Melanie R. Meadors is a public historian who lives in central Massachusetts, where she has been surrounded by industrialization and deindustrialization all her life. Her family has a long history of working in factories, and the history of these factories, who built them, who worked at them, what technologies they employed, how they impacted their communities while they thrived and declined, and what remains of these places now are all things that have held a lifelong fascination for her.
Melanie lives in a house that was built in 1915 as part of a planned community affiliated with an abrasives factory in Worcester, MA. She writes about history for popular audiences, and enjoys putting working people and places of both the past and present on the map.