The Lawrence History Center presents

Reclaiming Urban Renewal

Community Efforts and Impacts in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Other Industrial Cities

Saturday, May 7, 2016· Everett Mill· Lawrence, MA

Symposium Program Guide

This program is hosted by the Lawrence History Center and funded in part by

ECCF—Rosman Family Fund Rosalyn Wood 2011 Charitable Annuity Trust | Catherine McCarthy Memorial Trust Everett Mill Floor Plan

Stone Mill Parking

Ground Floor Freight Elevator

Entrance Ground Floor Entrance to Parking Passenger Elevator/Lobby 3rd Floor

To Restrooms Canal Street Elevator

Freight Stairwell Registration Elevator

Space 3 (3rd floor Common Space)

Ground Floor Entrance/Lobby 15 Union Street

6 Essex Lawrence History Street Center

5th Floor

Space Space Space 5A 5B 5C Elevator

Lobby Freight Stairwell Elevator

Space Space 5E 5D

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Symposium Schedule At‐a‐Glance

8:00 – 8:45 Registration & Continental Breakfast Space 3 (3rd floor)

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome Susan Grabski, LHC Executive Director Professor Robert Forrant, UMass Lowell / LHC Board of Directors

9:00 – 9:45 Keynote Speaker:

"The Planners and the People: Boston's Urban Renewal Revisited" (Speaker information, p. 4) Lizabeth Cohen Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

10:00 – 11:15 PANEL SESSION I

1. Fifty Years of Community (Urban) Renewal Space 5A (5th floor) Dan Cahill, Principal, Dan Cahill and Associates (Session information, p.5)

2. Neighborhood Effects Space 5B (5th floor) UMass Lowell Undergraduate Students Loren Diforte, Richard Garcia, Alessha (Session information, p. 5) Guzzi, Esther Mawhinney, and Danielle Ringler

3. Just Cause Eviction & the Struggle for Community Control of Housing and Land Space 5C (5th floor) Lisa Owens Pinto, Executive Director, City Life/Vida Urbana; Steve Meacham, (Session information, p. 5) Organizing Director, City Life/Vida Urbana

4. From Demolition to Preservation to Celebration: Space 5D (5th floor) Renewing Lowell, Mass. (Session information, p. 6) Peter Aucella, Assistant Superintendent, Lowell National Historical Park; Fred Faust, CEO, The Edge Group, Lowell; Paul Marion, President of the Lowell Heritage Partnership; Charles Parrott, Historical Architect, Lowell National Historical Park

5. From the Ground Up in Lawrence Space 5E (5th floor) Jessica Andors, Executive Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks; Brad Buschur, (Session information, p. 6) Project Director, Groundwork Lawrence; Armand M. Hyatt, Attorney at Law, Hyatt & Hyatt Law Offices, Lawrence

11:30 – 12:45 PANEL SESSION II

1. From Urban Renewal to Affordable Housing Production System: Boston Space 5A (5th floor) Mayors and the Evolution of Community Development Corporations in Boston (Session information, p. 7) Karl F. Seidman, Economic Development Consultant and Senior Lecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Elise Selinger, Masters in City Planning Student at the MIT

2. Parks, Place, and Preservation Space 5B (5th floor) Jim Beauchesne, Visitor Services Supervisor, Lawrence Heritage State Park, and (Session information, p. 7) James C. (Jim) O’Connell, Planner, Boston Office, Northeast Region, National Park Service

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3. Urban Renewal’s Impacts on Springfield, MA and other Gateway Cities and Space 5C (5th floor) New Approaches to Urban Renewal That Can Spur Revitalization (Session information, p. 7) Ben Forman, research director, MassINC; Lara Furtado, Ph.D. Student, Regional Planning Department, UMass Amherst; Michael DiPasquale, AIA, AICP, Founder, UMass Amherst Design Center, Springfield

4. Malls, Modernism, and Urban Renewal Space 5D (5th floor) Kathleen Mahoney, Master’s Student, Public History Program, University of (Session information, p. 8) Massachusetts Amherst; Katelin Olson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University; Richard Padova, M.Ed, M.A., Instructor of History, Geography and Government in the Global Studies Department, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA

5. Old Spaces – New Uses: The Remaking of Lowell’s Historic Mill Footprint Space 5E (5th floor) UMass Lowell Undergraduate Students Keith Clements, Katie Gilligan, and Michelle (Session information, p. 8) Janiak

1:00 – 1:45 LUNCH Space 3 (3rd floor)

1:45 – 2:00 Urban Renewal in Lawrence through the “Rising” Voices of Bread Loaf Led by teacher Mary Guerrero, Lawrence middle school students will communicate through their writing how they see Lawrence and what’s important to them about their city. Students will highlight a new traveling exhibit containing their writing and artwork that will be unveiled for the first time on symposium day (exhibit design by artist Kate Delaney).

2:15 – 3:30 PANEL SESSION III

1. Lawrence ‘Glory Days’ Re‐Imagined Space 5A (5th floor) Llana Barber, Assistant Professor of American Studies, State University of New (Session information, p. 9) York – College at Old Westbury; P.J. Carlino, PhD Candidate in American & New England Studies, Boston University; Dr. Patricia Jaysane, Ph.D., Historical Linguistics, Laval University

2. Neighbors No More – Urban Renewal Comparisons and Research Methods in Space 5B (5th floor) Lawrence and Lowell (Session information, p. 10) Fabiane Kelley, B.A. in History, UMass Lowell Honors College; Dr. Mehmed Ali, Program and Project Coordinator, UMass Lowell Libraries; Zachary Najarian‐Najafi, Undergraduate Student, UMass Lowell; Anthony Sampas; Archivist and Metadata Specialist, UMass Lowell Libraries

3. Resurrecting a Vanished Neighborhood: Interpreting Urban Renewal at Space 5C (5th floor) Boston’s West End Museum (Session information, p. 10) Professor Lois Ascher, Clerk, West End Museum Board; Dr. Susan A. Hanson, President/Director, West End Museum; Duane Lucia, Curator of Exhibits, West End Museum; CEO, Gallery East Network

4. Urban Renewal, a Small City’s Approach: Keeping Heritage Alive While Space 5D (5th floor) Transforming the Urban Landscape (Gardner, MA) (Session information, p. 10) Trevor Beauregard, Executive Director of the Gardner Redevelopment Authority; Russell Burke, Director of Planning with BSC Group; Tracie Pouliot, Community‐ Based Visual Artist/ Chair City Oral History Project; Dale Lucier, Subject, Chair City Oral History Project; Moe Savoie, Chair City Community Art Center

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3:45 – 5:00 PANEL SESSION IV

1. Provenance, Preservation and Discovery: Urban Renewal Archival Resources in Lawrence History Center Lawrence, Massachusetts 6 Essex Street Amita Kiley, Collections Manager, Lawrence History Center; Kathleen Flynn, (Session information, p. 10) Researcher, Lawrence History Center; Richard Wetmore, Volunteer, Lawrence History Center; Louise Sandberg, Special Collections, Lawrence Public Library

2. Town, Gown and History: Redefining Urban Renewal in a Mill City (Lowell, MA) Space 5A (5th floor) Adam Baacke, Director of Campus Planning and Development for UMass Lowell (Session information, p. 11) and Craig Thomas, Chief Design Planner, Lowell Planning Projects Department UMass Lowell Undergraduate Students Olivia Marshall, Brianna Doucette, Katie Vooys, Madeline Ormaza, and Bernice Yeboah

3. Speaking Renewal in Lawrence, Massachusetts Space 5C (5th floor) Mark Cutler, Spanish Instructor, Phillips Academy Andover; Anthony DiFruscia, (Session information, p. 11) Attorney at Law, DiFruscia Law Office; President and Founder, A.D. Management and Realty, Lawrence

4. Is ‘Out With the Old’ Always Better? (Haverhill, MA) Space 5D (5th floor) Sarah Sycz Jaworski, Community Engagement Assistant, Historic New England; (Session information, p. 12) UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Nairoby Gabriel

5:15 – 5:45 Walking Tour Walk will begin in the lobby Led by Jim Beauchesne, Visitor Services Supervisor, Lawrence Heritage State Park of the Everett Mill and conclude at El Taller Walking tour from the Everett Mill through the Historic Mill District viewing (see ad on p. 21) examples of historic preservation and urban renewal, including the Lawrence Heritage State Park. The walk will conclude with good food, drink, and atmosphere at El Taller / The Workshop on Essex Street. *

* Dinner not included in registration fee

Other Attractions The following will take place in the common space on the 3rd Floor of the Everett Mill

Lawrence, MA: A New Urban Renewal Plan for a New Century Emily Keys Innes, Urban Planner, The Cecil Group and Harriman; Maggie Super Church, Independent Consultant

The city of Lawrence is creating LawrenceTBD, a process centered on community engagement, interaction, and input. At every stage of the process, discussions are informed by rigorous analysis of data collected from many sources, including residents’ lived experience of the city. The Lawrence Redevelopment Authority (LRA) has identified job creation, economic development, quality of life, and fiscal stability as primary goals for this effort. The final plan will identify where and how the LRA can address these goals in concert with the City, local businesses and institutions, and community organizations. The ability to comb parcel data, map it using GIS (geographic information systems) and overlay the results with data collected in the field has enabled project planners to identify both assets and challenges in order to target interventions more effectively. Analysis of economic data and community discussion and input at every stage of the process round out the picture of what is now and what could be in the future. Come meet members of the LRA, its Citizens Advisory Committee and consultant team and discover how urban renewal planning in Lawrence has become an inclusive, collaborative and community‐driven process.

