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Another of a series of articles I’m writing about Lowell in the years and days leading up to the start of the American Civil War is now online on Howl in Lowell. This article examines the city’s small but influential African-American community and the role Lowell played in the Underground…
Read More »When I hear the term “experiential learning” I sometimes suspect it’s another piece of educational jargon but yesterday at the UMass Lowell Tsongas Center I saw first hand the value of such a method of instruction. The Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union held a “Money Strong” fair for more than 200…
Read More »Tonight I attended an excellent program at the Tsongas Industrial History Center on The Lowell Textile Strike of 1912. The program was jointly organized by the TIHC, the Lowell National Historical Park, UMass Lowell, The American Textile History Museum, the Revolving Museum and the Bread & Roses Centennial Committee. The…
Read More »Here’s the latest meeting notice from the East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group: East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group Meeting Monday, April 30th – 7:00-8:30 pm at the Pawtucketville Social Club, 123 University Avenue “We are making extraordinary progress. Come and help us keep up the momentum.” What we have accomplished: • We are…
Read More »When studying history, some years seem more interesting than others. As comedian Robin Williams famously said, “If you remember the 1970s, you weren’t there.” One year deserving of additional scrutiny may be 1912. Just in the month of April you had the sinking of the Titanic and the opening of…
Read More »For more than a century, historians have used 618,000 as the approximate number of men who died in the American Civil War. That number, it turns out, may have significantly underestimated the number of casualties. As reported in the Science section of last Tuesday’s New York Times, a demographic historian…
Read More »The Easter Bunny delivered three dark chocolate butter cream eggs to my basket overnight. In doing so, he – why we assume the Easter Bunny is male is another matter – sought to teach a lesson in comparison shopping. The three eggs appeared identical. Each one weighed 4 ounces, contained…
Read More »A photo for Easter from Tony Sampas
Read More »In this week’s Local History article on the Howl in Lowell website, I write about the Three-Fifths Compromise in the US Constitution, the section of that document that tacitly acknowledged the existence of slavery without ever mentioning that word. While standing firm in opposition to slavery in 1787 may have…
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