Meet the Manchester Mill workers at Plymouth Historical Society program

PLYMOUTH — Join Plymouth Historical Society on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 5:30 p.m. to learn about the lives of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company’s textile workers. 

The Manchester company, which flourished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was at one point the largest cotton manufacturing company in the world. It employed 17,000 workers drawn from a variety of European countries as well as from French Canada. 

Researcher and author Robert Perrault will describe how people from a variety of backgrounds made the transition from an agrarian lifestyle to an industrial society. We will discover how that change affected families, cultures, the nature of work, and relationships among the workers themselves.

Perrault, named Franco-American of the Year in 2012, has written seven books and more than 150 articles, essays, and short stories published in the US and Canada. He holds a master of arts in French with specialization in New England Franco-American studies from Rhode Island College and a masters of fine arts in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University. He grew up and lives in Manchester and teaches conversational French at St. Anselm’s College. 

For more information, visit plymouthnhhistory.org.