knew him.
G: Yes.
D: And he was, he was the force. The force [unclear].
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�G: So in some ways he represented the Portuguese Community in city council.
D: Yes he did. Yah, he kind of did, yah. And after him was [city council member an later
mayor of Lowell] Tarsy Poulios you know. [Both laugh]
G: Yes, I remember Tarsy.
D: Yah, but Mr. Rourke was up to the [Sampson] Connector Mr. Rourke was always involved.
In fact they tried a second time to put the Connector through.
G: Yes. Yes.
D: And Mr. Rourke at that time, I think he was Secretary of Transportation. And he had enough
pull then to squash the Lowell politicians that wanted that done.
G: Yes.
D: I don’t recall who the governor was, but I remember them, he’s coming to one of our
meetings to say, “Do not worry. It will never go through this community again. I’ll make sure
of that.”
G: Okay.
D: With the governor [Francis Sargent]. (G: Interesting, yah) Somehow, whatever they did, I
don’t know. Everything has to be legal. Forget the Connector.
G: It must have been Dukakis right, or maybe even before Dukakis?
D: Probably before Dukakis.
G: Okay. All right. Let me ask you, just to shift gears a little bit, two things. One, you don’t
remember the Lowell, the Communicator Newspaper, do you, or who?
D: No, I really don’t. I don’t.
G: Okay. That’s okay.
D: But in those days I already read (--) I used to buy the paper every day, because that’s how I
picked, you know.
G: Well you know what? Interestingly, this was (--)
D: Better my English with that.
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�G: This was often in stark opposition to the Lowell Sun. That’s one of the interesting things
about his newspaper. Virtually everything the Lowell Sun supported (D: Oh, they were against)
the Communicator opposed.
D: I’m surprised I don’t have any copies. I was looking through my attic. I don’t have any of
that stuff, because at the time I was living at my parents’ house. So I couldn’t carry everything
with me all of the time.
G: I’d be glad, if you want I’ll make you a (--) I’ll send you (--) I sent your sister a file, a pdf
electronic version of this. I can send it to you if you’d like?
D: Yah, if you don’t mind.
G: I’d be glad too, sure.
D: I’d appreciate it.
G: So the other thing is, again, changing gears a little bit. You were a young man at this time.
And as far as you and your others of your generation, what did, did Lowell have much to offer in
terms of jobs, or finding a partner, or you know, dating, or?
D: There were lots of jobs. I mean there were factories everywhere. There were like six or
seven shoe factories. The dress factories. Shirt factories. Pajama factories. The Wannalancit
Textile, Lowell Manufacturing. There was the Commodore Food, processing food, fish.
Commodore Foods processed fish.
G: Yes, yes.
D: Like Talapia, you know, fish would come in. They’d process all of that. (G: I see) Can it
and everything. There was lots of jobs. And you know, there was the church, which is you
know, if you look around Lowell, where there is a church there is a community.
G: Yes.
D: And we were lucky enough that the people before us, when we came our church was built.
social clubs were built. The Holy Ghost [Park] was built. And everybody hung around together.
There would be a couple of affairs at the Holy Ghost, and that was it. That’s what everybody
did.
G: Apart from the Lowell Connector, the opposition to that, were there other issues in Lowell at
the time that you were involved with, or that the younger generation was active in to make some
change in the city, or not so much?
D: No, not at all. Like I said before, we never got into politics.
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�G: Okay, because I was going to ask you. Interestingly enough, in the early [19]70s just about
the same time there was a movement to have rent control in Lowell. And you know, obviously
this affected a lot of lower income people and there were, you know, a number of large land
holders in Lowell, landlords, Greek, Portuguese, the Silva Brothers.
D: Yah, Silva Brothers owned a lot of (--)
G: Of course Louis Saab.
D: Yah, they owned a lot of property.
G: They owned a lot of property and you can imagine they fought this initiative tooth and nail.
D: Again, people might, we might have been involved at that time if it’s what you say, late
[19]70?
G: This was like [19]70-74.
D: [19]70 to (--) At that time again, it would have been through the same process, through the
Eddie Santos, the Santos Family, the Costas, the Camaras, you know, they were kind of (--) The
newer immigrants were getting involved. Little by little they were getting involved in this stuff,
(G: Okay) but they were never, we were never politically (--) We would do phone, phone banks
out of the Portuguese-American Center. We’d take turns like an hour every other day when
there were elections.
G: Oh really?
D: And call the people that, Portuguese people that would use the words citizens, that could vote
and remind them to vote.
G: I see. Now did they tend to be more Democratic than Republican, or?
D: Oh yah, they loved Kennedy. They loved Kennedy.
G: Of course. So they tended to be?
D: And they still to this day.
G: Yes.
D: To this day.
G: But those involved in making phone calls and things, they tended to be Democratic and not
Republican, is that?
D: I would say so.
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�G: Okay.
D: I would say most of them, yes. And if there was an issue that we wanted the, a city, probably
at that time we did call people just taking the list. Father [de]Silva would provide us the list of
people from the church and the club who’d have the membership. And you know, everybody
had a phone, and the phone was in the phonebook. So we just, you take that street, I take this
street and we can (--)
G: So for example, like a local thing like to improve a local school in Back Central, you might
get people to call?
D: Yes, because Camara, Joseph Camara, he’s still alive, he was a school teacher. (G: Yes,
yes) He was a school teacher. Eddie Santos was a mailman, you know, and Leo Sousa was a
mailman. And Mendes was a police officer, you know? So all of these people were the ones,
you know.
G: Yes. They knew how city hall worked. So yes.
D: And Mr. Vieira was the attorney. Everybody new Mr.Vieira because he spoke Portuguese.
His parents were from Madeira.
G: Yes, he was an important guy too, wasn’t he?
D: Yah, yah, because he, you know, as a community.
G: Let me ask you, did you (--) The only person, Portuguese person I found, I’m sure there were
others, but who supported this rent control was a fellow named Joseph Mello, Jr. Joe Mello, M E
L L O.
D: Joe Mello, or John?
G: Joe Mello. Joseph.
D: Joe.
G: Joseph. Well that’s his, you know, given name. But he was also the secretary of the Lowell
Central Labor Council, and he was the Head of the Clerks, the Local Clerks Union.
D: Those individuals didn’t hang around with us.
G: Okay. He would have been a bit older than you.
D: Yah, but he wouldn’t hang around with us.
G: Why do you say that?
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�D: Yah, there was, there was a lot of people that kind of (--) The community had kind of two
people. The people that went to church and hung around the church and welcome. Immigrants,
we had a hard time fitting into community. It wasn’t as easy just as walking in.
G: Interesting, yes.
