Lowell Lecture
Mill Talk: The Charles Dickens Lecture
Date & Time
Dec. 9, 2020 at 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Located in the Historic Francis Cabot Lowell Mill
Park in the Embassy Theatre Lot — GPS "42 Cooper Street, Waltham"
154 Moody Street Waltham, MA 02453
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
J.T. Turner
Presenting Organization
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Topics
Contact
Bob Perry (director@charlesrivermuseum.org, 17818935410)
Charles Dickens was renowned for his lectures, as well as his books. This holiday season, join us for Mr. Dickens’ newest lecture, streamed live from Main Gallery of the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, located in the last boiler house of Francis Cabot Lowell’s first textile mill.
Mr. Dickens, portrayed by educator and Shakespearean actor J.T. Turner, will share historically accurate musings on his life, his work, and his love of Christmas. He will discuss his February 1842 visit to one of the Waltham team’s later mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the contrasts with Dickens’ less flattering observations of other parts of America, and with the misery he witnessed in the treatment and experience of England’s working class. It is the latter that, in part, inspired his most beloved work, “A Christmas Carol.”
Dickens will share passages from “A Christmas Carol” and other works to illuminate his life story and philosophies.
This Mill Talk will stream live on YouTube and Facebook. It will reside permanently on the Museum's YouTube Channel.