Student Exhibit: The Rising Loaves This exhibit is an extension of the summer 2015 Lawrence Student Writers Workshop – The Rising Loaves: Andover Bread Loaf at the Lawrence History Center – funded in part by UMass President’s Office Creative Economy Initiative Funds and by El Taller, Lawrence, MA. Exhibit designed by Kate Delaney. www.lawrencehistory.org Page | 3

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Keynote Speaker:

Lizabeth Cohen Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History Harvard University

"The Planners and the People: Boston's Urban Renewal Revisited"

An expert on 20th‐century American social and political history, Lizabeth Cohen’s current book project, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, considers the benefits and costs of rebuilding American cities through the life and career of urban planner Edward J. Logue, who contributed to major redevelopment projects across the Northeast, including the “New Boston” that emerged in the 1960s.

She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her next book, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, explored how an economy of mass consumption shaped social life, culture, and politics following World War II. Cohen has published widely in top history and urban studies journals, winning numerous awards and distinctions. Her writings have also appeared in edited collections and popular venues including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the American Prospect, and the Boston Herald. She is also coauthor with David Kennedy of a widely used United States history college textbook, The American Pageant.

Cohen has been a longtime member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on the Status of Women and served on the Harvard Task Force on Women in 2005. Among her many honors and awards, Cohen has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Radcliffe Institute. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2001, she served as president of the Urban History Association. Cohen received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s and doctorate in American history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dean Lizabeth Cohen joined the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in July, 2011.

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Detailed Session Information

10:00 – 11:15 PANEL SESSION I

1. Fifty Years of Community (Urban) Renewal Space 5A (5th floor) Dan Cahill, Principal, Dan Cahill and Associates

The presentation starts with the Lawrence Post Office. Cahill, the son of the Postmaster in Lawrence when the Post Office moved, asks the question: Why did the building have to be abandoned and then finally demolished? He provides the answer to that question, the history of the building from its construction in 1904 to its demolition, the reason for the move, and the two chances for preservation that failed. He then compares urban renewal in the past and community development as presently implemented in Lawrence, highlighting in this discussion his experience with community development in Florida.

th 2. Neighborhood Effects Space 5B (5 floor)

 The Coalition for a Better Acre and Community‐based Urban Renewal in Lowell, MA UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Richard Garcia

The CB.A. has brought back to life many old buildings in the city’s Acre neighborhood and turned them into affordable housing. These efforts have prevented the knock down of many buildings while maintaining some level of affordable housing in the city. How this influential Community Development Corporation has emerged as a significant property developer in Lowell is the focus of this presentation.

 What Are the Mental Health Effects of Being Forced to Move from One’s Long‐Time Neighborhoods?

UMass Lowell Undergraduate Students Esther Mawhinney, Loren Diforte and Alessha Guzzi The presentation focuses on how residents of Lowell who were uprooted from their homes and neighborhoods coped with this life‐changing event. Oral histories will inform the presentation.

 Big Projects—Big Neighborhood Changes (Dorchester) UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Danielle Ringler

This presentation will focus on the recent gentrification of East and South Boston and the Fenway area, with a particular focus on how college and university expansion has changed the character of city neighborhoods. Lastly, I will examine how the development of upscale housing in East Boston is effecting working‐class people who have long populated the neighborhood.

3. Just Cause Eviction & the Struggle for Community Control of Housing and Land Space 5C (5th floor) Lisa Owens Pinto, Executive Director, City Life/Vida Urbana; Steve Meacham, Organizing Director, City Life/Vida Urbana

Support for just cause eviction protection is growing around the City of Boston. City Life/Vida Urbana is one of over 30 community organizations advocating for its passage. Just cause protection would help prevent no‐fault evictions and require one mediation before large landlords can raise the rent more than 5%. Proponents argue that this is an extremely modest proposal in light of the devastating gentrification taking place in Boston. The Cleveland Federal Reserve declared Boston is the US city worst hit by gentrification. The Brookings Institution found that the income gap in Boston was the largest in the country. Join City Life activists to learn about the movement to pass a just cause eviction ordinance and how this ordinance fits with the broader struggle for community control of housing and land.

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4. From Demolition to Preservation to Celebration: Renewing Lowell, Mass. Space 5D (5th floor) Peter Aucella, Assistant Superintendent, Lowell National Historical Park; Fred Faust, CEO, The Edge Group, Lowell; Paul Marion, President of the Lowell Heritage Partnership; Charles Parrott, Historical Architect, Lowell National Historical Park

Panelists will review the case of Lowell, Mass., a premier example of good practices in historic preservation, cultural conservation, and urban regeneration. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2002 recognized Lowell for 25 years of exemplary achievement in preservation practices. The preservation ethic was largely a local response to the ravages of 1960s federal urban renewal policy, which left Lowell with large swaths of clear‐cut areas that had been socially vital, if economically struggling, neighborhoods. Driven by city activists, bolstered by academics and urban affairs professionals, the community forged a new development ethic that demonstrated respect for local structures and the human story and which favored community‐based decision‐making. This led to Lowell being designated as a national park and state heritage park in the 1970s. Today, 97 percent of the five million square feet of formerly underused textile mill property in the city has been rehabilitated and made economically productive. Lowell has seen a parallel cultural revival with the associated social gains and psychological lift. The panel moderator will be Celeste Bernardo, Superintendent at Lowell National Historical Park.

5. From the Ground Up in Lawrence Space 5E (5th floor)

 Challenges and Rewards When Working on Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods From the Ground Up Jessica Andors, Executive Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks Presentation by Lawrence CommunityWorks' director will address the specific challenges and rewards of working on revitalizing urban neighborhoods from the ground up. The discussion will focus on three themes: 1) sparking and sustaining authentic resident involvement in the planning, design, and implementation of revitalization projects; 2) solving the multiple, layered challenges of unlocking development sites that face issues from their industrial past and legacy of divestment, including environmental contamination, murky ownership, amassed liens, and obsolete infrastructure; and 3) the challenge of balancing housing development with commercial revitalization, all within the context of helping a city economically and physically reinvent itself.

 Lawrence Urban Renewal: What We’ve Gained, What We’ve Lost and What’s at Risk Brad Buschur, Project Director, Groundwork Lawrence

This presentation focuses broadly on urban redevelopment in Lawrence. We will discuss buildings as well as infrastructure that has been demolished, preserved or created over the last fifty years. The presentation will close with a discussion about the risks and redevelopment challenges associated with Lawrence's built environment as the city enters this next phase of urban redevelopment.

 An Experience‐Based Perspective of How Urban Renewal Impacted Lawrence’s North Common Neighborhood Armand M. Hyatt, Attorney at Law, Hyatt & Hyatt Law Offices, Lawrence

There was a behind‐closed‐doors planning process by the City of Lawrence in the late 1970s and 1980s. Meaningful public input occurred only after the Renewal Plan had already become a fait accompli. North Common, an entire ethnic residential neighborhood—with various family business sprinkled among triple‐deckers—was razed to carry out a politically power‐driven Urban Renewal plan. One impact was the extent to which demolition served to push people out of that established neighborhood, compounding ‘white flight’ to the suburbs by those with economic means and effectively displacing those with less financial capacity. Out of this emerged a strong public resistance to a crucial component of the North Common Plan. This community activism ultimately led to the creation of a community development corporation and increased public awareness of how to (a) exert citizen‐based power to challenge what may otherwise simply trickle‐down from the channels of government and (b) engage in public debate over issues which effect the community.

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11:30 – 12:45 PANEL SESSION II

1. From Urban Renewal to Affordable Housing Production System: Boston Mayors and the Evolution Space 5A (5th floor) of Community Development Corporations in Boston Karl F. Seidman, Economic Development Consultant and Senior Lecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Elise Selinger, Masters in City Planning Student at the MIT

Research on the history of community development corporations (CDCs) in Boston and how a strong ecosystem of support for CDCs has emerged over time will be presented. The session will discuss how early CDCs emerged as a grass roots response to urban renewal in Boston neighborhoods and then emerged as developers to implement urban renewal projects of their own. CDCs have become central to Boston’s effort to build affordable housing. By considering the role of mayoral leadership, city and state policies, foundation and other non‐profit institutions in Boston’s strong support system for CDCs, this session can inform how industrial cities may address urban renewal and redevelopment.

2. Parks, Place, and Preservation Space 5B (5th floor)

 Preservation and Place‐Making: Lawrence Heritage State Park and the New Urban Renewal Jim Beauchesne, Visitor Services Supervisor, Lawrence Heritage State Park

By the 1970s traditional urban renewal had gotten a bad rap over issues such as displacement of the poor, destruction of urban cores, projects friendlier to cars than to people, and the overall failure in its ultimate objective, to revitalize cities. In the late 1970s, MA pioneered a new model of revitalization: Heritage Parks. Targeting several struggling, older industrial cities, the Parks were to lift community spirit by celebrating local history and culture, to model historic preservation in city centers, to provide spaces for community gatherings, to create much‐needed green spaces, and by doing all of this be revitalization catalysts. Of the parks created, Lawrence Heritage State Park has come closest to fulfilling all aspects of its mission and has contributed in often under‐appreciated ways to Lawrence’s ongoing revitalization. This largely visual presentation will outline the history and impacts of the Park in its 30th year.

 Using Urban Renewal to Create Historical National Parks: Providence, Rhode Island and Rome, New York James C. (Jim) O’Connell, Planner, Boston Office, Northeast Region, National Park Service

One purpose of urban renewal was to use historical commemoration to create a new urban image, attract tourists, and revitalize those cities. The presentation will focus on two smaller cities that used urban renewal to create national parks—Providence, RI (Roger Williams National Memorial; 1965) and Rome, NY (Fort Stanwix National Monument; 1973). The purpose of the Roger Williams National Memorial was to commemorate Williams and his Rhode Island Colony, the first effort in America to establish freedom of religion. Its creation entailed demolition of 4.5 acres of the urban fabric. Rome, NY sought to build a replica of Fort Stanwix, where a decisive military action took place during the Revolutionary War that helped secure American independence. The fort had been dismantled after the Revolution, and the downtown of Rome sprung up on the site. Rome demolished 15.5 acres of a blighted downtown and reconstructed a model of the historic fort to attract tourists. The presentation will discuss how such urban renewal efforts reflected an approach pursued during the 1960s and 1970s, but which is out of favor today.

3. Urban Renewal’s Impacts on Springfield, MA and other Gateway Cities and New Approaches to Space 5C (5th floor) Urban Renewal That Can Spur Revitalization Ben Forman, research director, MassINC; Lara Furtado, Ph.D. Student, Regional Planning Department, UMass Amherst; Michael DiPasquale, AIA, AICP, Founder, UMass Amherst Design Center, Springfield

The session describes the impact that urban renewal has had on Springfield and other Massachusetts Gateway Cities and presents new approaches to reclaim this legacy in ways that can spur revitalization. Speakers will highlight new post‐modern approaches to planning and redevelopment, highlighting work done as part of a collaboration between the City of Springfield and the UMass Amherst Design Center. The session will include the presentation of recent Design Center projects including proposals for the redesign of underused public plazas, reuse of vacant spaces under and adjacent to highways, the redesign of vacant urban renewal parcels and design proposals for retrofitting existing parking lots/garages. We conclude with a discussion of current conditions in Springfield and other Gateway Cities, and prospects for the future.

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4. Malls, Modernism, and Urban Renewal Space 5D (5th floor)

 Rocky’s Folly: Modernism, Urban Renewal, and Albany’s Empire State Plaza Kathleen Mahoney, Master’s Student, Public History Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Nelson Rockefeller Empire State Plaza, also known as the South Mall, is a complex encompassing eleven state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York. Conceived by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, construction on this massive urban renewal project began in 1965 and lasted thirteen years, and its $2 billion price tag exceeds the cost of any other state government project to date. Rockefeller’s taste for modernist architecture and modern art provided the guiding aesthetic for the design and décor of the plaza, and the sleek modernist buildings stand in stark contrast with the adjacent 19th‐century Romanesque Revival State Capitol building. While Governor Rockefeller aspired to create “our generation’s vision of what the capital of a great state should be,” his plans and designs prioritized his own personal aesthetic over what was appropriate for the physical and social fabric of Albany. The presentation contextualizes the history of the plaza within the broader history of modernist architecture and urban renewal. Using Albany as a case study, I will explore the ideas that informed modernist design as well as how and why it fell out of favor. While modernist architecture originally seemed to signify a break from stifled tradition and promised a better future, it took on new meanings within a few decades as looming skyscrapers in vacuous plazas failed to revitalize the urban environment.

 Building Up, Spreading Out: Analyzing the Legacy of Buffalo’s Public Housing Projects During the Urban Renewal Era and Beyond Katelin Olson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority was established in 1934 to oversee the development and maintenance of the city’s public housing. Under the auspices of slum clearance, thirty blocks on the near East Side were demolished in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The new high‐rise malls, Ellicott and Talbert, towering modernist monoliths, were completed in 1958‐1959. Over the next two decades, their use, maintenance, and treatment largely paralleled similar projects in cities including St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Boston. Yet unlike many of their contemporaries, parts of these projects were substantially renovated in the 1990s and now serve Buffalo’s low‐income senior population. Buffalo’s East Side has been impacted by the architectural legacy of public housing, and ongoing projects inherit the legacy of their urban renewal predecessors. I argue that the confluence of public policy objectives and modernist architectural objectives resulted in the design and management of the Ellicott and Talbert Malls, while their adaptive reuse four decades later is notably distinct from the fate of contemporary high‐rise projects in similar cities.

 Six Key Ingredients to Successful Urban Renewal Richard Padova, M.Ed, M.A., Instructor of History, Geography and Government in the Global Studies Department, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA

Presenter will discuss six identifiable predictors that form a recipe of success for any urban renewal plan. Cities that have incorporated these six key ingredients have witnessed a resurgence in their economy, a return of both shoppers and residents to their downtowns, and a strengthening of their tax base – three major benchmarks by which most cities’ urban renewal programs are judged.

5. Old Spaces – New Uses: The Remaking of Lowell’s Historic Mill Footprint Space 5E (5th floor)

 How Did the Tsongas Arena Come to Be? UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Keith Clements

On the site of the historic Merrimac Mills, knocked down in as part of one of Lowell’s early ventures into urban renewal stands the Tsongas Arena, now owned by UMass Lowell. The history of the arena’s construction is an interesting one, which includes a public referendum on its construction, a public‐private partnership to get it built, and the city of Lowell’s eventually selling the building to the University. How this all came to pass and the public’s role in determining the outcome are the focuses of this presentation.

 Mill No. 5 in Lowell: A Model for Reuse of Old Manufacturing Space UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Michelle Janiak

Presentation will focus on public and private urban renewal efforts and around Mill No. 5 on Jackson Street. A general history of the area and interviews with residents and business owners will be conducted and inform the presentation. Historic and recent photographs of the space will be utilized as well.

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 Before and After: Lowell’s Jackson‐Appleton‐Middlesex (JAM) Area and Urban Renewal UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Katie Gilligan

A careful examination of what the JAM area looked like before any urban renewal took place and what has transpired there over the last five years is the focus of this presentation. How was the renewal plan carried out? How much did community participation guide the efforts? What role did public and private funding play? Are there quantifiable benefits to the City of Lowell from the effort?

1:00 – 1:45 LUNCH Space 3 (3rd floor)

1:45 – 2:00 Urban Renewal in Lawrence through the “Rising” Voices of Bread Loaf Led by teacher Mary Guerrero, Lawrence middle school students will communicate through their writing how they see Lawrence and what’s important to them about their city. Students will highlight a new traveling exhibit containing their writing and artwork that will be unveiled for the first time on symposium day (exhibit design by artist Kate Delaney).

