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From our friends at “2014 ~ Doors Open Lowell” ~ Over 25 Historic Buildings Open May 15 – 17! The 13th Annual Doors Open Lowell, presented as part of Lowell’s National Preservation Month activities, will take place May 15-17. The event offers an insider’s look into the preservation of over…
Read More »The call for books is out from the Friends of the Pollard Memorial Library! This is a great opportunity for the community to support your public library and the mission and program of the Friends. The Friends of the Pollard Library annual book sale takes place Thursday-Saturday, May 15-17, at the…
Read More »Annual Meeting of the Lowell Historical Society Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 2:00PM Pollard Memorial Library Community Room /Ground Floor Brief Business Meeting / Election of Officers and Directors Followed by a Presentation “Treasures Uncovered: Highlights of the Municipal Archives” Join Lowell Historical Society’s Vice-President Kim Zunino for an introduction to…
Read More »An article in today’s Boston Globe reminded me that tomorrow is the 192nd anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted who as author Carlos Rotella notes is ” the landscape architect — and journalist, conservationist, and public servant — who gave us Manhattan’s Central Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, the Niagara…
Read More »Reminder ~ the next GLAD Meeting is tomorrow ~ SATURDAY! The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD ) will be tomorrow Saturday April 19, 2014 at 8:00 AM SHARP! in our usual location in the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. Five 2014 candidates are scheduled to attend, speak and take questions.…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that writer Lucy Larcom – one of Lowell’s iconic Mill Girls in her youth, died on this day April 17, 1893. In her autobiography A New England Girlhood, Lucy Larcom wrote: “From the beginning Lowell had a high reputation for good order, morality, piety, and all…
Read More »If you think that the Congress of today has always been this way, well just remember Massachusetts Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill – the way he served, his work ethic and the way he ran the House of Representatives when he was “Mr. Speaker.” A man of the 20th Century, he believed that government…
Read More »Education has always been a high priority in Massachusetts even back to its “Bay Colony” days. So it’s important to go back to the archives to remember this important day. MassMoments remind us that on this day – April 14, 1642 – the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the…
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