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Yesterday I attended an outstanding program presented by Cliff Hoyt and the Lowell Historical Society on “J. C. Ayer and Company during the Civil War.” The Lowell-based Ayer company was one of America’s most prominent producers of patent medicine during the nineteenth century. Its founder was James Cook Ayer who…
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Read More »Fred Doyle returned to the radio airwaves today: [youtube]ujqVi2Ucg08[/youtube]
Read More »I spent this afternoon in Cambridge and caught some of the Head of the Charles Regatta and the Princeton at Harvard football game which Harvard won, 56-39. Here’s a brief video slideshow: [youtube]pepWo167gcc[/youtube]
Read More »Lowell received its charter as a town in 1826 and for the next few decades, the explosive growth of the textile mills, the canals, and the population made that era the focal point of most of our current historical musings. But English settlers had arrived in this region nearly two…
Read More »The death of Muammar el-Qaddafi yesterday was a triumph for all civilization. He was a terrorist who was responsible for many deaths, including the passengers and crew of Pan Am flight 103 who died when a bomb planted by Libyan intelligence agents exploded when the plane reached a certain altitude…
Read More »Yesterday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision in Bevilacqua v US Bank, a case that involved a defective mortgage foreclosure. Contrary to what is implied by the Boston Globe’s headline – Mass ruling on foreclosure deals leaves buyers in limbo – Bevilacqua does not radically change things, it…
Read More »The proposed redistricting map that was released the the legislature’s Joint Committee on Redistricting this afternoon left the three state representative seats in Lowell almost entirely intact. In fact, the only change I could see from the current district occurred in the 16th Middlesex, now represented by Tom Golden. The…
Read More »The following is the second in my series of posts about the canals of Lowell. The first described the Pawtucket Canal. The Proprietors of Middlesex Canal received its charter as a Massachusetts corporation on June 22, 1793, just a year after the incorporation of the group that would build the…
Read More »The figures beneath Debussy depict his two best-known works: “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn” and “Pelleas et Melisande.” This 1987 sculpture is located on the South Campus of UMass Lowell near Durgin Concert Hall for the Performing Arts. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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