Dickens on the Line Assembly Line Workshops for School Groups
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24–25, 2012
The Tsongas Industrial History Center is offering a special Dickens on the Line workshop, an inspired adaptation of our Workers on the Line program. Students will meet costumed staff; take part in a Dickens-themed assembly line activity; discuss child labor issues during Dickens’ time and the present day; and visit worker housing where they will complete a letter home, describing a boardinghouse from the 1840s, as Dickens did in American Notes.
After Charles Dickens visited Lowell in 1842, he wrote, “I have carefully abstained from drawing a comparison between these factories and those of [my] own land ... The contrast would be a strong one, for it would be between the Good and Evil, the living light and deepest shadow.” The Dickens on the Line workshops connect Lowell’s labor history to Dickens’s world. To reserve, call 978-970-5007. School program fee: $195
Dickens on the Line is part of the Charles Dickens bicentenary celebration, featuring the major exhibition, Dickens & Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation, and over fifty public programs from March 30 - Oct. 19, 2012.
For more information, see the Dickens & Massachusetts website.
