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Culture

Greek-language newspapers, plays and concerts, the Academy of Music on Dummer Street, cultural events, the Hermes Club and the Plato Club for student dramatists, bouzouki players in the coffee-houses - these were a few of the cultural elements found in Lowell's Greek community. At first very oriented toward the homeland, and then more Greek-American in flavor, the local culture blossomed. In 1907, the first of many drama groups was formed; one group produced ten modern plays each year. Local musicians found work at the many dances and Sunday picnics. Walking along Market Street after supper, a mill worker might hear a familiar village song spilling from an open window.

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