2:15 – 3:30 PANEL SESSION III

1. Lawrence ‘Glory Days’ Re‐Imagined Space 5A (5th floor)

 “This Would Be a Ghost Town”: Latinos and Revitalization in Lawrence, MA Llana Barber, Assistant Professor of American Studies, State University of New York – College at Old Westbury

In the decades after World War II, Lawrence experienced substantial population and economic decline. City leaders initiated urban renewal in an effort to draw middle‐class residents and shoppers back into the city, but they were largely unsuccessful. Instead, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and other Latinos settled in the city over the next few decades, bringing new life into its economy and public spaces. This was not the “renewal” that city leaders had envisioned, and Latinos faced opposition on many levels, but ultimately the energy they brought to Lawrence was largely responsible for its revitalization. As a Latino community leader explained in the early 1990s, “If we would… leave the city, this would be a ghost town.”

 Paternalism Inscribed on the Industrial City: The Case of Lawrence, MA P.J. Carlino, PhD Candidate in American & New England Studies, Boston University

The magnificent towering brick factories of industrial cities are striking reminders of the glory of New England's manufacturing past. Viewed from an interstate drive‐by, broken windows and crumbling smokestacks seem to confirm a prevalent narrative of economic and social collapse. Yet a more detailed analysis of the built environment of Lawrence reveals not only the expected tumultuous history of decline, but also a surprisingly lively city of businesses and immigrants. This presentation investigates the power relationships and community history in Lawrence, one of the first American planned industrial cities. Starting from a visual analysis of the existing conditions of the historic north canal area, the presentation uses architectural surveys, mapping, planning documents, legislation, newspaper accounts and oral interviews to demonstrate how paternalism among the city leadership affected the cultural geography of the city from its founding through twentieth‐century attempts at urban renewal.

 Lawrence: History and Image Dr. Patricia Jaysane, Ph.D., Historical Linguistics, Laval University

Since the City’s beginning, Lawrence residents have struggled with history and image. Nowhere is that so clear as in the urban redevelopment efforts in the middle of the 20th century. After the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 and exacerbated by strikes in 1916 and 1919, the latter resulting in deportations associated with the Palmer raids, Lawrence began a decades long process of denial. The Housing Act of 1949 formed an unlikely alliance of Progressives seeking housing justice and businessmen who sought improved commercial conditions. Urban Renewal razed 10% of the city’s total acreage, most in North Lawrence in areas associated with the strikes, displacing thousands of residents from longstanding, ethnically diverse neighborhoods. www.lawrencehistory.org Page | 9

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2. Neighbors No More – Urban Renewal Comparisons and Research Methods in Lawrence and Lowell Space 5B (5th floor) Fabiane Kelley, B.A. in History, UMass Lowell Honors College; Dr. Mehmed Ali, Program and Project Coordinator, UMass Lowell Libraries; Zachary Najarian‐Najafi, Undergraduate Student, UMass Lowell; Anthony Sampas; Archivist and Metadata Specialist, UMass Lowell Libraries

Overarching theme of the session is how urban renewal was executed in these two post‐industrial cities and how local governments’ decisions impacted the communities they intended to serve. Presenters will analyze how the strong momentum of federal policies connected to substantial amounts of funds created an inexorable yet challenged drive towards the traditional urban renewal approach of knocking neighborhoods down. We will look at how the research for the studies was gathered and ask the question: “What do the existing archives tell and what might they hide?” Four participants will focus on different aspects of the urban renewal narrative.

o Kelley will present on the 1958 Common‐Valley‐Concord urban renewal project in Lawrence. o Ali will discuss the urban renewal and city planning processes for Lowell during the key decades of the mid‐20th century, with a comparison to some of the key features of Lawrence's narrative. o Najarian‐Najafi will showcase his work in creating an interactive website documenting Lowell’s Little Canada before its demolition. o Sampas will tie all of the presentations together by discussing how the panelists conducted their research and how others might utilize a variety of unique archival resources to help tell the story of urban renewal.

3. Resurrecting a Vanished Neighborhood: Interpreting Urban Renewal at Boston’s West End Space 5C (5th floor) Museum Professor Lois Ascher, Clerk, West End Museum Board; Dr. Susan A. Hanson, President/Director, West End Museum; Duane Lucia, Curator of Exhibits, West End Museum; CEO, Gallery East Network

West End Museum is a neighborhood museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End of Boston. The West End, an immigrant neighborhood, was destroyed and its population displaced in an urban renewal campaign that saw a third of Boston’s downtown demolished between 1958 and 1960. This panel will discuss the historical context of the demolition of the West End; the evolution of the West End Museum and its mission and its current effort to develop a strategic plan that will to ensure that the fulfillment of its mission into the future.

4. Urban Renewal, a Small City’s Approach: Keeping Heritage Alive While Transforming the Urban Space 5D (5th floor) Landscape (Gardner, MA) Trevor Beauregard, Executive Director of the Gardner Redevelopment Authority; Russell Burke, Director of Planning with BSC Group; Tracie Pouliot, Community‐Based Visual Artist/ Chair City Oral History Project; Dale Lucier, Subject, Chair City Oral History Project; Moe Savoie, Chair City Community Art Center

Gardner, population just over 20,000, is a small city with a significant industrial history in furniture manufacturing. Since the industry’s decline the City has faced challenges dealing with abandoned properties such as the cost of remediating contaminated sites and demolition of underutilized, blighted buildings. Through private and public investments, along with forming federal, state and local partnerships, urban renewal plans have transformed the community. At the same time, the City and citizens take pride in their history of manufacturing, and there are many approaches to honoring and preserving that culture. The session examines two active urban renewal plans and the work of The Chair City Oral History project, a grassroots effort to honor and preserve furniture workers’ stories. The project’s focus is on the last large factory, Nichols & Stone, which closed in 2008. Gardner’s efforts offer a look at how urban renewal and a community industrial past need not be antithetical.

2:15 – 3:30 PANEL SESSION IV

1. Provenance, Preservation and Discovery: Urban Renewal Archival Resources in Lawrence, MA Lawrence History Amita Kiley, Collections Manager, Lawrence History Center; Kathleen Flynn, Researcher, Lawrence Center History Center; Richard Wetmore, Volunteer, Lawrence History Center; Louise Sandberg, Special 6 Essex Street Collections, Lawrence Public Library

The Lawrence History Center (LHC) and the Lawrence Public Library Special Collections (LPL) host a vast amount of resources pertaining to urban renewal in the city of Lawrence. From Lawrence Redevelopment Authority records, to mayoral collections, oral histories, photographs, maps, and drawings—all are available to researchers. The presentation will tell the story of how

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the collections came to LHC and LPL, the process in which they have been preserved, and the myriad of ways each aspect may be explored by researchers.

o Kiley will provide an overview of the contents of and efforts made to organize and preserve the LHC’s Urban Renewal and Redevelopment Collection. Included in her presentation will be audio clips from select oral histories of those living in Lawrence during the period of urban renewal. o Flynn will focus on the mayoral papers of John J. Buckley and Daniel P. Kiley, Jr., both major influences in the process and decisions of urban renewal in Lawrence. This presentation will highlight the depth of correspondence, newspaper articles, and administrative activities that can be found in each collection. o Wetmore will provide an overview of the urban renewal maps and drawings collection and show examples of the documents available to researchers. o Sandberg will use LPL resources (plans, school committee reports, photographs, yearbooks) to show how the change in the city’s demographics and image was reflected in schools’ physical structure and how those buildings either disappeared or morphed into other structures used for a variety of purposes.

Time will be allowed for questions and answers, as well as a brief tour of the Lawrence History Center.

2. Town, Gown and History: Redefining Urban Renewal in a Mill City (Lowell, MA) Space 5A (5th floor)

 Lowell, Massachusetts: Case Studies of Urban Renewal Policies in a Gateway City Adam Baacke, Director of Campus Planning and Development for UMass Lowell and Craig Thomas, Chief Design Planner, Lowell Planning Projects Department

Urban Renewal has shaped cities in many ways; Lowell is no exception. The City experienced several Urban Renewal initiatives during the immediate post‐war decades, some realized and others abandoned for both lack of resources and the emergence of a pioneering new model for revitalization grounded in historic preservation. Lowell renewed its commitment to Urban Renewal in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a direct component of a preservation‐based redevelopment strategy, in part correcting for some of the excesses of the earlier era. This session explores projects that have impacted Lowell from both eras and highlight the contrasts between the two models, emphasizing how lessons learned in the first era have influenced more inclusive and more urban‐focused strategies during the contemporary era.