D: I mean the church is fine, but then when you try to get into the organizations, that’s my land,
that’s my thing. I did this. I built this. What are you guys doing in here?
G: So it was harder to break in?
D: Yes, it was very hard. Very, very, very, hard.
G: Yah, right.
D: Very hard. I was lucky enough because of all the work I did through the church, you know,
teaching Sunday school, and getting involved in the festivities, and all that stuff.
G: Again, so even within the Portuguese Community it was hard to break in to some of those
established clubs.
D: Yah, but there was a lot of people that were born here wouldn’t care much for the
newcomers.
G: I see.
D: And I’m saying if this gentleman that you’re mentioning, he was a union guy. Forget it. He
wouldn’t (--) I don’t recall him. I know Mellos, but he wasn’t one of the neighborhood, you
know? He wasn’t one of us.
G: Well let me, just quickly about trade unionism, because you know, back in the 60s unions
were still relatively strong in Lowell.
D: Yah, I fought the union. Again, in Paris Shoe they tried to get in there.
G: Yes, yes.
D: And because of the large amount of Portuguese people we, they lost. They didn’t get in.
G: What role did the Portuguese people play in defeating the union dry?
D: I just told everybody that it was no good.
G: Okay, okay.
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�D: You don’t want that because you do what (--) You know, you pay them a fee.
G: Yes, a dues.
D: And you do what you’re told.
G: An annual dues, yes.
D: Yah, you know, you do what you’re told. You do what you’re told. You know, and it
doesn’t matter, you all make the same money. Nobody gets, nobody makes more money than
them.
G: What? Do you remember when was the union trying to break into the shoe factory?
D: Well they tried all of the shoe factories. (G: Yes) And I don’t know if Simon Shoe, if they
got into Simon Shoe, or Lowell Shoe. I don’t think they got into any shoe factory.
G: Yes.
D: But they were trying very hard at Paris, because they had a lot of employees.
G: Yes.
D: But they (--) I don’t recall the time but it’s probably at that same time that you, that you were
mentioning.
G: Let me ask you too, because of the you know, Salazar and then that regime was ousted, there
must have been (--) I gather that most of the Portuguese community were very glad to see him
out. Is that fair to say?
D: I don’t, no. I don’t think. No. The way the Portuguese people were brought up in our
country, you respect authority. You respect the people that are in charge. You respect your
elders. You respect the people in charge. We didn’t know any better. I mean it’s just like
growing up in Cuba and Castro. That’s what you know, that’s what it is.
G: I see.
D: And that’s what we knew. Because like when I lived overseas that was in the village, one of
the largest villages on the island, maybe four or five people had a radio. It was the rich people
that owned the vineyards or the, you know, the land, most of the land where they grew the corn
and the wheat.
G: Yes.
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�D: Those were the people that had radios. When my paternal grandfather passed away I guess
they split up whatever he had, and my father had enough money to buy a radio. So we bought a
Grundig. [Laughs]
G: What was it called?
D: A Grundig? G R U N D I G, (G: Okay) a Grundig. It was a German radio, short wave.
Short wave.
G: Grundig, yah, okay.
D: And when he came to the country he sold it for the same money that he bought it, that he
paid for it. That’s how good the thing was.
G: Yes.
D: He’d listen to music. Listen to the news.
G: Yah, but I gathered when Salazar was defeated, when he was ousted in the military
dictatorship group (--)
D: We, most of the Lowell Community had been out of there for ten years.
G: Yes, so did it mean as much then?
D: No.
G: No, it didn’t. Okay.
D: I mean I went back a year after the revolution in ’75. I had been here for nine or ten years. I
went back. I could not believe the way the kids that went to school with me, the way that my
uncles, the way that every kid spoke about politics. In one year those (--) And that one year of
the revolution, how the mentality of the person that couldn’t even read or write, how it changed.
G: How did it change?
D: Oh unbelievable. I mean they, they, because they wanted, they wanted everything now,
because you know, he was gone, Salazar. To them it was worth a lot more than to us here.
G: To people here, yes. Yes.
D: Because we, you know, we come here and we struggle here (--)
Interview ends
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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1985-2018
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Joseph Camara
Manuel Figuera
Fr. DeSilva
Eddie Santos
Paul Silva
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Dimas Espinola Oral History Interview
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Dimas Espinola, October 19, 2017</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born on the Azorean island of Terceira, in the village of Biscoitos, in 1950; Dimas Espinola immigrated with his family to the United States in the late 1960s, settling in Lowell’s “Back Central” (predominately Portuguese) neighborhood; his father, formerly a furniture maker in Biscoitos, obtained a job as a loom fixer in the Wannalancit Mills; his mother worked in a shoe factory; Mr. Espinola received his formal education in schools on Terceira and, upon arriving in Lowell, he secured a work permit and, at nearly 17 years of age, he was employed in a manufacturing job in the Paris shoe factory on Bridge Street; at the same time Mr. Dimas, a communicant at St. Anthony’s Church, began working closely with the pastor, Rev. John F. deSilva; among his activities was translating English for Portuguese members of the community, which included various issues affecting the neighborhood, including a state-proposed extension of the Lowell Connector highway that threatened many homes and businesses in the “Back Central” neighborhood; in addition to his community activism and work with the church, Mr. Dimas also became involved with the Portuguese-American Center (and its soccer team), as well as the Holy Ghost Society; he remained in the shoe industry for many years, becoming a foreman and factory manager.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
<p>Interview conducted by consulting historian Gray Fitzsimons; a large part of this interview focuses on the organized opposition (and Mr. Espinola’s role in this opposition) to the Lowell Connector highway extension in the early 1970s and the threat of demolition of a large section of the “Back Central” neighborhood; it also contains some information on the family background of Mr. Dimas, the family’s immigrating from the Terceira to the United States, the working lives of the Espinola family in Lowell’s shoe factories in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as observations on the various businesses and cultures that would have been gravely impaired had the highway extension been constructed.</p>
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Fitzsimons, Gray
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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2017-10-19
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Espinola, Dimas
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PDF
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English
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Text
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Espinola_OH
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Azorean Americans
Cultural assimilation
Civic leaders
Portuguese language
Factories
Community development, Urban
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Terceira Island (Azores)
Lowell (Mass.)
