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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This fall marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley, a pivotal moment in the history of student activism and political organizing that laid the groundwork for the antiwar movement and other social causes. …
Read More »The excitement of this political week has us returning to the archives to remember the live and legacy of the Kennedy family’s maternal grandfather – famed John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. Just two days ago his great-grandson Ted Kennedy, Jr. launched his political career at the state level getting elected to…
Read More »This has been a big week in local and Massachusetts politics. Tom Menino – a beloved, long-term, some would say iconic Mayor of Boston – died before his time. The mighty and the meek celebrated his life. The white-hair and supportive arms of Bill Clinton enveloped the family as pre-schoolers…
Read More »City Councilor Dan Rourke is urging the City Manager to pursue funding for a new public art initiative in Lowell. Blogger Gerry Nutter wrote about this effort and cited the facts behind the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge for Cities: Bloomberg Philanthropies is launching a new program to support temporary…
Read More »Historians at UMass Lowell continue to mine the newly rediscovered archives of the International Institute of Lowell for stories and photographs that help tell the story of the organization and of the city of Lowell. This photo shows at Arabic language class taught by Mrs. Victoria Estfam at the Institute. …
Read More »If you like “war movies”, don’t miss Fury, a new film starring Brad Pitt as a U.S. Army tank commander in Germany during the closing days of World War Two. It’s a little like Saving Private Ryan with armored vehicles. The movie follows the five-man tank crew from engagement to…
Read More »Some of you may be familiar with the story of Normand Brissette. He was a young man from Lowell who left high school to enlist in the Navy during World War Two. Assigned as the gunner/radio operator on a two-seat, carrier-based dive bomber, his plane was shot down just of…
Read More »Thank you to everyone who last night attended or wanted to attend (but could not) the book launch for ‘Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park.” We had a big crowd at the National Park Visitor Center. UTEC provided the food. Park staff made all the…
Read More »White tips on the close-cropped sloping lawns of the Common this morning before the sun is full up. Trees coming to total change, some of them most of the way there. Saturated crimson crown near the corner of Thorndike and Highland. Big honking candy-corn orange maple blasts color near the…
Read More »From its founding in 1915, the International Institute of Lowell has helped countless immigrants who arrived in Lowell in too many ways to list. Recently, an enormous cache of documentary records dating from the earliest days of the Institute were uncovered. Institute staff and historians from UMass Lowell are now…
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