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UMass Lowell Health and Social Sciences Building, South Campus
UMass Lowell Health and Social Sciences Building, South Campus. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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UTL Candidates debate: Group II
Here are the opening and closing statements of the second group of city council candidates from last night’s forum sponsored by the United Teachers of Lowell: [youtube]OEXAEwzCFUI[/youtube] [youtube]0WwfQOJmak8[/youtube]
Read More »UTL Candidates debate: Group I
Here are the opening statements and the closing statements of the first group of city council candidates from last night’s forum sponsored by the United Teachers of Lowell: [youtube]DA_stwp3B6w[/youtube] [youtube]mITlhiAXieM[/youtube]
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Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »L Rodger Currie, RIP
When I flipped to the obituary page of today’s Globe and found myself staring into the eyes of the World War Two airman shown above, I just had to read the story. Imagine my surprise when I learned the deceased, L. Rodger Currie, was a “longtime dentist in Chelmsford” who…
Read More »J C Ayer & Company
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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Ivy, our 3-year old Yellow Lab
Read More »Fred Doyle on the radio – October 22, 2011
Fred Doyle returned to the radio airwaves today: [youtube]ujqVi2Ucg08[/youtube]
Read More »Head of the Charles & Harvard football
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 »Revolutionary War era deed
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…
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