Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian embraces 102-year-old Nellie Nazarian by ‘A Mother’s Hands’ Genocide Memorial after unveiling. Nellie is the lone remaining genocide survivor in Merrimack Valley. (Tom Vartabedian Photo)
Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian embraces 102-year-old Nellie Nazarian by ‘A Mother’s Hands’ Genocide Memorial after unveiling. Nellie is the lone remaining genocide survivor in Merrimack Valley. (Tom Vartabedian Photo)
LOWELL, Mass.—Knot by knot, a mother’s hands weave the history of her people.
Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as
a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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This is a very beautiful as well as very thoughtful memorial.. To all the people that work so very hard on this, thank you.
A magnificent monument for sure. Congratulations to the committee on their dedication and perseverance. If I’m in the Boston area I will be sure to visit and say a prayer there. Please note, although it is one of very few on Government property, it is not the first. there is a plaque embedded in a bolder in front of the county court house in Hackensack NJ that has been there for well over a decade where NJ Armenians gather every April 24 in remembrance, prayer and ceremony.
This is a very beautiful as well as very thoughtful memorial.. To all the people that work so very hard on this, thank you.
This is a unique memorial, which has been erected in front of a government building. Great job done! Bravo!
A magnificent monument for sure. Congratulations to the committee on their dedication and perseverance. If I’m in the Boston area I will be sure to visit and say a prayer there. Please note, although it is one of very few on Government property, it is not the first. there is a plaque embedded in a bolder in front of the county court house in Hackensack NJ that has been there for well over a decade where NJ Armenians gather every April 24 in remembrance, prayer and ceremony.
Thank you for your efforts and hard working.Thsnk you for your existence, dear Varoujan Hejinian. I can’t stop admiring your works!
Thank you Mike for sharing, However, a plaque is not a monument… “A Mother’s Hands” is the first monument on Government property.
http://armenianweekly.com/2013/05/10/april-24-observed-at-bergen-county-courthouse/#prettyPhoto/1/
The committee worked very hard on this project.