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With the election on Tuesday, June 25, this gathering on Saturday, June 1 at 4 pm at Hookslide Kelley’s should fire up those who already support Ed Markey while also providing a great opportunity for those who are undecided to hear directly from Ed and from some of his strongest…
Read More »If you follow me on Twitter (@DickHowe) or if you glance at my Twitter feed in the righthand sidebar of this site, you have noticed that each afternoon I do a Tweet with that day’s real estate sales of property in Lowell (information that is freely available to anyone on…
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Read More »Last night’s reception at the Lowell National Park kicked off Doors Open Lowell weekend. This is a great opportunity to visit some of our city’s most unique buildings and tour them in a “behind the scenes” way that is unavailable at most times. Here’s the schedule: Friday, May 17, 2013…
Read More »Beautiful weather is forecast for this coming weekend, so please consider coming on a tour of Lowell Cemetery. The tours begin this Friday at 1pm and this Saturday at 10am. Both tours begin at the cemetery’s Lawrence Street entrance and last about 90 minutes. The tours are free and no…
Read More »Earlier this week there was a wave of stories in the mainstream media announcing that the foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts had ended. That came as news to me. As I wrote last week in the aftermath of my speech at the annual meeting of the Lowell Housing Partnership, the real…
Read More »Flashboard: “a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity. Also called stop log, stop plank” Photo and caption by Tony Sampas.
Read More »[youtube]OSjbdufL828[/youtube] I finally got a chance to see the 2012 movie version of Les Miserables starring Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. I’d seen the stage version of the musical several times and always enjoyed it so I was curious how it would translate to the movie screen. Very…
Read More »[youtube]_FMvNrkwmi0[/youtube] The above video from the US Navy’s YouTube channel shows the first-ever launch of an unmanned drone from the deck of an aircraft carrier using the same steam catapult that thrusts traditional Naval aircraft into the sky. This aircraft, the X-47B, looks huge for a drone. Just compare it…
Read More »This Wednesday night (May 15) at 7pm, I will be at the Whistler House Museum of Art along with my co-author, Chaim Rosenberg, to talk about and sign copies of our book, Legendary Locals of Lowell. The Whistler House is a great museum with many wonderful paintings on display and…
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