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Stats 2010 ParkCommunity Legacies &Preservation Community ValuesCultural Youth Totals 1978–2010 Exporting the Lowell Experience Through the years, Lowell has hosted many Year-Round Folk! Pathways in the Student Career Intake Program Now in its third year, “Public Matters: delegations representing cities from around Lowell is well known for its annual to Learning that lead to careers in conservation; the Lowell’s Emerging Leaders” continues to the world seeking to better understand presentation of folk music, traditional crafts Numerous Spindle City Corps that provides summer grow and support learning and activism Lowell’s preservation and revitalization and ethnic foods through the Lowell Folk buses arrive employment and leadership skills to youth 576,415 Visitors that will ensure the Lowell of tomorrow success. In August, Lowell hosted a contin- Festival. This July’s festival will be a very each school ages 16-25; the Youth Theater Program that 18M Visitors will be served by inspired stewards of our gent from Paterson, NJ. A fifty member special one! For 25 years, Lowell has day on French engages young people in living history; and a history, social and cultural capital, and delegation representing the City Council, celebrated heritage traditions and this year Street, Preservation Trade Skills Program with the economic and government institutions. The Mayor, preservation organizations, and the will be bringing forth some of the premier students and Greater Lowell Vocational and Technical Class of 2011 is a diverse group of people business community met with Lowell’s artists from around the globe. Check it out: teachers High School that provides opportunities for representing businesses, arts and culture, leaders to discuss the country’s newest www.lowellfolkfestival.org. A partner-ship stream onto students to hone preservation skills on 5,080 Tours, Events “Paterson Great Falls 1M Students social services, government, and education. national park, with the Massachusetts Cultural Council the curb and historic properties. and Special Programs National Historical Park.” has established a presence in Lowell. Dr. head into the mill to become scholarly Tsongas Industrial More than 200 nationwide and Maggie Holtzberg joined the park staff as detectives and explore issues related to Going to School in a National Park international participants attended June’s Clear views of Lowell’s transformation our resident folklorist and director of immigration, environmental history, As UMASS Lowell has increased its History Center “Innovative Cities: Best Practices in Urban are readily made with the “City as a Cultural Programming. The Lowell Folklife innovation, globalization and labor history. downtown presence, the Park and Tsongas Development” Conference. The Park classroom.” Students and faculty from the Series offers a robust variety of interactive The Tsongas Industrial History Center will Industrial History Center have committed to partnered with Congresswoman Niki Harvard University Graduate School of The rehabilitated Appleton Mills sees artists moving into presentations of crafts, foodways, receive its one millionth program participant orienting incoming freshman into their new Tsongas, UMass Lowell, Middlesex Design made their way to the City in April. contemporary apartments and studios, where looms and performing, and traditions year round. during the Center’s 20th anniversary environment—a national park. Nearly 2,000 32,000 Lowell cotton once dominated the floor space. Community College, and the Lowell Plan Renowned urban planner, Susan Fainstein, Keep up to date on Lowell Folk at: this year. students explored downtown Lowell as a Summer Music Series to organize and present this collaboration brought her class to Lowell to look at urban Some 30 years ago the City had over 5 As part of Preservation Week in 2010, the massfolkarts.org/blog/. new component on their jam-packed 2M People about the economic, physical, and social renewal over time and the ways that cities million square feet of vacant mills. With the Park hosted the collaborative exhibit, Lowell National Historical Park has orientation agenda. development of small- to mid-sized cities. address planning, design, economic, recent opening of the Appleton Mill, the “Historic Preservation: Then & Now” with A Rockin’ National Park developed vast and innovative programs for Lowell Folk Festival National Park Service Director Jonathan preservation and social issues. rehabilitation rate for historic mills in Historic New England at the Boott Mill As a commitment to community revital- youth to connect to the outdoors and Eleven UMass Lowell professors Jarvis and White House Office of Urban Lowell is over 80%. This phenomenal Gallery. The exhibit presented Lowell’s ization, the Park in partnership with the explore aspects of American history. 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Mickey Fearn observed the Park’s pathways text” theme incorporating the Boott Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Portland, who have made investments of over $400M. for youth engagement and heard from many Museum, Mill Girls and Immigrants Exhibit, Canalway & Riverwalk 95,410 Hours! Oregon offered pioneering efforts from Given its preservation success, it is not In April, Senator John Kerry and students who discussed their participation Tsongas Center work- shops, and the their communities. Congratulations to surprising that the City and National Park Representative Niki Tsongas announced a Concord River Greenway with Tsongas Thank you to all for the energy Congresswoman Tsongas, UMass Lowell, were recognized as the 2010 Paul E. Tsongas $5 million U.S. Dept. of Energy grant to The waterways Center and Park staff. and enthusiasm you inject, and all the partners. 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preservation and social issues. issues. social and preservation rehabilitation rate for historic mills in in mills historic for rate rehabilitation

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contemporary apartments and studios, where looms and and looms where studios, and apartments contemporary

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international participants attended June’s June’s attended participants international folklorist and director of of director and folklorist resident our

immigration, environmental history, history, environmental immigration, As UMASS Lowell has increased its its increased has Lowell UMASS As Clear views of Lowell’s transformation transformation Lowell’s of views Clear

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success. In August, Lowell hosted hosted Lowell August, In success. estival F Youth Theater Program Program Theater Youth a contin- a

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continues to to continues presentation of folk music, traditional crafts crafts traditional music, folk of presentation Numerous Numerous that provides summer summer provides that the world seeking to better understand understand better to seeking world the Lowell’s Emerging Leaders” Leaders” Emerging Lowell’s Spindle City Corps Corps City Spindle

Now in its third year, year, third its in Now Lowell is well known for its annual annual its for known well is Lowell that lead to careers in conservation; the the conservation; in careers to lead that delegations representing cities from around around from cities representing delegations “Public Matters: Matters: “Public to Learning Learning to

in the the in Through the years, Lowell has hosted many many hosted has Lowell years, the Through Exporting the Lowell Experience Experience Lowell the Exporting Year-Round Folk! Folk! Year-Round Pathways Pathways Student Career Intake Program Program Intake Career Student Park Legacies & Community Values Values Community & Legacies Park

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Lowell National Historical Park 2011 Annual Report

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