Fitchburg sentinel and enteprise1/19/2024 ![]() My family, the Manooshians and Mirijanians went into dry-cleaning (Star Cleaners) as did the Chicknavorians (City Cleaners). More than a third (25, including my great-grandfather Martin Manooshian and great-great Uncle Philip) worked nearby at Parkhill Mill. The majority of these (presumably) recent arrivals lived in Ward 2. The 1924 poll tax documents at the Fitchburg Historical Society revealed that within a decade of the 1915 genocide, some 33 Armenian families comprising 77 individuals were paying taxes in Fitchburg. Joseph for those in Cleghorn) and got a job. What opportunities did the newly-arrived Armenians have here? Many Armenian arrivals immediately joined a church (St. However, enough Armenians came to our city to merit a chapter in Doris Kirkpatrick’s splendid and detailed “Around the World in Fitchburg” published in 1975 by the Fitchburg Historical Society. The majority of Armenians coming to New England settled in Watertown, Worcester, Lowell or Lawrence, drawn by the textile and shoe mills. (since burned in the 1990s, and rebuilt). The family settled in Cleghorn, overwhelmingly French-Canadian at that time, in a tenement at 178 Daniels St. My maternal grandparents, Martin Manooshian and Rose Boyajian Markarian Manooshian (she married twice after being widowed) escaped the massacres two decades earlier. My grandfather, Krikor Mirijanian was a child when he survived horrific violence and the deaths of many family members including his mother in his home village of Arapkir, near Harpoot. Two snaps later, Shea Gonynor punched in a one-yard run.Monday April 24 is the 108th commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide: “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.”Īs the granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of survivors, my family and I are grateful that Fitchburg opened its arms to victims who fled Western Armenia (now Eastern Turkey) in 1915 as well as in the mid-1890s (“the Armenian Massacre”). The 42-yard pass was Fitchburg’s longest play of the evening. The FHS senior, who had started the season under center for the Red Raiders, unleashed a deep ball downfield to Salomon, who hauled in the pass and rumbled down to the Leominster 2. He rushed for 82 yards on 20 carries and was the catalyst for Fitchburg’s lone score, setting up the touchdown with a deep pass to Richard Salomon.įacing a second-and-7 near midfield early in the third, Fitchburg quarterback Zacchaeus Collins took the snap and pitched the ball to Beaulac. On a night when the Red Raiders struggled against a tough Leominster side, Beaulac had several shining moments for Fitchburg. “We work every day for this and yeah, we lost, but football’s fun and I’m glad I can be out here playing. “My teammates and I left it all out on the field tonight,” Beaulac said. The smile might have seemed misguided to some, but in reality, it was a masterclass in perspective. … None of these things could erase the smile on the face of Fitchburg’s Lukas Beaulac Wednesday night.ĭespite falling to rival Leominster High 59-7, the Red Raider senior was proud of his effort and thrilled to be able to play the final game of his high school career on as grand a stage as Fenway Park. BOSTON - A runaway loss, blood dripping down his forearm, the end of his high school football career.
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