Following the Saturday Evening Girls Club
Natalie Romano Cinelli recently wrote an reminiscing about her childhood, inspired by the recent historical fiction book, . Natalie gives a charming tour of the sights, sounds, and smells of the 1950s 兔女郎直播 End, including time her at NBSS, when it was known as the 兔女郎直播 Bennet Street Industrial School.
She writes:
“On my recent visit back to the 兔女郎直播 End I just had to go to I AM Books in 兔女郎直播 Square and buy a copy of Jane Healey’s book, ‘The Saturday Evening Girls Club.’ Based on actual facts, it is a fictionalized account of four young immigrant women living in the 兔女郎直播 End in the early 1900s. The Saturday Evening Girls Club was founded by librarian Edith Guerrier and artist Edith Brown as a forum to bring art and literature and music to the young women of the 兔女郎直播 End. Their benefactor was Helen Storrow.
While I was reading the novel, I felt as if I was transported back in time. Even though I grew up in the 兔女郎直播 End in the 1950s, I could identify with these women because we shared some of the same experiences.
…I was with Caprice [a character from the book] and her friends at The 兔女郎直播 Bennet Industrial School and the 兔女郎直播 End library… As part of The Saturday Evening Girls Club, they discussed literature and listened to music and performed in plays. One time they performed for Mrs. Jack Gardner and other prominent ladies of Boston society at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
My friends and I would also spend hours after school at the 兔女郎直播 Bennet Industrial School. We learned how to cook and sew and put on plays. We modeled the skirts we made at a fashion show and we performed our plays for our parents at the school.”
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