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The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: July 6, 2015 – Monday 1431 Pawtucket Blv Unit 22 for $185,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $152,500 129 Branch St for $80,000. Prior sale in 2012 for $100,000 52-54 Gershom Ave for $235,000. Prior sale in 1981 July 7,…
Read More »Julie Mofford, a former staffer at the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, who currently lives in midcoast Maine where she writes and works as a museum and historical society consultant, recently posted on Amazon.com her review of Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park, a 2014 book…
Read More »The Lowell Walks guided downtown walking tour series resumes this Saturday with The Irish in the Acre to be led by Dave McKean. A history teacher and the archivist of St. Patrick’s parish, Dave regularly leads this tour as part of Irish Cultural Week (although he had to cancel it…
Read More »John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues. Here is his latest: A single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. – Supreme…
Read More »Here are Lowell real estate sales from last week. The last day of June is always a busy one for sales but with Friday being the day before the 4th of July, activity really fell off by the end of the week. June 29, 2015 – Monday 65-67 Gates St…
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With no city council meeting on the Fourth of July holiday, this was a quiet week in Lowell politics. It was also the halfway point of 2015. This week I’ll take a step back and take a broader view on two fronts: the upcoming city election and the Lowell real…
Read More »Joseph Plumb Martin was born in 1760 in Western Massachusetts and enlisted in the Continental Army as a teenager at the start of the war and served for the duration. In 1830, he anonymously published a memoir of his service called A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier. I picked up…
Read More »This past Saturday, eighty people participated in the Literary Lowell edition of Lowell Walks. Tour guide Sean Thibodeau, the Coordinator of Community Programming at the Pollard Memorial Library, prepared a handout that listed many books about Lowell or written by people from Lowell, and added the names of other notable…
Read More »The following post appears on the Keepers of Tradition blog which is written by Maggie Holtzberg, Ph.D., the Commonweath’s Folklorist at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The Lowell Folk Festival is held each year in Lowell during the last weekend of July. The full schedule for this year is available on…
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