These excerpts from author Tom Malloy’s Profiles of the Past are about Irish and Eastern European immigrants in Central Massachusetts. Malloy focuses on the causes of immigration and chronicles the institutions, including churches and benevolent societies, that immigrants created. He stresses the distinction between the “old immigration” of the Irish and the “new immigration” of Eastern Europeans.
Malloy, Tom. Excerpts from”Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”. Millers Falls Publishing Co., 1984. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l07-015/. Accessed on November 21, 2024.
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