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Crafting Reform: The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery with Nonie Gadsden, 6:30-7:45 on September 28

The Saturday Evening Girls’ club was established in 1899 to provide cultural activities for Italian and Jewish immigrant girls who lived in the tenements of Boston’s North End. In 1908, the reform-minded club leaders founded a pottery to provide the girls with a clean and educational venue in which to earn money. They named the enterprise the Paul Revere Pottery in honor of the patriot’s home which stood near their clubhouse, and to emphasize their own desire to be seen as Americans, not foreign immigrants. The pottery exemplified the ideals of the early twentieth-century Arts and Crafts movement, a design reform movement which sought to alleviate the negative social effects of industrialized society by promoting hand craftsmanship, the integration of art into everyday life, and healthy working conditions for artisans.

This lecture is free to the public and can be watched online or in person at Smith Commons (5th floor), Sargent Hall, Suffolk University, 120 Tremont Street.

And stay tuned for these other lectures in our 2026 Lowell Lecture Series:

October 5 – Restoring the Plants, Restoring the Practice with Paula Peters

October 26 – Piece by Piece: Crazy Quilting and Making Memory in 19th-Century Massachusetts with Tenesha Carter Johnson

Imagining Paul Revere’s Legacy in Poetry

Paul Revere was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Paul Revere’s Ride, and, as part of our November 13th 2025 concert program, his life and legacy have also now been explored by Inaugural Commonwealth of Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson in his new poem Dear Paul Revere or Forge, Shape, Shine! We are thrilled to now be able to share a recording and transcript of the poem here.