Lowell mill girls
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Oct 19, 2026
Pam FlahertyNARRATOR
Their fine appearance on the Sabbath was often spoken of by strangers visiting Lowell.
Pam FlahertyNARRATOR
Dr. Scoresby, in his, quote, American Factories and Their Operatives, unquote, with selections from the Lowell Offering, holds up the Lowell mill girls to their sister operatives of Bradford, England as an example of neatness and good behavior.
Pam FlahertyNARRATOR
Indeed, it was a pretty sight to see so many wide-awake young girls in the bloom of life clad in their holiday dresses, quote, whose delicate feet to the temple of God seemed to move as if wings had carried them there, unquote.
Pam FlahertyNARRATOR
The morals of these girls were uniformly good.
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Zoe MartinezNARRATOR
Oh, with them we'll beat little Van.
Zoe MartinezNARRATOR
Van, Van is a used-up man." And we named our sunbonnets log cabins and set our teacups, we drank from saucers then, in little glass tea plates with log cabins impressed on the bottom.
Zoe MartinezNARRATOR
The part the Lowell Mill Girls took in these and similar events serves to show how wide awake and up-to-date many of these middle-century working women were.
Zoe MartinezNARRATOR
Among the fads of those days may be mentioned those of the water cure and the Grahamite.
Teddy PanosHOST
I think we're in the middle of one of those reinventions right now.
Teddy PanosHOST
In terms of the social fabric of America as well, a lot of the stories that, again, between the video and this book, the Underground Railroad, the Mill Girls, a Today, I was thumbing through the book again today, just to be honest, there's something I missed that I want to talk to them about.
Teddy PanosHOST
And I discovered that Martin Luther King Jr. actually visited and spoke at the first United Baptist Church.
Teddy PanosHOST
Women voted in Lowell, not...