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DeMoulas Store
Lowell Connector
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Paris Shoe Factory
Pioneer Quality Market
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
Whipple Café
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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1985-2018
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Nomesia Iria Oral History Interview
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Immigrants
Factories
Women in community organization
Labor unions
Ethnic groups
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Nomesia Iria, April 18, 2018</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born on the Azorean island of São Miguel in 1953; Ms. Iria’s mother was a homemaker; her father worked as a chauffeur; similar to many children of this period, Ms. Iria attended public school through the fourth grade; eventually she married and had two children while living on São Miguel; in 1980 she, her husband, and two children immigrated to the United States, settling initially in New Bedford, Massachusetts; at the suggestion of her husband’s brother, who lived in Lowell and worked in a higher-paying electronics job, she and her family moved there; for a short time Ms. Iria commuted to Lawrence, Massachusetts, for a job in a shoe factory; however, upon obtaining a job in the Prince Pasta factory, which was located in South Lowell and had nearly 400 workers, the majority being Portuguese; she began working as a machine operator close to her home in the city’s “Back Central” neighborhood; owned by the Pellegrino family, Prince Pasta had a company union; in 1995 a group of Prince Pasta workers, including Ms. Iria, campaigned to affiliate with United Electrical Workers Machine of Workers of America (UE) and, in an intensely fought union election, the workers voted in favor of the UE; Iria was then elected chief steward; two years later the Pellegrino’s sold the company to the Ohio-based Borden Corporation; soon thereafter Borden cut a number of employee benefits and instituted a 12-hour work day; despite union concessions Borden suddenly closed the Lowell factory; Ms. Iria joined with other workers, as well as city and elected officials in an attempt to save the plant, but to no avail; she subsequently worked as an organizer for the UE, before returning to a job as a machine operator at a beverage company; she remains involved in community work.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; included is information on Ms. Iria’s family on São Miguel, prior to her immigration to the United States; much of the interview covers her working career in factories, initially in New Bedford and Lawrence, and then Lowell; she discusses in some detail her experiences at the Prince Pasta factory, the nature of the work and the division of jobs by gender and nationality, the change from a family-owned business to a corporate-controlled manufacturing facility, as well as the change from a company union to one affiliated with the United Electrical Workers Machine of America; her role as a union organizer and shop steward is discussed, as well as her attempts, along with coworkers, to keep the plant open following the Borden Corporation’s sudden decision to shut it down; she also discusses the tensions within her family stemming from the demanding roles as mother, wife, homemaker, worker, and union activist.
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Ali, Mehmed
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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2018-04-18
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Iria, Nomesia
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PDF
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English
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Text
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Iria_OH
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São Miguel (Azores)
Lowell (Mass.)
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Cliftex Corporation
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
Prince Pasta Factory
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Conceicão Cunha Labao
Aristides Sousa
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Ilda Sousa Oral History Interview
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Azorean Americans
Immigrants
Immigrant families
Portuguese language
Community organization
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<p><strong>Oral History Interview with Ilda Sousa, November 25, 2016</strong></p>
<p><strong>Biographical Note:</strong></p>
<p>Born in the village of Fontes on the Azorean island of Graciosa in 1926; daughter of Antonio A. and Conceicao A. (da Cunha) Labao; her parents had immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s; her mother settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts, living with relatives from Graciosa and working in a textile mill; her father, who had immigrated from Graciosa to California, was a railroad worker, shoveling coal on a steam locomotive; they met and married in Lawrence; had two daughters, Noemia (who died in infancy) and Deidamia (born in 1910); in 1912 they returned to Graciosa to the village of Fontes and had nine more children (eight daughters and one son); the children, including Ilda Sousa grew to adulthood on Graciosa, but between 1950 and the mid-1960s a number of them immigrated to the United States and settled in Lowell; as a young girl Ilda da Cunha left school to serve as a domestic worker for a wealthier family in Fontes; there she met Aristides A. Sousa, who was born on Graciosa in 1918 and worked as a handyman; they married in 1950 and had one daughter, Marisa D.; in 1966 they immigrated to the United States, settled in Lowell in the “Back Central” neighborhood, and became communicants of Saint Anthony Catholic Church; Ms. Sousa obtained a job in a shoe factory (Grace Shoe), while her husband was employed as a machine operator for a pasta maker (Prince Pasta); she and her husband (who died in 2004, at the age of 85) were members of and active in the Holy Ghost Society and the Holy Trinity Society.</p>
<p><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong></p>
Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali; much of the interview focuses on the lives of the parents of Ilda Sousa, their immigration to the U.S. in the early 1900s and the experiences of Ms. Sousa’s mother in New York City and Lawrence, Massachusetts, as well as their lives on Graciosa, after their return to the island in 1912; through the translation of her daughter Ms. Sousa then describes her life growing up on Graciosa, her marriage there, and her immigration to the U.S. in 1966; included are descriptions of her work place in a Lowell shoe factory; her activities with the Holy Ghost Society, and her experiences in Lowell’s “Back Central” neighborhood.
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Ali, Mehmed
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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2016-11-25
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Sousa, Ilda
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PDF
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English
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Text
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SousaIlda_OH
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Lawrence (Mass.)
Graciosa (Azores)
Lowell (Mass.)
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Danny's Market
Feast of Our Lady of Loreto
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Feast of the Holy Trinity
Grace Shoe Factory
Holy Ghost Society (Lowell, MA)
Holy Trinity Society
Memórias: Preserving the Stories of Lowell's Portuguese Community
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Azorean Americans
Brazilian Americans
Children of immigrants
Immigrant families
Immigrants
Portuguese American women
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Black Americans
Bakeries
Community organization
Easter service
Ethnic neighborhoods
Loreto, Our Lady Of
Wine and wine making
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Lowell (Mass.)
Tewksbury (Mass.)
