Archive for May 31, 2010
LEAVING ROCK HARBOR by Rebecca Chace
The city of Lowell, Massachusetts, was once a thriving home to the textile industry. Just before World War I broke out, the city was at the peak of a huge economic boom. In just a couple of decades however, a slow reversal of fortunes took place. By the early 1920s work was moving south to the Carolinas and once the Depression took hold, the slide was pretty much irreversible.
Rock Harbor, the fictional New England town painted by Rebecca Chase in her new novel, feels a lot like Lowell or even New Bedford, both towns marked by severe downturns in manufacturing industries.
May 31, 2010
Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Contemporary, Historical Posted in: Class - Race - Gender, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Facing History, NE & New York, Time Period Fiction 
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