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Read More »Google Zeitgeist 2012
Here’s Google’s excellent year in review video: [youtube]xY_MUB8adEQ[/youtube]
Read More »Pat Mogan on Lowell
Dr. Patrick Mogan was buried this week. He is best known as the Father of the Lowell National Park but he was much more than that. Is there anyone else in America who served as a city’s Superintendent of Schools and as the community’s chief urban planner? Mogan more than…
Read More »St Patrick’s and Holy Trinity
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Read More »“Visit from St Nick” replay
Here’s a replay of my “Lowell recites a Visit from Saint Nicholas” video [youtube]Ioxqgafd0yY[/youtube]
Read More »Vigil in Lowell for victims of Newtown massacre
More than 50 people gathered this evening at a snow-dusted Tyler Park for a candlelight vigil for the victims of Friday’s mass shooting in Connecticut. With sleet lightly falling, most huddled under the three small canopy tents someone had brought and shared a flame from candle to candle. A couple…
Read More »The coming gun debate
Everyone in America was touched by Friday’s tragedy in Connecticut. Sorrow abounds but so do strong emotions about the role of guns in our society. I have strong feelings on that topic but I think it best to delay writing about them for a while. The debate over guns will…
Read More »Lowell and the Battle of Galveston
The Lowell Historical Society forwarded an email that was addressed to me from some folks who have made a great video from a Civil War era photo album depicting many Lowell residents. The pictures are amazing and, as a bonus, we learn something about the Battle of Galveston which I…
Read More »St Patrick’s School needs a new roof
Dave McKean, keeper of the Lowell Irish blog and a graduate of St Patrick’s School in Lowell, recently paid a visit and learned that besides all the other things needed by this inner-city school that does great work, the facility is in need of a new roof. The sisters who…
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