Another City upon a Hill: A New England Memoir

A Note on Sources

[199] [ A Note on Sources ] I consulted numerous books and newspaper articles for the more historical sections of this memoir, particularly the first chapter. Some of this material is available online at the Keeley Library (www.sailsinc.org/durfee/fulltext. htm). Philip T. Silvia Jr. has edited three invaluable collections of newspaper accounts. His bulky volumes with numerous photographs also contain informative introductions: Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1865–1885 (Fall River, MA: R. E. Smith, 1987); Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1886–1900 (Fall River, MA: R. E. Smith, 1988); and Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1901–1911 (Fall River, MA: R. E. Smith, 1992). The definitive, detailed history of Fall River was written by Arthur S. Phillips, The Phillips History of Fall River, 3 vols. (Fall River, MA: Dover, 1944–1946). Also helpful, especially for its biographical sketches, is Henry M. Fenner’s History of Fall River (New York: F. T. Smiley, 1906). There are other works of local history that I found helpful. Ellen Fletcher Rosebrock’s Historical Fall River (Fall River, MA: Preservation Partnership, 1978) is an informative architectural-preservation history. Judith Boss’s Fall River: A Pictorial History (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1982) is more than a picture book. Alfred J. Lima and colleagues’ A River and Its City: The Influence of the Quequechan on the Development of Fall River, Massachusetts (Fall River, MA: Green Futures, 2007) reviews much of the city’s history. Carmen J. Maiocco has produced two pamphlets that stimulated my memory: Up the Flint (Fall River, MA: n.p., n.d.) and The Granite Block: Downtown Fall River in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Fall River, MA: n.p., 1994). Equally helpful was The Fabulous 1950s as Recorded in the Fall River Herald News (Fall River, MA: Historical Briefs, 1991). On the Italian community, I have drawn on my brother’s master’s thesis of 1975, which was later published: John J. Conforti, Fall River’s First Italians, 1872–1914 (Fall River, MA: privately printed, 2003). Helpful on the Portuguese is Marsha McCabe, Joseph D. Thomas, and colleagues’ Portuguese Spinner: An American Story (New Bedford, MA: Spinner, 1998). For a mid-twentieth-century Yankee perspective, see James Chace’s What We Had: A Memoir (New York: Summit, 1990). A Note on Sources [200] Three academic works provide detailed portraits of the city’s textile industry and labor strife. I am particularly indebted to Mary H. Blewett’s exhaustive Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in NineteenthCentury New England (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). See also John T. Cumbler’s Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880–1930 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979) and Philip T. Silvia Jr.’s “The Spindle City: Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870–1905” (PhD diss., Fordham University, 1973). The best study of the triple-decker focuses on New Bedford: See Kingston W. Heath, The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001). On the Boston Associates I have found very helpful Robert F. Dalzell’s Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987). In places I have drawn on my own work, especially Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Finally, on Fatima and the Church’s interpretation of the final secret, see Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, The Last Secret of Fatima (New York: Doubleday, 2008). ...