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This coming Saturday, May 11, 2013, I will speak about Company K of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment as part of Chelmsford Civil War Day at the Chelmsford Center for the Arts, 1A North Road in Chelmsford (the former town hall). While contemplating the controversial step of instituting a national…
Read More »Many of us in Lowell have for years admired the beauty, grace and vitality of Cambodian culture. It seems like the rest of the United States is catching up. This past Saturday, the New York Times featured two separate stories about different aspects of Cambodian culture. The first explained how…
Read More »Gerry Bisantz sent this review of the student performance of the musical “Once on This Island” at Lowell High School this past weekend: Just a little “shout out” to the kids at Lowell High and the great production of “Once On This Island” their school musical held last Friday and…
Read More »I asked Stacie Hargis to share her remarks from last Thursday’s kickoff of her campaign for Lowell City Council. Here’s what she had to say: Growing up, my father’s job required us to move every three to four years. This meant I lived in many cities and towns around the…
Read More »This Saturday (May 4) I’ll be at the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios from noon until 5pm to sign copies of Legendary Locals of Lowell (books will be available for purchase there) and to talk about Lowell history with anyone who stops by. Since it’s the first Saturday…
Read More »While roaming around the city on foot recently a resident I met showed me the above artifact and asked if I could help identify it. I placed it on my knee and snapped a photo with my phone. The item is about 2 inches long and one-half inch wide. It’s…
Read More »307 Market Street, the Gates Block, built in 1881, which Lowell developer and contractor Nick Sarris has renovated over the past year. The ground floor includes a 2,200-square-foot gallery space, a classroom and an artist’s supply store, Van Gogh’s Gear. The four-story, 16,000-square-foot building has 36 separate working artist studios…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared the following: Richard Howe sightings will still be sporadic as Congressman Markey has a strong contender in Mr. Gomez. In addition to being a strong Latino candidate, Mr. Gomez is a political neophyte, in his first run for public office who finished with over fifty…
Read More »Below is a repost of something I wrote on this day last year. While I would never say that I miss the Soviet Union, I do miss the clarity that came with having a single identifiable adversary in the world. May 1st was always a day on which workers celebrated…
Read More »In yesterday’s U.S. Senate special election primary for the Democrats, Ed Markey defeated Steve Lynch, 309,487 to 229,594 (57% to 43%). On the Republican side, Gabriel Gomez was victorious, receiving 96,072 votes (51%) to Michael Sullivan’s 67,756 (36%) and Danny Winslow’s 24,547 (13%). The above image which shows the town-by-town…
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