 UMass Lowell, Its Neighborhood, and Urban Renewal UMass Lowell Undergraduate Students Olivia Marshall, Brianna Doucette and Katie Vooys

Presentation will look at the effects of UMass Lowell's expansion on the City of Lowell and residents of the neighborhoods that abut its expanding campuses. What existed before the University bought land and built new campus buildings? Who or what was displaced in the process? What are UMass Lowell’s future expansion plans and how might the plans impact the Acre neighborhood? Before and after images, maps, interviews, and written and oral histories inform the presentation.

 UMass Lowell Expands: Good or Bad for its Neighbors? UMass Lowell Undergraduate Students Madeline Ormaza and Bernice Yeboah

UMass Lowell has been expanding into many parts of Lowell in the recent years, tearing down houses and small businesses in its path. We focus on seeing how this expansion has effected the people and businesses left in the area. Has the expansion effected them negatively? Are they constantly reminded of how UMass Lowell took the homes of people they knew and cared for or displaced local businesses that they frequented? Or, has the expansion been a blessing to the businesses and the economy of Lowell? Do the people living in these areas think that UMass Lowell has produced positive change? Interviews with tenants and local business owners in the areas near North Campus will inform the presentation.

3. Speaking Renewal in Lawrence, Massachusetts Space 5C (5th floor)

 We, the People: Voices of the Immigrant City Mark Cutler, Spanish Instructor, Phillips Academy Andover

A vibrant collaboration between youths and adults committed to community development and to the idea that no one story defines a place, this presentation will highlight the work of Lawrence High School and Phillips Academy Andover teachers and students toward the creation of the oral history project “We, the People: Voices of the Immigrant City” (http://nosotroselpueblo.wordpress.com/). Led by Phillips Academy Spanish instructor Mark Cutler, students will share oral history work completed with Lawrencians who lived through Urban Renewal in the city and others who have more www.lawrencehistory.org Page | 11

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recently made Lawrence their home. The project interprets oral histories already held in the Lawrence History Center archive and identifies new subjects not previously interviewed in order to represent more broadly the diverse identities that make up the Immigrant City today.

 A Personal Account of Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s Anthony DiFruscia, Attorney at Law, DiFruscia Law Office; President and Founder, A.D. Management and Realty, Lawrence

A personal account of Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s with the advent of urban renewal, including a pictorial history of the Plains area, before and after urban renewal.

4. Is ‘Out With the Old’ Always Better? (Haverhill, MA) Space 5D (5th floor)

 Beyond Brick and Mortar: Alternative Forms of Historic Preservation Sarah Sycz Jaworski, Community Engagement Assistant, Historic New England

Focuses on non‐traditional methods for preserving community history. Historic New England (HNE) recognizes the tough decisions communities face in trying to honor their past while stimulating economic growth. HNE’s Everyone’s History initiative is an innovative approach to preserving twentieth‐century history through memory and imagery. In Haverhill, the project took the form of a documentary film, Woolworth’s: Remembering Haverhill’s Shopping District, produced in conjunction with cultural partners including the Buttonwoods Museum, Haverhill Community Television, and Haverhill Public Library’s Special Collections. The mid‐twentieth century saw the rise of suburbs and the decline of Haverhill’s downtown. Unsuccessful urban renewal efforts led to the demolition of many iconic buildings during a time when economic progress was seen to be at odds with historic preservation. The film and session will discuss efforts to help preserve and tell the stories of the past in an effort to curb similarly destructive initiatives from happening in the future.

 ‘Out with the Old in with the New’: Public Perceptions of Rebuilding Haverhill City Hall UMass Lowell Undergraduate Student Nairoby Gabriel

Presentation focuses on public perceptions of the tearing down and reconstruction of City Hall. Highlighting the importance of public opinion, political motives for knocking down an historic building, and the tensions between old‐style urban renewal and historic preservation are at the heart of the presentation.

5:15 – 5:45 Walking Tour Walk will begin in the lobby Led by Jim Beauchesne, Visitor Services Supervisor, Lawrence Heritage State Park of the Everett Mill and conclude at El Taller Walking tour from the Everett Mill through the Historic Mill District viewing (see ad on p. 21) examples of historic preservation and urban renewal, including the Lawrence Heritage State Park. The walk will conclude with good food, drink, and atmosphere at El Taller / The Workshop on Essex Street. *

* Dinner not included in registration fee

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Speakers

Mehmed Ali works for the UMass Lowell Libraries as Program and Project Coordinator and wrote his dissertation on urban renewal in Lowell.

Jessica Andors is the Executive Director of Lawrence CommunityWorks, a nonprofit community development corporation forging a network of residents and stakeholders revitalizing the city of Lawrence, MA. Jessica was part of a team of community organizers that spearheaded the organization’s rebirth in 1999. Since then, LCW has grown from a staff of one and a deficit, to a $2.7 million organization with over 5,000 resident and stakeholder members, over $90 million invested in affordable housing, family asset building, and community organizing and development, and numerous awards for its work. Jessica received her Master’s of City Planning degree from MIT, where she was honored for outstanding contributions to the intellectual life of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She currently serves on the Boards of the MA Association of Community Development Corporations, Mill Cities Community Investments, and the Lawrence Partnership, a public‐private economic development collaborative; she also sits on the MA Brownfields Advisory Group and the New Markets Advisory Group.

Professor Lois Ascher is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences at Wentworth Institute in Boston, into which she was hired as the first full time female faculty member. Her current work in urban culture studies grew from an interdisciplinary course, Boston Voyages By Book and Foot. The course studies the growth of Boston historically and culturally, with significant attention to the struggles and contributions of its immigrant populations. Outside the classroom, Ascher maintains her interest in urban culture as Clerk to the Board at Boston’s West End Museum, and as a member both of its Advisory Board and its programming Committee.

Peter Aucella, assistant superintendent, LNHP, a former executive director of the federal Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (LHPC) and Lowell’s assistant city manager for planning and development.

Adam Baacke, Director of Campus Planning and Development for UMass Lowell since 2014, worked for the City of Lowell's Department of Planning and Development (LDPD) for nearly 15 years, serving as its Chief Planner, Deputy Director, Director, and Assistant City Manager. He oversaw the implementation of two major urban renewal initiatives, the Acre Plan and the Jackson Appleton Middlesex Urban Redevelopment Plan. He has worked in community development, historic preservation, design, and planning for organizations in New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania. He holds an undergraduate degree in American History from Cornell University and a Master of Science in Public Affairs from UMass Boston's McCormack Institute.

Llana Barber, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the State University of New York – College at Old Westbury, teaches courses on immigration and urban history. She moved to Lawrence in 2003 and has spent the past thirteen years researching and writing about the city’s history. Her book manuscript Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She currently lives in Queens, NY.

Trevor Beauregard has over 20 years of experience in Community Development and Planning. With a Bachelor of Science in Regional Planning from Westfield State University and M.S. in Urban Affairs from Boston University, he has worked for the City of Gardner for 7 years. During his tenure he’s been involved in implementing two urban renewal plans. Over his 20‐year career he has worked for the Cities of Beverly and Leominster, MA, and the MA Technology Collaborative’s Renewable Energy Trust. He was recently elected by his peers to a two‐year term as President of the Massachusetts Economic Development Council and is currently Executive Director of the Gardner Redevelopment Authority.

Jim Beauchesne, Visitor Services Supervisor at Lawrence Heritage State Park, has overseen programming and interpretation there since 1998. A member of the Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, he has served on the board of the Lawrence History Center. He did his graduate study at Northeastern University, where he earned an M.A. in Public History. His thesis was an oral history project focused on St. Anne’s Parish and the French‐Canadians of Lawrence. While in graduate school he worked as an interpretive ranger at Lowell National Historical Park. Born and raised in Lawrence, he attended the now‐defunct St. Anne's parochial grammar school and Central Catholic High School.

Celeste Bernardo is Superintendent at Lowell National Historical Park (LNHP) and a 30‐year veteran of the National Park Service.

Russell Burke, Director of Planning with BSC Group, is an urban planner with extensive public and private sector experience, who has served in senior positions in public planning agencies and major real estate development firms.

