Linda Rosenlund
I got involved in the Worcester Women’s History Project in 1999 and I’ve been involved since and I helped establish this oral history program. I think it’s a very important program for the city and really beyond that because as I mentioned, I had gotten interested in genealogy and my family from Southern Italy they didn’t—my grandmother—my great-grandmother didn’t even know how to write so when she came to this country all I have is an “X” from her in her signature block with her passport. So when I started to do genealogy, I couldn’t find any letters or diaries or anything like that because she couldn’t even write, but it doesn’t mean that her life wasn’t important. So she would be considered an ordinary woman, but she did great things for her neighborhood and for her family and I wanted to make sure we could capture the stories of women and that was really the genesis of my thought.
Linda Rosenlund was born in Worcester in 1960 and grew up in Bellingham, Massachusetts after the age of seven. After graduating from Assumption College in 1982, she got married and worked a few different jobs before finally working where she is now, at Assumption College. In this interview, Linda discusses her life story, including her various jobs, her experience with her family, and her affiliation with the Worcester Women’s History Project. Linda was raised in a family which was held up by traditional values through her father.