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When Charles Dickens came to America in 1842, one of his goals was to promote copyright laws as a way of protecting the creative product of artists, writers and musicians. This Thursday night (April 5 at 7 pm) at UMass Lowell’s O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, UMass…
Read More »Another amazing photo from Tony Sampas
Read More »Thanks to the Chelmsford Patch for these early results: Selectmen (2 seats) George Dixon – 3251 Pat Wojtas – 3085 Roland van Liew – 2376 Jim Murray – 1614 New Fire Station Yes – 2468 No – 2162
Read More »Inspired by a similar effort in Cambridge, a largely anonymous group of Lowell residents transformed the vacant storefront on Market Street between Brew’d Awakening and TD Bank into a colorful proclamation of why so many like the city of Lowell so much. If you’re downtown today, stop by, check it…
Read More »My recent article in the local history section of Howl in Lowell (Andrew Jackson, Charles Dickens and Lowell) told the story of visits to Lowell by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 and English novelist Charles Dickens in 1842. My story prompted Eileen Loucraft to compile a list of all US…
Read More »As many of you may have read last week, Jackie Doherty has returned to blogging. Although she’s awaiting some technical tweaks to her site, she has resumed adding content and has given us permission to cross-post her review of last night’s Festival of Women Playwrights (aka FemNoire) from the Whistler…
Read More »More than 100 people gathered at the Tsongas Industrial History Center at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum earlier this evening for the opening reception for “Dickens and Massachusetts” which commemorates his 1842 visit to Massachusetts which included a day in Lowell which made a deep impression on the famous English…
Read More »“National Trolley Museum, 25 Shattuck Street” by Tony Sampas
Read More »The Greater Lowell Bar Association held a retirement celebration for the Honorable Paul Chernoff today at the Lowell Superior Court. Judge Chernoff, who has sat at the Lowell courthouse more than perhaps any other Superior Court judge over the past decade, had officially retired several years ago upon reaching age…
Read More »Within a single decade, two of the most influential men in the early eighteenth century, Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickens, both visited Lowell. What they saw here greatly influenced their views of the coming age of industrialization. On the eve of the grand opening of the Dickens and Massachusetts exhibit…
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