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“East Merrimack Street Bridge” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This image was created in response to the visionary urban beautification plan called “Lowell: The Flowering City,” published in the mid-1990s. Readers may have seen the logo of the project on a large sign at the…
Read More »In Massachusetts suffrage for woman began with voting for school committee. Today Mass Moment reminds us that author Lousia May Alcott of Concord, Massachusetts was the first woman to register to vote in that town. Alcott herself held meetings teaching the women of Concord how to vote when the time…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it our too. Congratulations to Boston’s longest serving mayor. In the 1970′s, as a young aide to state Senator Joe Timilty, he told a few Beacon Hill colleagues his goal was to be mayor of Boston. They…
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