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Next Thursday night, September 22 at 7:00 pm, at the Pollard Memorial Library, historian Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg, will discuss his book, The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817 as part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lectures. Last winter, shortly after the publication of this book, I traveled to…
Read More »No, I’m not talking about the latest local political melodrama; I’m talking about stairs. I’m reading “At Home: A short history of private life” by humorist Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods, The History of Nearly Everything) in which Bryson deconstructs the modern residence and explains the history of…
Read More »Adirondack Chair Installation at Boarding House Park in Lowell. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »So says City Manager Bernie Lynch in a letter addressed to the newspaper’s publisher and editorial board. The entire letter was posted today on the City Manager’s blog. The “misleading, incomplete and biased” labels were used by the manager to describe the newspaper’s recent reporting on the city’s Developmental Services…
Read More »Earlier today I had an appointment in downtown Lowell and I wisely walked to it. Had I taken my car, I believe it would have taken longer to reach my destination. The photo above was taken from the vicinity of Jackson Street looking down Central towards Prescott. The bumper to…
Read More »Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church at 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way (just to the north of the North Common). Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Thanks to WHDH-TV channel 7 for this report on a fire at Lowell’s Holy Family Church (also known as St Marie’s Church, located on Chamberlain Street near the Woburn Street exit of Rte 495) that trapped two firefighters in a smoke-filled basement. Fortunately, they were quickly rescued by their comrades:
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s amazing that so much of the negotiation of a casino-and-slots bill has gone on behind closed doors. After proposals had sucked much of the oxygen out of the air last year, Governor Patrick and legislative leadership, especially…
Read More »This past weekend I created a “2011 Lowell City Council election” page where I would compile links to YouTube videos and other electronic material by and about the candidates. I invited the various campaigns and anyone else to forward to me (DickHoweJr[at]gmail.com) links to anything that I had missed. I…
Read More »Ten years ago tonight, just two days after the most devastating terrorist attack in American history, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson identified the perpetrators: [youtube]H-CAcdta_8I[/youtube]
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