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Yesterday I posted a review of Massacre on The Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America by Methuen’s Jay Atkinson. Duston’s story is put in the context of the violence and uncertainty in this part of New England at the end of the seventeenth century. There are many…
Read More »I was up late last night, not to watch the Patriots but to finish reading Massacre on the Merrimack, Jay Atkinson’s excellent new book about Hannah Duston and her encounter with Abenaki warriors along the bank of the Merrimack River in March 1697. The 39 year old Duston had just…
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Citywide Parent Council Revival A meeting of a revived Citywide Parent Council of the Lowell Public Schools will be held this coming Monday, November 30, 2015, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Robinson School at 110 June Street in Lowell. (see Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1518314988493770/). This is an…
Read More »The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell this past week: November 23, 2015 – Monday 373 Aiken Ave Unit 8 for $122,000. Prior sale in 2013 for $101,000 204 Crawford St for $302,500. Prior sale in 2000 for $190,000 315 Plain St for $50,000. Prior sale in 1952 171…
Read More »By Fred Faust Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate brokerage and consulting firm, previously was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He shares the following essay: This is another entry in a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative…
Read More »Last night I attended opening night of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. It was excellent and I urge everyone to check it out, especially if you’re not a regular MRT attendee. Performances run from Wednesdays through Sundays between now and December 20.…
Read More »The following is shared on behalf of the National Park Service which is preparing for the 100th anniversary of the birth of John F. Kennedy in 2017. From John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, established as…
Read More »Jim Peters shares another essay in his series on the history of education in Lowell: By the late 1860’s, Lowell had a large part of its population in school. People signed up for night courses in the hundreds and for day courses in the thousands. This was a marvelous…
Read More »The council recognizes and commends six Lowell Firefighters for being honored yesterday by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for their efforts on the evening of July 10, 2014 at the Branch Street fire. Councilor Mercier says people tell her that there are fewer police walking or bicycling. Chief Taylor explains that…
Read More »The Lowell Social Media Conference has been held at LTC on the first Saturday of December for the past few years. I had planned to do that again this year, but with Lowell Walks and the recent publication of my new book, Lowell: Images of Modern America , I thought…
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