Azores
Faial (Azores)
Flores (Azores)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Pico Island (Azores)
São Miguel (Azores)
Cabo Verde
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Manuel Barros
Mario Bulhões
Francisco Corvalno
Maria Cunha
Doug DeNatale
Henry DeSousa
Arlindo Espinola
Dionisia Espinola
Bob Estacio
Manuel Figuera
Umbelina Figuera
Fr. Eusebio
Fr. Silva
Anthony Garcia
Adrien Luz
Tony Medeiros
Joe Mello
Gabriela Oliveira
Olivete Poulart
Manuel Silva
Maria Silva
Jose Simão
Duarte Tavares
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Lowell Folklife Collection –Portuguese-American Materials(Digitized by the American Folklife Center in Washington D.C.)Overview:This research guide provides guidance and links to Portuguese-Americanmaterial within the Lowell Folklife Collection.These itemsare digitized and specifically relevant to the Portuguese-American Digital Archives (PADA), a project conducted out of UMass Lowell. This guide was compiled by PADA Archivist.Collection Links:The entire Lowell Folklife Collection (including the materials listed here) can be viewed on the American Folklife website.Links to individual items can be found below.Project Background:The Lowell Folklife Project was conducted in 1987-1988 as a cooperative project of the American Folklife Center and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, with support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, to document contemporary ethnic neighborhoods, occupations, and community life related to the history of industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts.This year-long study yielded an ethnographic collection consisting of 196 hours of sound recordings covering awide range of subjects and activities, including oral history interviews, religious services and festivals (Catholic and Greek Orthodox holy week and Easter services and religious processions; a Cambodian Buddhist wedding ceremony; Cambodian and Laotian New Year's celebrations; Puerto Rican festivals), musical events, parades, ethnic restaurants, and neighborhood tours. An additional 23 hours of sound recordings of musical events and oral history interviews were copied from originals lent by Lowell residents. Collection materials also include correspondence; field notes; questionnaires; neighborhood maps; reports; publications; administrative files; interview transcripts; black-and-white photographic prints, contact sheets, and film negatives (ca. 10,000 images); and color slides and prints, (ca. 3500 images). Documentation was created by fieldworkers working for the American Folklife Center: Peter Bartis, Michael E. Bell, Douglas DeNatale, Barbara Fertig, Carl Fleischhauer, John Lueders-Booth, Mario Montaño, Martha K. Norkunas, Tom Rankin, David Alan Taylor, Eleanor F. Wachs, and members of the Refugee Arts Group.Dates:1987-1988.Extent:22 oral histories (recordings and transcripts).25 audio recordings.1,838 photographs.Rightsand Permissions:The Library of Congress believes that some of the materials in this collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are therefore free to use or reuse. For example, the fieldwork in this collection is in the public domain in the United States.However, the Library has obtained permission for the use of other materials and presents additional materials for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law. For example, some of the recordings contain copyrighted music,
and not all of the performers and other individuals who were recorded signed releases for public use of their work.Oral Histories:•Interview with Manuel Barros, Jr.•Interview with Manuel Barros, Sr., Part 1•Interview with Manuel Barros, Sr., Part 2•Interview with Francisco (Frank) Corvalno•Interview with Maria Cunha•Interview with Henry DeSousa•Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 1•Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 2•Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 3•Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 4•Interview with Bob Estacio•Interview with Manuel and Umbelina Figueira•Interview with Anthony Garcia•Interview with Adrien Luz, Part 1•Interview with Adrien Luz, Part 2•Interview with Adrien Luz, Part 3•Interview with Gabriela Oliveira•Interview with Fr. Eusebio Silva, Part 1•Interview with Fr. Eusebio Silva, Part 2•Interview with Fr. Eusebio Silva, Part 3•Interview with Maria Silva•Interview with Jose SimaoAudio Recordings:•Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 1•Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 2•Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 3•Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 4•Carnaval, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 1•Carnaval, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 2•Carnaval, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 3•Fado Music at IV Seasons, Part 1•Fado Music at IV Seasons, Part 2•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Part 1•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Part 2•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Band Concert, Part 1•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Band Concert, Part 2•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Band Concert, Part 3•Loreto Fest Committee•Mass, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 1
•Mass, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 2•“The Portuguese in Lowell,” Bicentennial Presentation•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 1•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 2•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 3•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 4•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 5•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 6•Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 7Photographs:Church (St. Anthony’s)•Prayer card for Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts; Meeting of former St. Peter's Church parishioners, Lowell, Massachusetts (24 photos)•Easter Mass, St. Anthony Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Easter Mass, St. Margaret Church, 374 Stephens Street, Lowell, Massachusetts; Easter Mass, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)•Copy of photos of prayer card for our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony Church Rectory, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)•1-33, not part of the Lowell Folklife Project collection; Christmas manger, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)•St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (23 photos)•Father Silva's office, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (19 photos)•St. Anthony's Parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Home of Arlindo Espinola and Dionisia Espinola, Lowell, Massachusetts (19 photos)•St. Anthony's Parish during Easter Sunday Mass, Lowell, Massachusetts; Home of Arlindo Espinola and Dionisia Espinola, Lowell, Massachusetts (18 photos)•Interior of St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (11 photos)•Interior of St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)Community•Medeiro's Portuguese American variety store, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)•On the grounds and in the wine cellar of the residence of Manuel Figueira, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•On the grounds and in the wine cellar of the residence of Manuel Figueira, Lowell, Massachusetts (34 photos)•St. Anthony's parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce, Lowell, Massachusetts; The Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans, 944 Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)•Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans, Lowell, Massachusetts (17 photos)•Manuel Figueira and Doug DeNatale, at home of Figueira, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Manual Figueira at his home, showing his winepress, grape arbor, and garden, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)
•Manual Figueira at his home, showing his winepress, grape arbor, and garden, Lowell, Massachusetts (10 images)•Street scenes of Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Father Silva at St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (14 photos)•Central St. fish peddler, Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce, Lowell, Massachusetts; Office of the Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans, Lowell, Massachusetts (17 photos)•Christmas manger, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manuel Barros' home, Tewksbury, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Religious yard shrine in the yard of Joe Mello, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Religious yard shrine in the yard of Joe Mello, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Religious yard shrine in the yard of Joe Mello, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Joe Mello's yard, North Common Housing Project, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Joe Mello's yard, North Common Housing Project, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)•Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)•Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)•Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (8 photos)•Gardens of Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (8 photos)•Religious yard art, Joe Mello's yard, Lowell, Massachusetts (8 photos)WorkLife•Tony Medeiros holding up fish in back of his fish truck at Central and Elm Streets, Lowell, Massachusetts (3 photos)•Maria Cunha at work, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manuel Barros, Barry's Pastry Shop, Lowell, Massachusetts; Maria Silva's knitting and crocheting projects, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Francisco "Frank" Corvalno, First Bank, Central St. Branch, Lowell, Massachusetts (7 photos)•Tony Medeiros in back of retail fish truck in neighborhood of St. Anthony's Parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Street scenes of various unidentified individuals, Lowell, Massachusetts (13 photos)•Barry's Pastry Shop, Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts (32 photos)•Barry's Pastry Shop, Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce Market, Lowell, Massachusetts (17 photos)•Barry's Pastry Shop, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Fish salesman, Central St., Portuguese yards, Back Central, grape arbors, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)Carnaval•Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (22 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)
