Legends of Little Canada

Charlie Gargiulo’s writing has appeared in The New Lowell Offering, Spare Change, Merrimack Valley Magazine, The Lowell Review, Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell, and Résonance journal at the University of Maine, Orono.He grew up in Dracut and Lowell, Mass., served in the military, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.He founded the Coalition for a Better Acre, a nationally recognized community development group. The International Institute in Lowell honored him as one of the 100 most important leaders in Lowell who have worked on behalf of immigrants.He lives outside of Boston.

Book endorsement“Charlie Gargiulo has unearthed for us a time capsule of treasures—treasures of family, community, and connectedness buried deep by the heartless blows of Urban Renewal’s wrecking ball. With his technicolor remembrances of long-gone neighborhood characters and a wry kid’s-eye-view, we get to navigate the gritty and wondrous streets of Lowell’s Little Canada, excavating young Charlie’s loss and grief as well as his hard-won sense of solidarity, ethical persistence, and justice. Legends of Little Canada is a universal story you’ll want to share across divides of geography, ethnicity, and generation.”—Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie