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In 1988, the National Park Service and Center for Archaeological Studies at Boston University were asked by the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission to investigate the grounds of the former Boott Mills boarding houses off French Street (one remains today, known as the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center), and the Kirk…
Read More »Tonight seventy or so people gathered at UMass Lowell’s Alumni Hall for the first of two public comment session on the city of Lowell’s draft Master Plan. The full plan is available on the DPD website and a second comment session will be held this Wednesday, January 9th at Lowell…
Read More »The city of Lowell will host a public review and comment session on the city’s draft master plan, “Sustainable Lowell 2025”, tonight at UMass Lowell’s Alumni Hall from 6 until 8 p.m. Alumni Hall is located at 84 University Avenue on the school’s North Campus. A second review and comment…
Read More »From a list included in “The Lowell Board of Trade Year Book, 1911-12,” whose president was Harvey B. Greene. Articles Made in Lowell . “Acids, Advertising Novelties, Ammunition Hoists, Ale, Army Duck, Art Needle Work, Asbestos Machinery, Automatic Time Tables, Automobile Accessories, Automobile Parts, Awnings and Tents, Axminster Carpets, Badges,…
Read More »Image: rjnagle via Flickr / The Journal.ie Little Christmas (Irish: Nollaig Bheag) is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6 – more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Feast of the Epiphany. It is so called because under the older Julian calendar, Christmas Day…
Read More »Rev. Wilson Waters. c. 1891 (Photo by Odin Fitz, courtesy of The Artemas Ward House and Its Collections, Harvard College Library) On October 12, 1910, the Rev. Wilson Waters, B.D., read an essay about writing history at a meeting of the Lowell Historical Society. Wilson is the author of A…
Read More »Earlier today on Facebook I linked to a story about the conservative group “Club for Growth” sending out a “NO Vote Alert” urging all Republican members of the U.S. House to vote “NO” on the bill to expand the National Flood Insurance Program’s borrowing authority by $9.7 billion. This is…
Read More »The following poem is from Paul Hudon’s big poem-a-day book written in 2005-2006, “All in Good Time” (Loom Press, 2011). At various times, Paul has been a professor of history at Merrimack College, curator of pre-industrial artifacts at the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (now the American Textile History Museum in Lowell),…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day January 4, 1884, Harry Haskell Lew – also known as Bucky Lew – was born in Lowell in 1884 to an African-American family with a long and illustrious history in Massachusetts. His great-great-grandfather, Barzillai Lew – a free black man who purchased the…
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