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The past two summers, teams of archaeologists from Queen’s University in Belfast have traveled to Lowell to conduct a dig on the grounds of St. Patrick’s Church in partnership with UMass Lowell and St. Patrick’s Parish. The the excavations and related research have yielded much of interest about Lowell’s earliest…
Read More »Yesterday (June 30, 2012) was Edith Nourse Rogers Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts per order of Governor Deval Patrick. In honor of the former Congresswoman from the Fifth Congressional District, a small ceremony was held at the Allen House of UMass Lowell where a proclamation from the governor was…
Read More »[youtube]5ulYGXQVuL4[/youtube] Steve O’Connor sent along a link to the above YouTube video of 12 year old Quinn Sullivan of New Bedford, Massachusetts performing at a club in Albany where he was the opening act for Blues legend Buddy Guy. I suspect we will hear from this young man again.
Read More »The last day of June was historically one of the busiest days of the year at the registry of deeds for a number of reasons: the last day of the month is always busy; many people hold off on moving into new homes until after school is out; and some…
Read More »Governor Deval Patrick has just proclaimed June 30th as Edith Nourse Rogers Day in Massachusetts. Rogers was the member of Congress who represented Greater Lowell from 1925 until her death in 1961. Though a Republican, she was a strong supporter of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal but she is best known…
Read More »During my nearly ten years of practicing law, I repeatedly was reminded that every trial has its own dynamic and that someone not part of that trial, who was not present for the entire proceeding, was usually clueless in trying to predict the result. Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the…
Read More »I just returned from a long weekend in New York City. Over the next few days I’ll do some blog posts about sites and stories from the trip. Today, the National 9/11 Memorial: The National 9/11 Memorial is a fitting tribute to those who perished on September 11, 2001. The…
Read More »Local author and sometimes blog contributor Steve O’Connor makes note of the evolution of critters in the neighborhood: As I drank my coffee on the deck this morning, I could hear the hawks calling to each other high in the pine trees near, appropriately enough, Pine Street. I don’t recall…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas.
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