•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (33 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (11 photos)•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (6 photos)•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (5 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval Celebration; St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval Celebration; St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)Fado at IV Seasons•Olivete Maria singing at the IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manuel Barros, Jr., Barry's Pastry Shop, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manny Silva and customers at rear of fish trucks, Back Central Street, Lowell, Massachusetts (12 photos)•IV Seasons Portuguese Restaurant during dinner and the musical performances of Duarte Tavares, Mario Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart, Lowell, Massachusetts (19 photos)•IV Seasons Portuguese Restaurant during dinner and the musical performances of Duarte Tavares, Mario Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)•IV Seasons Portuguese Restaurant during dinner and the musical performances of Duarte Tavares, Mario Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Fado musicians, IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•Fado musicians, IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts (13 photos)Feast of Our Lady of Loredo•Skateboarding, Merrimack St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony's church, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)•Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Festival of Our Lady OfLoreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (14 photos)•Procession for Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts; Dick Taffe, Lowell, Massachusetts (14 photos)•Festival of Our Lady Of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Festival of Our Lady Of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (12 photos)•Parade from St. Anthony's Church in celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)•Mass at St. Anthony's Church on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (7 photos)
•Parade from St. Anthony's Church in occasion of the celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (31 photos)•Parade from St. Anthony's Church in celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 images)•Committee of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (13 photos)•Committee of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce, Lowell, Massachusetts (32 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto procession, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (6 photos)•Loreto Organizing Committee, St. Anthony's Parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Fish peddler and tow truck drivers, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•St. Joseph's cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts; Portuguese Festival of Our Lady, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 images)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (24 photos)•Our Lady of Loreto, procession, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (15 photos)•Portuguese Festival of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (16 photos)•Holy Ghost Park, Portuguese Festival ol Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts; St. Anthony's Church on the morning of the procession of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (16 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto procession, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)•Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)•Back Central festival, Lucy Larcom Park, Lowell, Massachusetts; Our Lady of Loreto preparation and procession, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)•Fish salesman on Central St., Our Lady of Loreto Festival at Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (11 photos)•The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)•The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photso)•The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto, after the procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (3 photos)
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Lowell Folklife Collection - American Folklife Center [1987-1988]
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Azorean Americans
Bakeries
Children of immigrants
Community organization
Easter service
Ethnic neighborhoods
Immigrant families
Loreto, Our Lady Of
Wine and wine making
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<h2><a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/lowell-folklife-project/about-this-collection/">Click here to view the items in this collection.</a></h2>
<div><span>Please note that this collection was not digitized by the Portuguese American Digital Archive. By clicking the link above, you will be brought to the Library of Congress' website. Read below or on the project's website for more information on the digitization of these records.<br /></span><hr /><br /><br />The Lowell Folklife Project was conducted in 1987-1988 as a cooperative project of the American Folklife Center and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, with support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, to document contemporary ethnic neighborhoods, occupations, and community life related to the history of industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts.<br /><br /></div>
<div>This year-long study yielded an ethnographic collection consisting of 196 hours of sound recordings covering a wide range of subjects and activities, including oral history interviews, religious services and festivals (Catholic and Greek Orthodox holy week and Easter services and religious processions; a Cambodian Buddhist wedding ceremony; Cambodian and Laotian New Year's celebrations; Puerto Rican festivals), musical events, parades, ethnic restaurants,</div>
<div>and neighborhood tours. An additional 23 hours of sound recordings of musical events and oral history interviews were copied from originals lent by Lowell residents. Collection materials also include correspondence; field notes; questionnaires; neighborhood maps; reports; publications;</div>
<div>administrative files; interview transcripts; black-and-white photographic prints, contact sheets, and film negatives (ca. 10,000 images); and color slides and prints, (ca. 3500 images).<br />Documentation was created by fieldworkers working for the American Folklife Center: Peter Bartis, Michael E. Bell, Douglas DeNatale, Barbara Fertig, Carl Fleischhauer, John Lueders-Booth, Mario Montaño, Martha K. Norkunas, Tom Rankin, David Alan Taylor, Eleanor F. Wachs,and members of the Refugee Arts Group.<br /><br /></div>
<hr /><br />Items related to the Portuguese American community in Lowell are as follows:<br /><br /><strong>Oral Histories:</strong><br />• Interview with Manuel Barros, Jr.<br />• Interview with Manuel Barros, Sr., Part 1<br />• Interview with Manuel Barros, Sr., Part 2<br />• Interview with Francisco (Frank) Corvalno<br />• Interview with Maria Cunha<br />• Interview with Henry DeSousa<br />• Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 1<br />• Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 2<br />• Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 3<br />• Interview with Henry DeSousa, Part 4<br />• Interview with Bob Estacio<br />• Interview with Manuel and Umbelina Figueira<br />• Interview with Anthony Garcia<br />• Interview with Adrien Luz, Part 1<br />• Interview with Adrien Luz, Part 2<br />• Interview with Adrien Luz, Part 3<br />• Interview with Gabriela Oliveira<br />• Interview with Fr. Eusebio Silva, Part 1<br />• Interview with Fr. Eusebio Silva, Part 2<br />• Interview with Fr. Eusebio Silva, Part 3<br />• Interview with Maria Silva<br />• Interview with Jose Simao<br /><br /><strong>Audio Recordings:</strong><br />• Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 1<br />• Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 2<br />• Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 3<br />• Carnaval, Holy Ghost Park, Part 4<br />• Carnaval, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 1<br />• Carnaval, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 2<br />• Carnaval, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 3<br />• Fado Music at IV Seasons, Part 1<br />• Fado Music at IV Seasons, Part 2<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Part 1<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Part 2<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Band Concert, Part 1<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Band Concert, Part 2<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Band Concert, Part 3<br />• Loreto Fest Committee<br />• Mass, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 1<br />• Mass, St. Anthony’s Church, Part 2<br />• “The Portuguese in Lowell,” Bicentennial Presentation<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 1<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 2<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 3<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 4<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 5<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 6<br />• Weekend Festival, Holy Ghost Society Park, Part 7<br /><br /><strong>Photographs:</strong><br />Church (St. Anthony’s)<br />• Prayer card for Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts; Meeting of former St. Peter's Church parishioners, Lowell, Massachusetts (24 photos)<br />• Easter Mass, St. Anthony Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Easter Mass, St. Margaret Church, 374 Stephens Street, Lowell, Massachusetts; Easter Mass, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)<br />• Copy of photos of prayer card for our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony Church Rectory, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)<br />• 1-33, not part of the Lowell Folklife Project collection; Christmas manger, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)<br />• St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (23 photos)<br />• Father Silva's office, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (19 photos)<br />• St. Anthony's Parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Home of Arlindo Espinola and Dionisia Espinola, Lowell, Massachusetts (19 photos)<br />• St. Anthony's Parish during Easter Sunday Mass, Lowell, Massachusetts; Home of Arlindo Espinola and Dionisia Espinola, Lowell, Massachusetts (18 photos)<br />• Interior of St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (11 photos)<br />• Interior of St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br /><br /><strong>Community</strong><br />• Medeiro's Portuguese American variety store, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)<br />• On the grounds and in the wine cellar of the residence of Manuel Figueira, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• On the grounds and in the wine cellar of the residence of Manuel Figueira, Lowell, Massachusetts (34 photos)<br />• St. Anthony's parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce, Lowell, Massachusetts; The Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans, 944 Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)<br />• Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans, Lowell, Massachusetts (17 photos)<br />• Manuel Figueira and Doug DeNatale, at home of Figueira, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Manual Figueira at his home, showing his winepress, grape arbor, and garden, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Manual Figueira at his home, showing his winepress, grape arbor, and garden, Lowell, Massachusetts (10 images)<br />• Street scenes of Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Father Silva at St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (14 photos)<br />• Central St. fish peddler, Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce, Lowell, Massachusetts; Office of the Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans, Lowell, Massachusetts (17 photos)<br />• Christmas manger, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manuel Barros' home, Tewksbury, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Religious yard shrine in the yard of Joe Mello, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Religious yard shrine in the yard of Joe Mello, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Religious yard shrine in the yard of Joe Mello, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Joe Mello's yard, North Common Housing Project, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Joe Mello's yard, North Common Housing Project, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)<br />• Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)<br />• Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (2 photos)<br />• Joe Mellos' yard, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grape arbors in Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (8 photos)<br />• Gardens of Back Central, Lowell, Massachusetts (8 photos)<br />• Religious yard art, Joe Mello's yard, Lowell, Massachusetts (8 photos)<br /><br /><strong>Work Life</strong><br />• Tony Medeiros holding up fish in back of his fish truck at Central and Elm Streets, Lowell, Massachusetts (3 photos)<br />• Maria Cunha at work, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manuel Barros, Barry's Pastry Shop, Lowell, Massachusetts; Maria Silva's knitting and crocheting projects, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Francisco "Frank" Corvalno, First Bank, Central St. Branch, Lowell, Massachusetts (7 photos)<br />• Tony Medeiros in back of retail fish truck in neighborhood of St. Anthony's Parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Street scenes of various unidentified individuals, Lowell, Massachusetts (13 photos)<br />• Barry's Pastry Shop, Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts (32 photos)<br />• Barry's Pastry Shop, Central St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce Market, Lowell, Massachusetts (17 photos)<br />• Barry's Pastry Shop, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Fish salesman, Central St., Portuguese yards, Back Central, grape arbors, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br /><br /><strong>Carnaval</strong><br />• Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (22 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (33 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (11 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (6 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (5 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval celebration, Pioneer Club, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval Celebration; St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Carnaval celebration, Holy Ghost Society, Lowell, Massachusetts; Carnaval Celebration; St. Anthony Parish Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br /><br /><strong>Fado at IV Seasons</strong><br />• Olivete Maria singing at the IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manuel Barros, Jr., Barry's Pastry Shop, Lowell, Massachusetts; Manny Silva and customers at rear of fish trucks, Back Central Street, Lowell, Massachusetts (12 photos)<br />• IV Seasons Portuguese Restaurant during dinner and the musical performances of Duarte Tavares, Mario Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart, Lowell, Massachusetts (19 photos)<br />• IV Seasons Portuguese Restaurant during dinner and the musical performances of Duarte Tavares, Mario Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)<br />• IV Seasons Portuguese Restaurant during dinner and the musical performances of Duarte Tavares, Mario Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Fado musicians, IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• Fado musicians, IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts (13 photos)<br /><br /><strong>Feast of Our Lady of Loredo</strong><br />• Skateboarding, Merrimack St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony's church, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)<br />• Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Festival of Our Lady Of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (14 photos)<br />• Procession for Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts; Dick Taffe, Lowell, Massachusetts (14 photos)<br />• Festival of Our Lady Of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Festival of Our Lady Of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (12 photos)<br />• Parade from St. Anthony's Church in celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (37 photos)<br />• Mass at St. Anthony's Church on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (7 photos)<br />• Parade from St. Anthony's Church in occasion of the celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (31 photos)<br />• Parade from St. Anthony's Church in celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 images)<br />• Committee of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (13 photos)<br />• Committee of the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts; Martin's Fish and Produce, Lowell, Massachusetts (32 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto procession, St. Anthony's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts (6 photos)<br />• Loreto Organizing Committee, St. Anthony's Parish, Lowell, Massachusetts; Fish peddler and tow truck drivers, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• St. Joseph's cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts; Portuguese Festival of Our Lady, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 images)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (24 photos)<br />• Our Lady of Loreto, procession, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (15 photos)<br />• Portuguese Festival of Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (16 photos)<br />• Holy Ghost Park, Portuguese Festival ol Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts; St. Anthony's Church on the morning of the procession of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (16 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto procession, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)<br />• Our Lady of Loreto Procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (38 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)<br />• Back Central festival, Lucy Larcom Park, Lowell, Massachusetts; Our Lady of Loreto preparation and procession, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (36 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (1 photo)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Lowell, Massachusetts (9 photos)<br />• Fish salesman on Central St., Our Lady of Loreto Festival at Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts (11 photos)<br />• The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photos)<br />• The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (20 photso)<br />• The Feast of Our Lady of Loretto, after the procession, Lowell, Massachusetts (3 photos
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<p><a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/lowell-folklife-project/about-this-collection/">American Folklife Center Website</a></p>
<p>A copy of all items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.</p>
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1987-1988
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PDF
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English
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American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Lowell (Mass.)
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Barry's Pastry Shop
Carnaval
Fado
Feast of Our Lady of Loreto
Holy Ghost Park
Holy Ghost Society (Lowell, MA)
IV Seasons
Lowell Union of Portuguese Americans (LUPA)
Martin's Fish and Produce
Medeiro's Portuguese American Variety Store
Pioneer Club
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
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These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Date
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1985-2018
Oral History
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Title
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Wilhemina Leite Machado Oral History Interview
Subject
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Portuguese American women
Mills and mill-work
Children of immigrants
Education
Cooking
Boardinghouses
Description
An account of the resource
Oral History Interview with Wilhemina Leite Machado, February 17, 1999<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Wilhemina's parents both immigrated to the United States from the island of Graciosa in the Azores. They got married shortly after arriving and Wilhemina was born on May 30, 1914. Her sister was named Mary Foley. Their parents worked in Boott Mills in Lowell until their father found work in Machester, N.H., where they lived for many years.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; tells how Wilhemina's parents immigrated to U.S.; their strict portuguese customs; work in the mills; how Wilhemina parented her children differently; relationship between ethnic groups.
Creator
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
Publisher
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Date
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1999-02-17
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Machado, Wilhemina Leite
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PDF
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English
Type
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Text
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99-22
Coverage
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Lowell (Mass.)
Graciosa (Azores)
Relation
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Her sister, Mary Leite Foley, was also interviewed for this project. You can view her interview <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/206">here</a>.