Brad Buschur, a project director with Groundwork Lawrence, is responsible for managing the community input, design, and construction of park and infrastructure improvements. He most recently worked for the developer Cabot, Cabot & Forbes. He holds a B.A. in Urban Planning and Political Science from Miami University and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from UMass Amherst. www.lawrencehistory.org Page | 13

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Dan Cahill is an award winning urban planner noted for redevelopment and urban renewal work in New England and Florida. A native of Lawrence, Mr. Cahill’s grandfather worked for the Essex Co. and his father was the long serving Postmaster of Lawrence after World War II. Cahill started the community development efforts for Orange County (FL), then given national recognition for his work. He worked with the oldest African American community in the country and implemented a new kind of ‘urban renewal’ in numerous neighborhoods. He returned to MA, becoming Director of Planning and Development for Lawrence, where he worked on the city’s last large urban renewal project and helped initiate the Lawrence Visitor’s Center and Museum Square Apartments among other projects. He was the Director of the MA Home Mortgage Finance Agency and started the Fleet (Bank) Community Development Corporation.

P.J. Carlino is a PhD candidate in American & New England Studies at Boston University (BU). He is an industrial designer by training, and taught design and manufacturing at Parsons School of Design in NYC through 2012. A historian of product design with a particular knowledge and interest in the intersection of manufacturing and design history, his dissertation will investigate the social history and the built environment in furniture‐making cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a fellow with the Boston Furniture Archive he spent the summer of 2014 researching and cataloging 400 years of Boston furniture held in local institutions. In the spring of 2016 he helped coordinate the Dynamic City conference at BU, bringing together scholars, mayors and urban planners to discuss the opportunities and challenges of historic preservation in the future of cities.

Maggie Super Church is an independent consultant working with mission‐driven clients to help build healthy, sustainable and equitable communities. Her expertise spans multiple fields, including urban planning and design, community development, real estate finance and non‐profit management. She has nearly twenty years of professional experience working in Lawrence and communities across the country. As the past Executive Director of Groundwork Lawrence, she helped lead the organization’s growth from a small start‐up to a dynamic statewide and national model for public‐private partnership. She earned her M.A. in City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the recipient of the Wallace Floyd Award for City Design and Development and the MIT/DUSP Excellence in Public Service Award. She received her Master’s degree in Urban Design from the Edinburgh College of Art and her B.A. in Architecture from Yale University. A member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s County Health Rankings Scientific Advisory Group, past Board Chair of Groundwork USA and a former Board member at the Lawrence History Center, she lives in Lawrence with her husband and two children.

Keith Clements, a senior at UMass Lowell will graduate in May 2016 with a B.A. in History and will then work toward a Master’s in Education so that he can teach high school history in Massachusetts.

Mark Cutler, born in Lawrence and raised in Andover, is on the Lawrence History Center board. With an M.A. in Spanish,since 2003 he has worked at Phillips Academy, where he teaches Spanish and facilitates intercultural exchanges through P.A.’s Learning in the World and Community Engagement programs. He is a 2015‐16 fellow in the Tang Institute at Andover, exploring place‐based and socially conscious collaborations in the Merrimack Valley. Through work with young people, he promotes language and cultural competency as important life skills for the 21st century. He and the students that present with him today have developed long‐term partnerships in Lawrence, exploring issues of immigration, home, and identity in collaboration with Lawrence CommunityWorks, the Lawrence History Center, and Lawrence High School's ENLACE classes.

Loren DiForte was born in Lowell, raised in Chelmsford and graduated from Chelmsford High School in 2013. A junior at UMass Lowell in the nursing program, she is expected to graduate in May 2017. Interested in Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, she currently works at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates as a medical assistant in the Pediatrics department.

Anthony DiFruscia is President and Founder of A.D. Management and Realty in Lawrence. He served in the MA Legislature from 1966 to 1972 and founded the DiFruscia Law Office in 1967. Born and raised in the so‐called Plains area of the city, he experienced life there pre‐urban renewal. He has a B.A. from Emerson College and a J.D. from New England School of Law. His love for the city of Lawrence is a source of great pride and he endeavors to participate in the preservation and renewal of the city through participation in projects like the Urban Renewal Symposium.

Michael DiPasquale, AIA, AICP is a registered architect and certified urban planner with a small practice in Northampton, MA, whose work consists of urban design and mixed‐use developments, including housing for persons with special needs. At UMass Amherst/LARP he teaches courses and coordinates community outreach activities. In 2009, he founded the UMass Amherst Design Center in Springfield. Special interests include community participation and the role it plays in the equitable redevelopment of post‐industrial cities.

Brianna Doucette is an honor’s student at UMass Lowell and is expected to graduate in December 2016 with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree with a specialty in nursing. Brianna grew up in Lynn, MA, which is similar to cities like Lowell and Lawrence in terms of urban life. This contributed to her interest in urban redevelopment and through her Honor’s Seminar she has been given the opportunity to explore the city in more depth.

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Fred Faust is CEO of The Edge Group in Lowell, a private real‐estate developer and property management firm. He helped write the legislation for Lowell’s national park while on the staff of Congressman and later U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He was the first executive director of the LHPC (1978‐1986).

Kathleen Flynn was an early supporter of the Immigrant City Archives (now the LHC) during the 1980s and 1990s, volunteering and serving in several board capacities, including president. A graduate of Regis College, she received advanced degrees from Northeastern University in counseling and Fitchburg State College in educational administration. Kathy was a founding member of the Bridge Over Troubled Waters Program in Boston, MA. After 33 years of service she retired as an administrator from Whittier Regional Vocational Tech High School in Haverhill, MA. Currently she supports LHC as a volunteer and researcher and also authored Sacred Spaces, a history of St. Mary and Immaculate Conception Cemeteries. She is a board member and annual walker for the Just'Cause 60‐mile Walk for Breast Cancer.

Ben Forman, research director at MassINC, a nonpartisan think tank that uses research, civic journalism, and public forums to stimulate debate and shape public policy, coordinates MassINC’s research agenda and oversees production of research reports. Prior to joining MassINC, he served as a researcher at the Brookings Institution. With previous positions at the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation and the economic consulting firm Nathan Associates, he has experience in city government and the private sector.

Lara Furtado, a Ph.D. student in the Regional Planning department at UMassAmherst, is a trained architect from the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil and was a visiting student at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York. She has worked in architecture firms and also as researcher in a laboratory in Brazil focused on guaranteeing affordable housing for marginalized communities. Her work in the UMass Amherst Design Center consists of studying Legacy Cities such as Springfield and how design institutions and community‐based groups can have a transformative role in revitalizing post‐industrial cities.

Nairoby Gabriel is a political science‐honors student at UMass Lowell. Born in Salem MA, raised in Lawrence MA, and currently residing in Haverhill. She works at her alma matter at Northern Essex Community College in the Financial Aid department, helping students like herself find ways to fund their academics. She also serves as a community leader in the Mount Washington area organization called "Urban Kindness", which aims to unify and connect the diverse and large residential area. She has interned in the offices of Mayor Fiorentini in Haverhill and Mayor Rivera in Lawrence.

Richard Garcia is an undergraduate student at UMass Lowell majoring in Entrepreneurial Studies. Born and raised in Boston, he currently works for a private equity firm as an intern. In the future he hopes to go to law school.

Katie Gilligan is an undergraduate History major at UMass Lowell. She is planning to be a teacher somewhere in Middlesex County. Born and raised in Lowell, she is a graduate of Lowell High School.

Mary Guerrero, M.A., Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, is a retired Lawrence public school teacher and Lawrence History Center board member. Her family lives in Lawrence and own two businesses in the city– El Taller and Café Azteca. She won a 2014 innovations in education grant from The Sandbox to create the “My City is a Museum” Project in Lawrence and has worked with Andover Bread Loaf for several years. She brings her expertise in teaching and place‐based learning in an immigrant community to Mapping Our World.

Alessha Guzzi, an undergraduate honors nursing student, works at UMass Medical in Worcester. At UMass Lowell her classes included Western Civilization, Sociology, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Completed clinicals include Psychiatric and Pediatrics. A student of the city, Aleesha has developed an interest in Lowell and its residents.

Dr. Susan Hanson holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park. Since 2001, she has been Principal of History Behind the Scenes, which provides consulting services to history museums, historic sites, cultural institutions and private clients in the areas of Master, Strategic and Interpretive Planning. She has more than 30 years of experience in planning, collections and archives management, and public programming. Her extensive professional experience includes her role as the director and assistant director of living history farm museums in both Texas and Virginia. Hanson has been involved with the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums since 1983, serving as President of the organization from 1999‐2001. She joined the West End Museum in 2013 and currently serves as its President and Director.

