Kittredge Park Picnic on Saturday

July 22, 2016 by DickH Posted in Current Events 2 Comments

This Saturday from 2 pm to 330 pm, a group of Lowell residents will gather at Kittredge Park at the corner of Andover and Nesmith Street to celebrate the park. There will be acoustic music, food, and a talk by me on the history of the park and the story of Captain Paul Kittredge, the man for whom the park is named.

Besides enjoying the park and the company, the gathering will also raise awareness of MassDOT’s plan to cut down a number of trees along the stretch of Nesmith Street between Andover and East Merrimack, in order to widen the road. A public hearing on this plan will be held this coming Thursday, July 28, 2016, at 7 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library.

For more information, check out Aurora’s post on the Learning Lowell blog.

2 Responses to Kittredge Park Picnic on Saturday

  2. Paul Early says:

    Dick, thank you for this information I posted this information on the https://learninglowell.wordpress.com site. Here is the link to Christina Rohrbacher’s petition concerning the proposed widening of Nesmith/Rte 38: https://www.change.org/p/massachusetts-department-of-transportation-save-our-trees-save-kittredge-park.

    Here also is a link to a BBC article about road safety in Australia that is both humorous and serious: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36863324.

    The article is about a sculpture named “Graham.” Graham was designed to show how a man should look to survive car crashes (both pedestrian and driver). There is also a video from Australia that shows how Graham was created: Aurora, thank you again for presenting this information for us. It is very helpful. Here is a link to a BBC article about road safety in Australia that is both humorous and serious: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36863324.