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Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
Portuguese Band
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Title
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
Format
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Document
Source
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
Publisher
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Rights
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Date
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1985-2018
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Participants
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Antonio Batista
Madeline Bettencourt
Albino Brittle
George Cunha
Elaine Ferreira
Fr. Grillo
Fr. Oliveira
Joe Freitas
Virginia Freitas
Charlie Goldman
George Mello
Jimmy Oliveira
Isaura Pacheco
Laura Pacheco
George Silva
Maria Silva
Emanuel Sousa
John Viera
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Title
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Edward Santos Oral History Interview
Subject
The topic of the resource
Mills and mill-work
Children of immigrants
Radio programs
Veterans
Ethnic neighborhoods
Cooking
Tenement houses
Description
An account of the resource
Oral History Interview with Edward Santos, February 18, 1999<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:<br /></strong>Edward Santos was born on March 25, 1919 in Lowell, MA. His mother, Rose Espanola, was born in Graciosa in 1896 and immigrated to the United States in 1902. His father, Antero Santos, was born in Madeira in 1891 and immigrated to the United States in 1913. His parents were married at St. Anthony's Church on September 26, 1914 by Bishop Henry DaSilva.<strong><br /><br /></strong><strong>Scope and Contents:<br /></strong>Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; conducted at the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS); spoke about his family's immigration to America; the Back Central neighborhood in Lowell, MA; living conditions; Portuguese food; St. Anthony's feasts; local clubs; radio programs; mill work; economic crash; local sports; time in the military.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Date
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1999-02-18
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Santos, Edward
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PDF
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English
Type
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Text
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99-24
Coverage
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Lowell (Mass.)
Graciosa (Azores)
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Band Hall
Catholic Youth Organization
Central Street Club
Colonial Band
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Harry Bass
Holy Ghost Park
Lisbon Club
Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
Lusitania Bakery
Pioneer Club
Pitta's Market
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese American Men's Association
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
Sousa's Market
Tremont Club
WCAP
WLLH
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Title
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Date
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1985-2018
Text
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Participants
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Leno Espinola
Joe Freitas
Maria Mendonca
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Grace Freitas Oral History Interview
Subject
The topic of the resource
Tenement houses
Portuguese American women
Children of immigrants
Mills and mill-work
Ethnic neighborhoods
Cultural assimilation
Cooking
Boardinghouses
Description
An account of the resource
Oral History Interview with Grace Freitas, March 23, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Grace Freitas was born in Lawrence, MA on May 23, 1913. Her mother was Maria Mendonca, who was born on April 16, 1883 in the Azores. She left for the United States in 1898. Her father was Leno Espinola. Six weeks after Grace was born, her parents took her back to the Azores for one year, before returning back to Lawrence in 1914. Her parents split after their return. Since they were being raised by a single mother, Grace and her brother worked in the mills from a young age. She later married Joe Freitas.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br /><span>Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included Grace's parents' immigration story; time working in the mills; tenement living; Portuguese cooking.<br /></span>
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
Publisher
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Date
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1999-03-23
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Freitas, Grace Espinola
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99-21
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Lawrence (Mass.)
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Joseph Correa
Manuel Correa
Maria Cunha
Fausto Lage
Rose Picanso
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Sally Correa Oral History Interview
Subject
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Portuguese American women
Children of immigrants
Mills and mill-work
Ethnic neighborhoods
Boardinghouses
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Oral History Interview with Sally Correa, March 10, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Sally (Zelta) G. Francisco Correa was born on June 29, 1921 in Lowell, MA. Both of her parents immigrated from the Azores. Her mother was Rose Picanso, who was born on September 19, 1891. Her father was Joseph Francisco, who was born on February 1, 1891. Rose and Joseph married at St. Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion focuses on her parents' journey to America; life in the Portuguese community in Lowell; mills; live in poverty.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1999-03-10
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Correa, Sally
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99.18
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Holy Ghost Park
Holy Ghost Society (Lowell, MA)
Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
Pioneer Club
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
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An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Manuel Correa Oral History Interview
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Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Description
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Oral History Interview with Manuel Correa, March 11, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Manuel Correa was born on February 5, 1916 in Lowell, MA. Both his parents immigrated to the United States from Funchal, Madeira. Later, the family temporarily moved back to Madeira, but they moved back when Manuel was 14.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included his father's immigration journey; his childhood in Lowell; his move back to Madeira and back to the U.S. again.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1999-03-11
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Correa, Manuel
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99-16
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Date
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1985-2018
Text
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Participants
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George Cunha
Mary Dias
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Deolinda Cunha Oral History Interview
Subject
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Children of immigrants
Immigrant families
Mills and mill-work
Cultural assimilation
Description
An account of the resource
Oral History Interview with Deolinda Cunha, March 11, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Deolinda (also uses Eolinda) Cunha was born on June 18, 1919 in Methuen, MA. Her mother was Mary Dias, born on April 12, 1891. Her father was Jaim Cunha Diaz, born on December 8, 1890. Her parents originally immigrated in 1911 but, soon after Deolinda's birth, went back to Graciosa. Deolinda came back to the United States when she was 31 years old.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included her parent's immigration to America; her own immigration at 31; meeting her husband; working in the mills.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1999-03-11
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Cunha, Deolinda
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99-17
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Lowell (Mass.)
Graciosa (Azores)
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Date
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1985-2018
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Wilhemina Leite Machado
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Mary Leite Foley Oral History Interview
Subject
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Portuguese American women
Children of immigrants
Boardinghouses
Mills and mill-work
Cultural assimilation
Ethnic neighborhoods
Description
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Oral History Interview with Mary Foley, March 11, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Mary Foley was born on October 5, 1925 in Lowell, MA. Her mother was Violante Sousa (b. March 10, 1894). Her father was Belarmino C. Leite (b. September 5, 1892). They were both born on the island of Graciosa. Her sister is Wilhelmina Leite Machado.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included her parents' immigration to the United States; her mom's time in the mills; her childhood in both Lowell and Manchester, NH.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1999-03-11
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Foley, Mary Leite
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99-19
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Lowell (Mass.)
Manchester (N.H.)
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Her sister, Wilhemina Leite Machado, was also interviewed for this project. You can view her interview <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/200">here</a>.
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Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
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PDF
Language
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English
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
Text
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Participants
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Grace Freitas
John Pitta
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Joseph Freitas Oral History Interview
Subject
The topic of the resource
Immigrant families
Tenement houses
Mills and mill-work
Education
Ethnic neighborhoods
Cooking
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Oral History Interview with Joseph Freitas, February 24, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Joseph Freitas was born on August 23, 1908 in Funchal, Madeira. He immigrated with his mother (Herminia Freitas) to the United State in 1914 when he was 5 years old.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included growing up in tenement housing; leaving school to work in the mills; extending his education; joining the Portuguese American society; living with other ethnic groups; local portuguese culture; playing on the radio</p>
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1999-02-24
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Freitas, Joseph
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99.20
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
Portuguese American Center (Lowell, M.A.)
Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, M.A.)
WLLH
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UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1985-2018]
Description
An account of the resource
These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1985-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell.
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Children of immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Mills and mill-work
Portuguese American women
Format
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Document
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All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1985-2018
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Gladys Mendonca Picanso Oral History Interview
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Portuguese American women
Children of immigrants
Cooking
Ethnic neighborhoods
Balls (parties)
Cultural assimilation
Veterans
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Oral History Interview with Gladys Mendonca Picanso on July 23, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Gladys (Glorina) Mendonca Picanso was born on July 18, 1918 in Lowell, MA. Her parents were born on the island of Graciosa. She worked as a hairdresser and owned her own shop.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included her parents' family and immigration; her father's store (Sousa's Market); trips back to the Azores; education history; local dances; her siblings' time in the army; the Holy Ghost Society; current immigration.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal
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1999-03-23
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Picanso, Gladys Mendonca
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PDF
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English
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Text
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99-23
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Band Hall
Feast of the Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost Society (Lowell, MA)
Lowell Portuguese Elders Oral Histories Project
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS)
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Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection [1898-1925]
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Passports
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Baptismal records
Birth certificates
Portuguese American women
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Currently housed at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. From the Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at the <a href="https://lowelllibrary.org/">Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, MA.</a>
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1898-1925
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Portuguese
English
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Text
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Lowell (Mass.)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Terceira Island (Azores)
Faial (Azores)
São Miguel (Azores)
Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
Graciosa (Azores)
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The Lowell School Department work collection consists of original documents pertaining to age verification for many immigrant children in the Lowell, MA area. When children moved to the United States, they would need to prove their age to the Lowell School Department to determine whether they would attend school or begin to work (depending on their age). Most students used baptismal records from their church of birth in Portugal, although some used their passports as well.
However, these items do not only verify the age of each child. These documents are treasure troves of additional information such as the name of their parents, their hometown and baptismal information. This collection is a look into the swell of Portuguese immigrants at the turn of the century,
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Antonio Abreu Passport
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Passports
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Azorean Americans
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Antonio was born in Lowell, MA on August 31, 1908.
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From Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at Pollard Library in Lowell, MA
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1922-03-23
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English
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Text
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001 Abreu, Antonio
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection [1898-1925]
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Azorean Americans
Passports
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Baptismal records
Birth certificates
Portuguese American women
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Currently housed at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. From the Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at the <a href="https://lowelllibrary.org/">Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, MA.</a>
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1898-1925
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JPEG
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Portuguese
English
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Text
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Lowell (Mass.)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Terceira Island (Azores)
Faial (Azores)
São Miguel (Azores)
Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
Graciosa (Azores)
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The Lowell School Department work collection consists of original documents pertaining to age verification for many immigrant children in the Lowell, MA area. When children moved to the United States, they would need to prove their age to the Lowell School Department to determine whether they would attend school or begin to work (depending on their age). Most students used baptismal records from their church of birth in Portugal, although some used their passports as well.
However, these items do not only verify the age of each child. These documents are treasure troves of additional information such as the name of their parents, their hometown and baptismal information. This collection is a look into the swell of Portuguese immigrants at the turn of the century,
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Isabel Abreu Baptismal Record
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Baptismal records
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Portuguese American women
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Isabel was born on December 27, 1906 on the island of Madeira. Her parents were Francisco Goncalves Abreu and Joaquina de Jesus Abreu.
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From Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at Pollard Library in Lowell, MA
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Perry, John S.
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Portuguese
English
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Text
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002 Abreu, Isabel
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Lowell (Mass.)
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Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection [1898-1925]
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Azorean Americans
Passports
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Baptismal records
Birth certificates
Portuguese American women
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Currently housed at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. From the Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at the <a href="https://lowelllibrary.org/">Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, MA.</a>
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1898-1925
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Portuguese
English
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Text
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Lowell (Mass.)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Terceira Island (Azores)
Faial (Azores)
São Miguel (Azores)
Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
Graciosa (Azores)
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An account of the resource
The Lowell School Department work collection consists of original documents pertaining to age verification for many immigrant children in the Lowell, MA area. When children moved to the United States, they would need to prove their age to the Lowell School Department to determine whether they would attend school or begin to work (depending on their age). Most students used baptismal records from their church of birth in Portugal, although some used their passports as well.
However, these items do not only verify the age of each child. These documents are treasure troves of additional information such as the name of their parents, their hometown and baptismal information. This collection is a look into the swell of Portuguese immigrants at the turn of the century,
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Josephine Abreu Baptismal Record
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Baptismal records
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Azorean Americans
Portuguese American women
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Josephine d'Abreu was born on September 27, 1899 on the island of Terceira. Her parents were Domingos E. and Maria da Silva.
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From Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at Pollard Library in Lowell, MA
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1914-10-12
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Kyle, John M.
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Portuguese
English
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Text
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003 Abreu, Josephine
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Lowell (Mass.)
Terceira Island (Azores)
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Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection [1898-1925]
Subject
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Azorean Americans
Passports
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Baptismal records
Birth certificates
Portuguese American women
Source
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Currently housed at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. From the Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at the <a href="https://lowelllibrary.org/">Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, MA.</a>
Publisher
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Date
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1898-1925
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JPEG
Language
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Portuguese
English
Type
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Text
Coverage
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Lowell (Mass.)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Terceira Island (Azores)
Faial (Azores)
São Miguel (Azores)
Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
Graciosa (Azores)
Description
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The Lowell School Department work collection consists of original documents pertaining to age verification for many immigrant children in the Lowell, MA area. When children moved to the United States, they would need to prove their age to the Lowell School Department to determine whether they would attend school or begin to work (depending on their age). Most students used baptismal records from their church of birth in Portugal, although some used their passports as well.
However, these items do not only verify the age of each child. These documents are treasure troves of additional information such as the name of their parents, their hometown and baptismal information. This collection is a look into the swell of Portuguese immigrants at the turn of the century,
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Subject
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Birth certificates
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Azorean Americans
Source
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From Lowell School Department Work Permit Collection at Pollard Library in Lowell, MA
Publisher
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Date
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1915-05-19
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Kyle, John M.
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No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the Work by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available.
Format
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JPEG
Language
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Portuguese
English
Type
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Text
Identifier
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005 Adelina, Joao
Coverage
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Lowell (Mass.)
Faial (Azores)
Title
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João Adelina Birth Certificate
Description
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João was born on May 16, 1900 on the island of Faial. His mother was Filomena Adelina. His father is unknown.