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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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Two weeks ago saw three different million dollar plus real estate deals in Lowell (Markley Group/Prince Spaghetti; Lowell Community Charter Public School/Mill No. 5; UTEC/Central, Prescott & Warren Streets). This week there was one deal of that scale: an apartment building at the corner of Stevens Street and Princeton Boulevard…
Read More »June 22, 2015 – Monday 2000 Skyline Dr Unit 6 for $133,900. Prior sale in 2008 for $135,850 106 Methuen St Unit B for $194,000. Prior sale in 2001 for $143,850 99 White St for $185,000. Prior sale in 1966 28 Boylston Ln Unit 28 for $190,500. Prior sale in…
Read More »“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” —Martin Luther King Jr. Usually I don’t use this space to comment on national issues but I believe that history will record this week to be a momentous one in our nation’s story. That demands comment. Confederate…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares the following: I last wrote about Paul beating me at tennis and my beating him at track. After that point, I continued to bicycle (I bicycled an average of thirty-five miles each day), so I did not need a car. We finished painting his front…
Read More »Tomorrow morning at 10 am the fourth edition of Lowell Walks will kick off from the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street. The tour is Literary Lowell and the Pollard Memorial Library. It will be led by Sean Thibodeau, the library’s Coordinator of Community Planning. The tour…
Read More »(transcribed on Thursday, June 25, 2015) “Day Program” at Transitional Living Center Director of Lowell Transitional Living Center (“the Shelter”) speaks to council about its day program which will begin in July. In the past, residents of the shelter had to leave during the day and return at night to…
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Lowell Walks – Lowell High We had another successful Lowell Walks tour yesterday: “Inside Lowell High School” led by Headmaster Brian Martin. 88 people joined the tour which began at the National Park Visitor Center and then moved on to Kirk Street, entering the building at the doorway under the…
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