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Special Event
Event
Daughters of the Loom / Letters to the Past
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Time:
4:00 PM
Duration:
2 hours
Type of Event
Other
Partner Program
Description
Join us here at the Visitors’ Center Courtyard Garden
(Outdoors, weather permitting)
(Outdoors, weather permitting)
In the 1910s, New Bedford had the highest percentage of female workers in the United States. Thousands of women and girls in dozens of textile mills churned out miles of cloth. Join artist in residence Beatrice Alder to learn the stories of these millworkers, and make your own mark on history.
As part of a community art project, people of all ages and genders are invited to send messages to the female millworkers who wove New Bedford’s wealth. Write (or draw) a letter to the past, and become part of a story still unfolding today.
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