Hey!
So, I went home this past weekend and..yea....didn't get that much done on my topic. But, I have been reading our homework and I like this book a lot more than "Maya of Morganton." I like how she's looking right into the community and how she gives us brief information on the beginning of Lansing and the Industry. After doing the reading, it draws me to the conclusion that I think I'm trying to look for conflict within the community instead of the just looking at the community as a whole. That I'm trying to find what made the women and men of the Lowell tick, when I should just be looking to find what the women and men did around town.
Because of this, I'm going to be searching more deeply into newspapers to find what activities were going on. Also, I really want to know what types of ethnicities came to Lowell at this industrial age and how that affected living situations within the boarding houses. So I think I'm going to start with ancestry.com through MSU to see if there are any census records available and then move on from there.
tut tut for now!
See you in class.
I actually had similar thoughts after reading Reo Joe too, I feel like I am focusing a lot on the conflicts. Good idea about the census records.
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