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[youtube]SsJKc6CJA_s[/youtube] The Tsongas Industrial History Center, located in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in downtown Lowell, celebrated its 20th Anniversary this past Friday with a cake, tours, an exhibit of the Center through the years and a speaking program that featured UMass Lowell chancellor Marty Meehan and Thaleia Tsongas Schlesinger,…
Read More »Here are last Saturday’s and this Saturday’s installments of city council candidate Fred Doyle’s radio campaign: [youtube]qm5yDcCqCIo[/youtube] [youtube]4Kv3iabTJk0[/youtube]
Read More »Unless you’re a runner or a road race fan, stay clear of the Merrimack River and its crossings on Sunday morning. At 8 am, many of hundreds of runners participating in the BayState Marathon and Half Marathon will depart from the UML Tsongas Center and proceed along Pawtucket Street and…
Read More »Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell Massachusetts. Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »[youtube]eQ5xa7AjPXM[/youtube] Newt Gingrich says Barney Frank should go to jail. The Congressman from Massachusetts responds. [youtube]ETq7OFtSJ8U[/youtube]
Read More »Alternate captions: “So you think you have a tough job.” Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »The following is the first of a series of posts about the history of the canals of Lowell. Throughout the 18th century, world demand for lumber from the upper Merrimack River continued to grow. By the end of the American Revolution, lumbermen would routinely cut down trees along the river…
Read More »The Bread & Roses Centennial Committee will host a Benefit Concert on Sunday October 23, 2011 4:00 pm Temple Emanuel, Andover. Performing at the concert will be A Besere Velt: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Boston Workmen’s Circle which will be performing The Cloth From Which We Are Cut: A…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »The Occupy Boston protest has been much in the news lately. The map above shows the portion of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in which most of the action has taken place. To the lower left is South Station; the darker gray shape across Summer Street is the Federal Reserve…
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