Lowell Walks

For Saturday’s Legends of Little Canada walking tour, we will be there at 10am despite the rainy forecast. However, if the rain becomes too heavy, we may cut the tour short. In any case, we will do the same tour again in the spring.

Here’s a second, all new, virtual tour of historic Lowell Cemetery. Today’s tour features: Two Lowell residents who served as governor of Massachusetts A young mother and daughter who lost their lives at sea A Civil War soldier from a prominent Centralville family who lost his life to Confederate raiders…

In response to the public health-related postponement of yesterday’s Lowell Walk on the Irish Acre, here is a virtual tour of a portion of that neighborhood. The text is based on the script I used to lead this tour in April 2016. The tour Dave McKean would have given yesterday…

Lowell Walks is back in 2020, bigger and better than ever. This year, we’ve partnered with Lowell National Historical Park to offer 25 different Saturday morning walks. Here they are: March 7 at 10am: Women’s Activism in Lowell Walk with Resi Polixa, Allison Horrocks, Anne Mulvey, and Sheri Denk –…

The spring 2019 tours of Lowell Cemetery, originally scheduled for this Friday, May 3, at 1pm and this Saturday, May 4, at 10am, have been rescheduled. The new dates are: Friday, June 14, 2019 at 1pm Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 10am Both tours begin at the Lawrence Street gate…

This Saturday’s Lowell Walk will feature the Hamilton Canal District and will be led by Claire Ricker of the city’s Department of Planning and Development. The walk begins at 10 am at Lowell National Park Visitor Center and will last about 90 minutes. It’s free and there is no need…

Lowell Walks resumes this Saturday, August 11, 2018, at 10am from the Lowell National Park Visitor Center with a “Downtown Art Galleries” walk led by Liz Stewart of COOL. The walk will visit The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, the Arts League of Lowell, the Whistler House, the New England…

The topic of tomorrow’s Lowell Walk is the Hamilton Canal Innovation District. The walk will be led by Claire Ricker of the city’s Department of Planning and Development. The walk begins at 10 am from Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street. Claire will update us on the…