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A Currier & Ives drawing of the Battle of Cedar Mountain on Aug. 9, 1862. Fourteen Lowell soldiers died (taken from Lowell Sun website) In today’s Lowell Sun, longtime staff writer and citizen historian Dave Peaver continues his coverage of Lowell and the Civil War. His focus today is on…
Read More »Ralph Fasanella’s painting “Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike” The history of the Merrimack Valley is twined throughout with many significant issues and events – many related to the causes of the Labor Movement in America. I caught this article the other day in the Eagle Tribune that gives…
Read More »As the recent Lowell Folk Festival reminded us, the current Superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore Park was the Deputy Superintendet here in Lowell for many years. Annually he still leads the opening folk festival parade dancing with his iconic red, white and blue umbrella and his unique festival moves.…
Read More »In the Huffington Post/AOL Business section, UMass Lowell Professor Bill Lazonick of the master’s program in Regional Development contributes his analysis to a story about huge oil industry profits.
Read More »There’s a lot of turmoil today among liberals, progressives, Democrats, or whatever label fits for people who are more inclined to like and support President Obama than not. Maybe it’s time to step back. I just read Nicholas Schmidle’s account in The New Yorker of the raid in Pakistan that put an…
Read More »Jacqueline Bouvier married John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island Jacqueline Kennedy’s official White House portrait From history.com: On this day in 1929, President John F. Kennedy’s beautiful and popular wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is born into a prominent New York family. Jacqueline, or “Jackie” as…
Read More »Mark Arsenault tells us in today’s Boston Globe that the dispute of long-standing between the Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College on one side and the family of William Cardinal O’Connell on the other – has been settled. Those following the lengthy dispute know that the Archdiocese and BC wanted…
Read More »Not only are the national Democrats trying to prevent the US House Republicans from using the debt ceiling crisis to reshape public policy wholesale, they have to monitor the barn door to stop the GOP extremists from rushing in with anti-environmental measures while the spotlight is on the debt issue.…
Read More »Campaign kickoff for Lowell School Committee candidate Kim Scott. And as always, if you know of other candidate videos let me know by commenting below and I will post them too.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. At times, the debt ceiling debate has resembled a schoolyard brawl. We’ve heard everything but “so’s your mother!” But this squabble, now a bloody slugfest, has gotten very dangerous and, even if resolved, will have serious consequences for…
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