THAT HURRICANE SEPTEMBER had started like every school day of every school year of our lives: Mom rousting Julian and me by breezing into our upstairs bedroom singing “Rise and shine,” a phrase that was all the more annoying because of her good cheer. She’d slide open the louvered doors of our closet and pull out clothes, hold them up briefly for our approval, then order us out of bed […]
Archive | November, 2014
Holly Guran | It says
new young it says very bright beauty and logo brand wear it let it show be labeled new young it says dark shiny newly polished upholstery smell still fresh outgassing plastic it says Sears Walmart Disney it says sewing machines lined up dead gray with ash factory floor fading shades like dirty snow it says locked in it says smoke bodies gray stretchers carried out […]
Holly Guran | The Committee Responds to Petitions for the Ten-Hour Day, 1845
Based on Massachusetts House Document no. 50 We gathered many facts in relation to the Hours of Labor. The average each day in the Lowell mills—twelve and a half. Sarah Bagley works by the piece. Chief evil: shortness of time for meals. Next evil: no time to cultivate the mind. Dr. Wells, city physician found less sickness here than elsewhere, fewer dying in Lowell this year than […]
Holly Guran | Regulations
Regulations Lawrence Manufacturing Company, 1833 No one may be dishonest, dissolute, indolent. All must refrain from ardent spirit, gambling, any desire to smoke Egyptian cigarettes. Fire we must prevent. From public worship, no one may be absent. All must obey Sabbath rules, this we require. No one may be dishonest, dissolute, indolent. For advice, those far from parents may apply to the Agent. To the utmost […]
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