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Lowell City Hall, Dusk
Photo by Tony Sampas
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Doors Open Lowell
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 »Lowell Cemetery tours this weekend
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 »Is the foreclosure crisis over?
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
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 »Les Miserables – the movie
[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 »First drone launch from aircraft carrier
[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 »Book signing at Whistler House
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…
Read More »Friends of Tyler Park
One of the most beautiful spots in the Highlands neighborhood of Lowell is Tyler Park, located along Westford Street on the way to Drum Hill. For quite a few years now, a group of neighbors has joined together as the Friends of Tyler Park, to supplement the city’s maintenance of…
Read More »A Tree Glows in Lowell
A Tree Glows in Lowell, Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:32 PM. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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