Armand Hyatt is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, California and New Hampshire. Since 1976, he has maintained his primary law office in the North Common neighborhood of his boyhood. His general practice includes civil and criminal trial work, contract law, estate planning and handling hundreds of secured real estate transactions. His experience includes several affordable housing developments (700+ units). Armand has remained pro bono General Counsel for Lawrence CommunityWorks‐‐‐and a member of the Board and Executive Committee‐‐‐continuously since he co‐founded that CDC in 1986 to fortify a resident‐based

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struggle in the North Common neighborhood which successfully overturned an illegal land disposition process and then secured the acquisition and ultimate development of 140 units of affordable housing on that urban renewal site.

Emily Keys Innes is an urban planner with The Cecil Group and Harriman. Her professional focus is on the use of urban renewal legislation to create tools for the redevelopment of New England’s cities and downtowns. Her interest in historic preservation has led to planning projects that investigate methods for creating conditions for economic growth that leverage the assets of historic downtowns and protect historic buildings and development patterns. Ms. Innes recognizes the complex interactions among community desires, urban design, market realities, and zoning requirements and enjoys working with communities to define their own responses to these interactions. A member of the Urban Land Institute, she participates in their Technical Assistance Program for cities and towns and is the former Chair of her town’s Planning Board.

Michelle Janiak is an undergraduate Psychology major with a minor in education at UMass Lowell. Learning about urban renewal in Lowell is interesting because she lives in nearby lives in Chelmsford, MA. It is important to her to learn about the history of her surroundings. She is especially interested in people’s opinions on urban renewal, especially individuals impacted by the process.

Sarah Sycz Jaworski is the Community Engagement Assistant for Historic New England, the nation’s largest and oldest regional heritage organization. A graduate of the Tufts University Museum Studies program, she has worked at New England museums as a museum educator and public program developer. In addition, she served as the director for the Kingston Community Library in Kingston, NH, where she helped lead a $2.8M new library construction project. In 2015 Sarah directed Woolworth’s: Remembering Haverhill’s Shopping District, an oral history based documentary film that tells the universal story of small urban communities rise and fall and eventual revitalization through the 20th and 21st centuries.

Dr. Patricia Jaysane holds a Ph.D. in historical linguistics from Laval University. While teaching at Merrimack College in North Andover, she became founding director of Merrimack College’s Urban Resource Institute, focusing on education, development and sustainability in Lawrence. Leaving Merrimack, she became director of the Lawrence History Center, where she produced presentations, exhibits and reports on topics ranging from education to economic development to public health. Her study entitled The Community Context of Health in Lawrence, Massachusetts provided the basis for examining the complex causes of poor health outcomes in the City. She produced a film on the history of Lawrence. Publications include articles in The Encyclopedia of Religion and proceedings from the fourth conference of the Small City and Regional Community.

Fabiana Kelley, an immigrant from Brazil, graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in History from UMass Lowell in December of 2015. Her Honor’s College thesis was on urban renewal in Lawrence.

Amita Kiley was raised in Lawrence and graduated from Northeastern University with a B.A. in American History in 2004. Her experience growing up in Lawrence fostered a love of the city and a strong sense of wanting to preserve its history. In 2001, as part of Northeastern’s Co‐operative Education program, she found herself working at the LHC as a preservation assistant. She continued her professional career after graduation at the archive. In 2014, she moved into her current role as collections manager and research coordinator. She works closely with LHC’s director and local historians, coordinates and supervises volunteers, handles walk in visitors and manages membership correspondence from the LHC office.

Duane Lucia has lived in the West End of Boston for over 25 years. He is one of the founders of the West End Community Center and has served as President of the West End Civic Association, as well as the West End Museum where he currently serves as curator of exhibits. Professionally, Mr. Lucia is CEO of the Gallery East Network, a company he co‐founded in 1979, which provides exhibit consulting services and event planning for artists, and various art related educational programming.

Dale Lucier grew up and currently resides in Winchendon, MA. A former 33‐year furniture worker, her grandfather and uncle also worked in furniture. She got her first job at Nichols & Stone when she was 19 years old. She was one of the last employees working there when the factory closed in 2008. She currently spends her time caring for family, working on projects around the house, and enjoys quiet time sitting on her front porch. Dale’s story was the inspiration for the Chair City Oral History project.

Kathleen Mahoney is a second year Master’s student in the Public History program at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on 20th century American urban history. She received a B.A. in History from Boston College and completed a post‐ baccalaureate program in Urban Studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her current research looks at a controversial urban renewal project in her hometown of Albany, NY that displaced a residential neighborhood in the 1960s. She serves on the collections committee at the Loring‐Greenough Historic House in Jamaica Plain and volunteers on the archives team at Girls Rock Campaign Boston.

Paul Marion, author of Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park, is president of the Lowell Heritage Partnership, a community alliance whose motto is “Caring for Architecture, Nature, and Culture.” The group’s new initiative involves revitalizing Lowell’s historic canal system. www.lawrencehistory.org Page | 16

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Olivia Marshall is an Honor’s student at UMass Lowell. She is currently working towards her Bachelor of Science Degree with a specialty in nursing, which she is expected to receive in December 2016. Originally from Boxford, MA, she grew up in a suburban neighborhood and moved to Lowell to experience life on an urban college campus. Since moving to Lowell in September 2013, she has been extremely interested in the history and growth in the city of Lowell.

Esther Mawhinney, an undergraduate Honors student at UMass Lowell majoring in nursing. Raised in Lynn, a graduate of Lynn Classical High School in 2013, at UMass Lowell her classes included Sociology, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Completed clinicals include Psychiatric, Maternity and Pediatrics.

Steve Meacham, Organizing Director at City Life/Vida Urbana, has been an organizer for over 40 years, working around issues of housing, labor rights, and war. He worked in Quincy Shipyard for nine years as a welder until it closed in 1986. Since coming to City Life in 1999 he has helped further develop that organization's radical approach to organizing, using the sword‐shield model (public protest and legal defense).

Zachary Najarian‐Najafi is a senior history major at UMass Lowell, and his primary area of interest is 20th century history; he is planning on pursuing an M.A. in library science.

James C. (Jim) O’Connell is planner for the Boston Office of the Northeast Region of the National Park Service. O’Connell is also an Adjunct Professor in the City Planning/Urban Affairs program at Boston University. He holds a B.A. from Bates College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His books on urban history include The Hub’s Metropolis: Greater Boston’s Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth (MIT Press, 2013) and, with Michael F. Konig, Shaping an Urban Image: The History of Downtown Planning in Springfield, Massachusetts (Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1990). He has served as Deputy Executive Director of the Springfield (MA) Redevelopment Authority and Economic Development Director of the Cape Cod Commission.

Katelin Olson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. The former Executive Director of the Albion Main Street Alliance, Katelin received her M.A. in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell in 2009. She serves on the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission and is currently completing her dissertation on the decline and adaptive reuse of Buffalo’s East Side.

Madeline Ormaza is a third year undergraduate student and a member of the Honors College at UMass Lowell where she is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and Finance. Her goal is to graduate within five years with a Master’s degree in Accounting. Her future aspiration is to be a public accountant in one of the big four accounting firms.

Lisa Owens, the Executive Director at City Life/Vida Urbana, has dedicated the last 25 years to building, nurturing and sustaining radical grassroots organizations fighting for racial, economic, and social transformation. Lisa is a popular educator, adjunct professor, an occasional consultant and a board member of several racial and economic justice organizations.

Richard Padova, M.Ed, M.A., is an instructor of history, geography and government in the Global Studies Department at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, MA. Courses at Northern Essex have included Urban Geography and Honors Urban Planning. A native of Lawrence, MA with an interest in both its history and its future, Richard serves on the Board of Directors of the Lawrence History Center and is a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Lawrence Redevelopment Authority, helping to create a new urban renewal plan for the city of Lawrence.

Charles Parrott, historical architect at LNHP, previously served in a similar role at the LHPC, where he provided the design management of the downtown building facade rehabilitation grant program. He has been involved in the ongoing Lowell Canalway program of greenway development and preservation along the city’s canals.

Tracie Pouliot is a community‐based visual artist from central MA. She holds a BFA in Fine Art Printmaking from Pratt Institute and an MA in Community Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her father worked in the furniture industry for over 30 years in Gardner, MA. Her current community based art practice is inspired and informed by her time spent working in the Nichols & Stone furniture factory. The Chair City Oral History Book Series turns first hand accounts from furniture workers into hand‐printed, hand‐ bound books using old‐fashioned methods of bookmaking. She is a member of local and national organizations including the Gardner Area League of Artists and Groundswell, a network of oral historians, cultural workers, community organizers, and documentary artists.

