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I’ll lead the fall tours of historic Lowell Cemetery this weekend. The same tour will be offered twice: Saturday, September 30, 2023, at 10am Sunday, October 1, 2023, at 10am Both tours begin at the Knapp Ave entrance (77 Knapp Ave on GPS). The forecast for Saturday is for showers…
Read More »Legends of Little Canada: Aunt Rose, Harvey’s Bookland, and My Captain Jack Book by Charlie Gargiulo Review by Richard Howe I first encountered Charlie Gargiulo nearly 40 years ago, not in person but by reputation. Back then, Joe Tully was the Lowell City Manager and the City Council allowed him…
Read More »If You’re Interested in More, I Can Make You a Quotation By Malcolm Sharps Ever since I picked up advert jingles as a child, along with the theme songs from Mr Ed, the Pied Piper and Gilligan’s Island, and later at school I took in more weighty lines from poems…
Read More »This post was scheduled for last week during “Preliminary Election Week” but somehow failed to appear so I’m posting it today. Here are the results of the 1973 Lowell City Council preliminary election: 1. Armand LeMay 8878 2. Robert Kennedy 8623 3. Leo Farley 8088 4. Ellen Sampson 7648 5.…
Read More »The Lowell City Council continues its every-other-week summer meeting schedule, however, the agenda for its regularly scheduled September 12 meeting was so long that the Council, in a rare move, opted to hold a special meeting the following Tuesday (September 19) to complete the items on the agenda. My own…
Read More »Living Madly: Goldfinches By Emilie-Noelle Provost Late summer has always been a relief. By this time of year, I’m sick of hot, muggy weather. I’m tired of air conditioning, and of eating salad for dinner because it’s too hot to use the stove. I long for cool breezes and early…
Read More »Dear Mary Lou by David Daniel Dear Mary Lou, it’s been a long time since you’ve heard from me & vice versa. Why I’m writing now—a total shot in the dark—today I drove across one of the bridges on the Merrimack, the big river here where I live in Lowell,…
Read More »The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here. **** Cornelius F. Kiernan (1917-1996) The Lowell Justice Center was formally dedicated to former Judge and State Representative Cornelius F. Kiernan…
Read More »The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here. **** The Lowell Justice Center was formally dedicated to former Judge and State Representative Cornelius F. Kiernan (1917-1996) on Friday, September…
Read More »The Lowell Justice Center was dedicated yesterday (September 15, 2023) as The Cornelius F. Kiernan Justice Center. Kiernan served as a state representative for nearly a quarter of a century. Here are the results of the various state elections in which he was a candidate. (Through most of his career,…
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