'the Lure Of The Spindle': How City Hall Records Tell Story Of Portuguese Immigrants

By Stephanie Murray, Sun Staff, The Sun (Lowell)
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 4:51am

LOWELL -- Frank Sousa is known as a professor and the director of the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research at UMass Lowell.

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