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Lightning Strike
Friday night a bolt of lightning struck a tree in Lowell Cemetery and removed a 25 foot long strip of bark, starting up high and spiraling down almost to the ground.
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Fall views of Lowell Cemetery
Some photos from yesterday’s tour of Lowell Cemetery:
Read More »Angkor Dance Troupe 25th anniversary celebration
Lowell’s Angkor Dance Troupe will celebrate its 25th anniversary next Saturday night with the world premiere performance of Apsara Dancing Stones at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. (October 27, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.). Here is some information about the Troupe and the event: Angkor Dance Troupe is celebrating 25 years in…
Read More »Sheila Bair endorses Elizabeth Warren
Sheila Bair, a Republican from Kansas who led the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) from 2006 through 2011, endorsed Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy for the US Senate yesterday. During a Business Roundtable discussion at Lowell’s Mambo Grill yesterday hosted by Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (shown above along with, from left, Elizabeth Warren,…
Read More »Lowell Cemetery Tour this Saturday
This Saturday (October 20) at 10 am, I will lead one more tour of historic Lowell Cemetery. This tour was initiated by the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce for its members, but the Chamber has graciously opened it to the public. The tour will begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance…
Read More »Earthquake
Two nights ago – Tuesday, October 16 – many in Lowell felt the tremors from a 4.5 earthquake the struck in southern Maine. Little damage was done and some, like me, didn’t even feel it. Others described it as having someone working on the roof or having a helicopter flying…
Read More »2008 Election Results
With the election just three weeks away, I started thinking about the last presidential election and discovered that I had not added those results to our “elections” page. I’ll put them there now, but here they are in case you’re interested: 2008 Election Results In Massachusetts in 2008, the presidential…
Read More »Freeman Ballard Shedd
In the years before the Civil War, Eli Hoyt was joined by another teenager as employees at Staniel’s drug store. His name was Freeman Ballard Shedd. Shedd was born in Lowell in 1844 and, after working in the drug store for a couple of years, enlisted in the Union Army…
Read More »Patent Medicine in Lowell: Eli Hoyt
Although not medicine, another product that emerged from a Lowell drug store was Hoyt’s German Cologne. Eli W. Hoyt was born in Alexandria, New York in 1838. Eli came with his parents to Lowell when he was eight, attended the local school before starting work at thirteen years as a…
Read More »Grand Opening of UML Emerging Technologies & Innovation Center
Videos of speeches by Governor Deval Patrick, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, and Chancellor Marty Meehan at yesterday’s grand opening of the UMass Lowell Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center. [youtube]IskYSIlljTo[/youtube] [youtube]wJDOyP-riFo[/youtube] [youtube]0957A2BvpSo[/youtube]
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