More than a third (25, including my great-grandfather Martin Manooshian and great-great Uncle Philip) worked nearby at Parkhill Mill. The majority of these (presumably) recent arrivals lived in Ward 2. The 1924 poll tax documents at the Fitchburg Historical Society revealed that within a decade of the 1915 genocide, some 33 Armenian families comprising 77 individuals were paying taxes in Fitchburg. Joseph for those in Cleghorn) and got a job. What opportunities did the newly-arrived Armenians have here? Many Armenian arrivals immediately joined a church (St. However, enough Armenians came to our city to merit a chapter in Doris Kirkpatrick’s splendid and detailed “Around the World in Fitchburg” published in 1975 by the Fitchburg Historical Society. The majority of Armenians coming to New England settled in Watertown, Worcester, Lowell or Lawrence, drawn by the textile and shoe mills. (since burned in the 1990s, and rebuilt). The family settled in Cleghorn, overwhelmingly French-Canadian at that time, in a tenement at 178 Daniels St. My maternal grandparents, Martin Manooshian and Rose Boyajian Markarian Manooshian (she married twice after being widowed) escaped the massacres two decades earlier. My grandfather, Krikor Mirijanian was a child when he survived horrific violence and the deaths of many family members including his mother in his home village of Arapkir, near Harpoot. Schuleit Haber is also embedding herself in the paper's newsroom for the entire 26 day run, which she hopes will be the most unusual in the Sentinel & Enterprise's history.Monday April 24 is the 108th commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide: “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.”Īs the granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of survivors, my family and I are grateful that Fitchburg opened its arms to victims who fled Western Armenia (now Eastern Turkey) in 1915 as well as in the mid-1890s (“the Armenian Massacre”). "We hope that there will be more readers, at least for the 26 days if not beyond." "We have 14,000 readers that are going to get this every single day, but we hope it goes up a little bit," Schuleit Haber said. The paper's actual front page will shift to page three, unless big news breaks. ![]() Each day for the next 26 days a letter of the alphabet will be highlighted on the newspaper's front page by artists, writers and typographers. “It’s the best space in the newspaper - the front page is like the Holy Grail," she said. ![]() Schuleit Haber admits she was surprised that the publisher and owner agreed. (Courtesy Justin Keohane)Įach day for the next 26 days a letter of the alphabet will be highlighted on the newspaper's front page by artists, writers and typographers. Today that letter is A. Artist Anna Schuleit Haber checks out the first day of her alphabet series on the front page of Fitchburg's Sentinel & Enterprise at the paper's printing plant early Monday morning. The Fitchburg Art Museum commissioned Anna Schuleit Haber to create an installation aimed at engaging the community, and her response is a serial work for the local Sentinel & Enterprise. When people in Fitchburg pick up their local newspaper Monday, they’ll find something other than headlines on the front page.
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