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Discoveries & Lessons in a Ghetto Town

Lowell: Immigrant town on Merrimack River had all the answers

Part #1
- about me
  - Childhood Trauma – Loss of Love
  - Jacqueline & Francois – Death
Lowell
Immigrants
Franco-Americans
Socioeconomic
Education
Employment
World-View
Personal
Personal – more
Dad
Lowell stuff
Relatives
Memoir Project
Favorite Quotes
Philosophy-me
Career Issues
Lowell Surprises
After World War 2
Odds and Ends
U-Mass-Lowell – Lowell Tech
- Thoughts and Reflections on Lowell Technological Institute, LTI – Summer, 1957
Science & Physics – Early Stages
A Little Bit of of Backyard Science
Ghetto Life
More Ghetto Life
My Mom’s Photo Albums
Career Review
- Men’s Group Discussion – Personal Career Review
Lowell’s Work & Job Opportunities
Available Jobs in City from 1880 to 2000
French-English Verbal Exchanges
Reform School, Orphanage, Public School & Poor Farm
Personal and Dad
A kid grows up at 179 Ludlam Street in Lowell, MA in the 1940s and 1950s
Lowell Sun Clippings from 1900s to 1950s – random selection
A Few Personal Notes from a Time Long Ago – Summer, 1961, Part #1
A Few Personal Notes from a Time Long Ago – Summer, 1961, Part #2
Jobs as a boy in Lowell
Discoveries in a 1952 Ghetto
Disappointments over the Years – Self-Reprimand, Always
LTI Transcripts – 1957 to 1961
Transcripts test page
Stories of the Past
Equations & Math – Text Trials
The Immigrant Way
My Feelings in High School
St Joseph High School – Math
St Joseph High School – Latin & Roman History
Discovery
St-Joseph High School for Boys – Le College Saint-Joseph 1953 – 1957
Personal Background, an Overview
Lowell’s Plebian Reflections of the Times
Unemployment Issues in Lowell during my Youth & Decades Before
Escape to USA
What happened in Lowell in 1946?
After Barker St Experience
A Tale of the Franco-American Diaspora – Work in Progress, WIP
Air Conditioning, Climatic Control in Lowell of the 1950s
Career Goals and Aspirations
Venerable Isaac
Social and religious restrictions on all Franco-Americans (1900 – 1963)
Venerable Bede ~ A.D. 700
Excellent Quotes
Let’s celebrate!
Ask a Librarian – Boston Public Library –
Eisenhower Years, Sputnik, A & H-Bombs – #1
Beggars and Bums
png data in the Media location – random inclusion
US Women Suffragettes in 1913
Review of my first two years at LTI
Quiet Reflection Years after my Decision to Enter LTI
German Musical Classics
8th Grade Graduating Class at St. Louis Elementary – June 15, 1953 – 62 graduates split into two classes – Reference: Lowell Sun
Lowell and Its Attributes – 1890 to 1963
Lowell Statistics from 1835 to 1920
Music in the 1940s and 1950s
A variety of potential Images for Future Web pages
First Publications as a New Ph.D. Graduate
Jack Kerouac
Various fie types tested for compatibility with WordPress
Historical Events – End of WWI to Beginning of WWII
Childhood lessons that served me well – 12-15-21 – final & last
Mom’s Worries – Part #2
Before my High School Years
Illuminating Gas Poisoning reported in Lowell Sun
Inserts of Lionel, erector set, chemistry, etc.
Pennsylvania State University – First Impressions
Book Outline – version #1
State College, PA
New England Poor Houses, AKA Poor Farms
Carnival rides in the 1950s
Félix Albert – Histoire d’un Enfant Pauvre
Newspaper Resources
Textile Mills
Technology
Living Wage
Korea
Nuclear
Nuclear reactor
NASA
Best High School in the City for Science Training?
Lowell High School, LHS
Pius XII
Cardinal Richard Cushing
Labor Day
Marist Brothers
NDEA – National Defense and Education Act – 1958
Nuclear testing
Strontium-90 – (Sr-90)
Jacob Ziskind Scholarship and Fund
Science Fair
Evening Division
LTI plus
Science Fairs
Teacher certification
Nervous breakdown –
Drunkenness –
Germany Experience – 1965-1967
German Towns of Interest
Cold War Years and Worries
Favorite Tunes, 1961 – 1981
Public Shelters
Strategic Air Command – SAC
Nuclear Standoff
Music of 1940s
Civil Defense & Nuclear Weapons
Rock and Roll, R&R
TV of the 1950s
Tokamak vs Stellarator
Nuclear Standoff
Soviet-USA Cooperation
Lowell Sun images
Solar Physics
deuterium-tritium reaction
D-T Structural Issues
Lowell Sun Images
Color Test Page
Owner
Backyard Dilemma
Sample Page
Men’s Group topic – 10-24-2023
Letter of Appreciation to Reader
A Phony Page: a composite of many as fake Memoir Book
First Light of Day in 1939
Textile Mills closing down in Lowell, MA
Everything fascinated me as a young child
Part #3
Recent Reflections – email to friends & relatives
ACCESS all public pages
Fall of France – 1940
Who really owned and profited greatly from the Lowell Textile Mills?
Request for Information on Available Science References in 1950s
Preface – Memoir Book
New Year Message
The Hapless Samaritan
Reflections on writing a memoir
Reflections on writing a memoir #2
Introduction – A Kid grows up in Lowell, Mass. in the 1940s & 1950s-A
Introduction – A Kid grows up in Lowell, Mass. in the 1940s & 1950s-B
Introduction – A Kid grows up in Lowell, Mass. in the 1940s & 1950s-C
Brother Bob and I get ready for the future in 1957 – WIP – Work in Progress
Discoveries and Lessons from a Ghetto Town
Discoveries and Lessons in a Ghetto Town
Discoveries and Lessons in a Ghetto Town
Test Page with Images included
Memoir Book entitled: “Discoveries and Lessons in a Ghetto Town” now is a Work in Progress
Dark Clouds on the Horizon

Music in the 1940s and 1950s

A choice of music when I was a kid on Ludlam Street in Centralville

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