This is dedicated to Ma Tante Claire |
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| Ma Tante was a "modern" mill girl in the 1940's in Central Falls, RI. She wrote a poem at the time expressing the happiness she found working in a noisy weave shed. Her story deepened my appreciation of the lives of all women who worked in the mills. |
Ma Tante Claire, Summer of 1925
Ma Tante is in the front, with her sister Margie on the left, her baby brother Joseph held by her mother,Laura, and her elder brother Conrad on the right.
Sasha as a Mill Girl
Sasha's visiting Slater Mill in Pawtucket, RI, wearing her new Festival dress, apron, and shawl. Slater Mill was the first operating textile mill in North America.
Sasha visits Samuel Slater's Mill
Pawtucket, R.I., home of the PawSox, and my in-laws.
Poke Bonnet
The Festival packet included a pattern for a poke bonnet. This is my first effort.
Sasha visits the Kelly House
The Kelly House is on the Blackstone Canal in Quinnville, RI. Now a museum, this was the house of the man who procured most of the land in the Blackstone River Valley for textile mill development in R.I.
Sasha in front of Thomas Kelly's garden
Aggie Collettes visit Jaye's House
Thursday Night 6/19/02: Marilyn and Karen R. in Jaye's living room in Chelmsford, a suburb of Lowell, Mass.
Charla and Phyll's Addy
On Jaye's sofa!
Dorisanne and Charla at Jaye's
Charla is holdling Phyll's Addy.
Marilyn
Listening to Charla. Ignoring camera.
Karen R.
Listening to Jacey. (we're still at Jaye's pre-festival party.)
DD Jacey
Jacey's happy to have found kindred souls. The hat is an old straw hat I found somewhere.
Phyll joins in.
Phyll is talking to Karen, but I get a picture of her from the front eventually.
Dorisanne's daughter, Jean.
Jean(ne?) is lounging on Jaye's screened porch. I found her anyway.
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