Danielle Ringler is a UMass Lowell senior, with a dual major in Marketing and Management. She came to Lowell on a track scholarship. After her sophomore year she decided to focus more on her studies, left track behind and joined the University’s co‐op

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program. Being a part of the program allowed her to work full‐time for 6 months at a company and then extend her employment for six additional months.

Anthony Sampas is the Archivist and Metadata Specialist with the UMass Lowell Libraries where he specializes in Congressional records and local history.

Louise Sandberg, a transplant to New England from Tulsa, Oklahoma, received her B.A. from Brandeis University and right after college worked at the Brown University Archives. She spent a year in graduate school at Hebrew University and worked at the Rockefeller Museum, both in Jerusalem. Her MSc is from Simmons College in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management. She came to the LPL in 1996 as a library assistant and started organizing the historical materials by the summer of 1997. This now has become a separate department with its own reading room with thousands of linear feet of city and corporate records, personal papers, manuscripts, monographs, microfilm, serials, maps, plans, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera.

Moe Savoie, the sixth of seven children, was born and raised in Gardner, MA, after his parents immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1960’s from New Brunswick, Canada, to work in the factories of Greater Gardner. He holds an associates degree in Data Processing from Mount Wachussett Community College, a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Framingham State University and currently works as a Principal Software Performance Engineer for Constant Contact in Waltham, MA. He became a volunteer with the Chair City Community Art Center when he learned that his brother, Guy Savoie, would be featured in the Chair City Oral History Book Series.

Karl Seidman is an economic development consultant and Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His research and practice interests include local economic development strategy, development finance, neighborhood rebuilding, and commercial district revitalization. He is the author of Coming Home to New Orleans: Neighborhood Rebuilding after Katrina, (2013), Economic Development Finance (2004), and Revitalizing Commerce for American Cities: A Practitioner’s Guide to Urban Main Street Programs (2004).

Elise Selinger is a second year Masters in City Planning student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is studying real estate development and housing policy. She is also working in the Real Estate division of Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly (JCHE). Prior to MIT, Elise was Co‐op Preservation Associate at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board in New York City, advising limited equity housing cooperatives on legal issues and major capital improvement projects.

Craig Thomas is Chief Design Planner in the LDPD. He leads a team that directs public construction projects, oversees management of the City’s assets, and secures grant funding for signature initiatives. His previous work included management of Lowell’s urban renewal areas, which include the City’s signature $800M+ public‐private partnership redevelopment initiative known as the Hamilton Canal District. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and a Master’s degree in Economic and Social Development of Regions from UMass Lowell.

Katie Vooys is a nursing major at UMass Lowell and is a member of the Honors College. She is expected to graduate in December 2016. She grew up in Chelmsford and currently resides in Lowell. In her free time, Katherine enjoys reading and playing the piano.

Richard “Rick” Wetmore’s professional career as a Program Manager and Systems Engineer spanned over 40 years with a background in maritime radar and navigation technologies. Born and raised in Lawrence, his immigrant ancestors are deeply rooted in Lawrence’s history, having emigrated in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries from England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada to work in the mills. A longtime member of the LHC and in recent years a volunteer, Rick has collaborated on a number of projects, the most recent being the Urban Renewal Map Project.

Bernice Yeboah is a third year student at UMass Lowell where she is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration degree with a dual concentration in Accounting and Finance. Her goal is to finish her undergraduate degree and start on her master’s degree right away as part of the UMass Lowell 4+1 program. She strives to one day become a forensic accountant. An Honors student and very active on campus, she takes part in many student organizations. Her actions are guided by the philosophy “Do something today that your future self will be proud of”.

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Event Sponsors and Partners:

ECCF—Rosman Family Fund Catherine McCarthy Memorial Trust

Rosalyn Wood 2011 Charitable Annuity Trust

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For registration information, please visit: www.lawrencehistory.org/education/summer/2016

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Lawrence History Center 3rd Annual North Canal Classic 5k Run/Walk, Plus Kids Canal Dash!

…a scenic run through the city's revitalization of local parks and historic mill buildings.

Date: Sunday, May 15, 2016 Time: 9:00 am start time Start/Finish line: Corner of Union and Canal Streets, Lawrence Registration and Parking: Everett Mills, 15 (Logo design by Robert Lussier) Union Street, Lawrence

Register online at: http://www.lawrencehistory.org/northcanalclassic

Registration Fees: 5k Run/Walk Individual Entries: $25.00; Kids Canal Dash Entries: $5.00 (ages 12 and younger); Groups of 10 or More Entries: $15.00 a person.

For more information and to reserve your ticket, please visit: www.lawrencehistory.org/dengler/2016/

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About LHC Summer Workshop Founded in 1978 as the Immigrant City We have partnered with Andover Bread Archives by German immigrant Eartha Loaf (an outreach program of Phillips Dengler, the Lawrence History Center’s Research Services Academy) to provide a FREE Lawrence mission is to collect, preserve, share, and Access to our collections and answers to Student Writers Workshop—the Rising interpret the history and heritage of Lawrence research questions are provided to Loaves—for middle school students for and its people. Our initial collection was members with the guidance of staff, three weeks each summer. started at the YWCA and consisted of volunteers, and an expansive network of documents of resident women immigrants. scholars and local historians. Nearly four decades later, we own and are Symposia located at our property at 6 Essex Street, Because of our vibrant academic and Lawrence, Massachusetts in the former Digital Resources community network, we are able to bring Essex Company complex – a site on the Our growing collections are being digitized people together—scholars, graduate, National Register of Historic Places built in and made available through our website, undergraduate, and high school students, 1883 that includes a main office building, OCLC WorldCat, Internet Archive, Digital local historians, etc.—to present research, carpenter shop, blacksmith shop, stable, and Commonwealth, and the Digital Public art, music, and exhibitions around specific warehouse. Library of America (DPLA). subject areas such as the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, post WWII immigration into A variety of other online educational The Lawrence History Center strives to make Lawrence, and the impact of Urban Renewal resources, e.g., interactive tours, video, oral our historic site in downtown Lawrence a on the community. history projects, student and scholarly welcoming place for any and all to spend research, etc., are available on our web site. time, conduct research, connect with others, and participate in special events. Gift Shop Educational Programming We sell Lawrence related books, photographs, postcards, posters, and more Our efforts to link the rich history of Our Collections at our location and online at Lawrence to current local, regional, and Our largest single collection is the Essex www.lawrencehistory.org/giftshop national themes and to foster scholarship at Company business and planning records all levels are furthered through varied place- that meticulously document the building of based learning opportunities. intern, work-study, the city of Lawrence starting in 1845. We also offer Our collections represent content in all Other collections include over 20,000 and directed study opportunities for curriculum areas—math, science, photographs and glass plate negatives, 800 students, as well as, close proximity to other technology, engineering, art and culture, digitally mastered oral histories, mayoral cultural resources and landmarks ethnic diversity, immigration, urban papers, non-current municipal records, planning, engineering, social innovation— church records, organizational records from which allows us to offer custom programs at local businesses and agencies, and an array Contact Us our location and on-site at schools for both of family and individual records that Lawrence History Center students and teachers. document the ethnically diverse and 6 Essex Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 intellectually challenging nature of 978-686-9230 Lawrence. [email protected] www.lawrencehistory.org We engage the community by employing these materials through physical and online exhibits, symposia, educational programs, Illustration (top center): Kate Delaney and research services to foster Photo of LHC (below): Robert Lussier understanding of the interaction of the built community and the lives of those who live and work there.

LHC Board of Directors and Staff

Pamela Yameen Whimpper Barahona Claudia Dengler President Mark Cutler Honorary Board Member

Kathleen Curry Robert Forrant Eartha Dengler Vice President Mary Guerrero Founder Mike Hearn Ellen Minzner Susan Grabski Richard Padova Treasurer Executive Director Chet Sidell Karen Van Welden Herman Jim Sutton Amita Kiley Secretary Mark Svendsen Collections Manager

Founded in 1978 as the Immigrant City Archives, the mission of the Lawrence History Center is to collect, preserve, share, and interpret the history and heritage of Lawrence and its people.

Lawrence History Center·6 Essex Street·Lawrence, MA 01840 978-686-9230·[email protected]·www.lawrencehistory.org

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