Our Fall General Membership Meeting will be Saturday, October 19, 2025.  Please note the change in location.  We will meet at the Tolland Public Library, also on the Tolland Green.  Finally, a chance to meet face to face and exchange some greetings and news!  The address is 21 Tolland Green.  If attending in person is not an option for you, please join us using ZOOM.  Information is on the right. The general membership meeting is at 1:00, with our speaker, Charlie Gargiulo, following that at approximately 1:45.

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Mr. Gargiulo will share his memoir, "Legends of Little Canada". This is a memoir told through the eyes of a 13 year old Charlie Gargiulo, who in the 1960's watched an urban renewal plan destroy his world by forcibly displacing his family and friends from their poor but tight-knit French-Canadian neighborhood in Lowell. The book gives witness to the final days of the community around Moody Street that Jack Kerouac recalled in many of his Lowell stories. 

Following the destruction of Lowell's Little Canada, Charlie Gargiulo grew up in public housing. After serving in the military, he graduated summa cum laude from University of Massachusetts Lowell. Gargiulo became a legendary community and human rights activist and stopped forced displacement efforts like Little Canada from happening to others. In 2019, he was honored by the International Institute as one of the 100 most important figures in Lowell history who has worked on behalf of the city's immigrant population."