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I was an early adopter of the Flip video camera. Small, simple and inexpensive, the Flip yielded many interesting videos for me. I’ve urged many people to buy one of their own. Flip’s popularity was confirmed two years ago when Cisco, the wildly successful computer networking company purchased Flip for…
Read More »The commemorative booklet published in conjunction with Lowell’s Centennial in 1926 contained brief sketches of some of the city’s most significant buildings. Here’s what was written about Lowell High School: In preparation for the erection of our new High School building, which was completed and occupied in 1922, all the…
Read More »A Washington Post article reprinted in yesterday’s Globe reported that the Obama administration and federal regulators are proposing that federally backed mortgages in the future only be granted to borrowers who are able to make a down payment of 20% of the purchase price. With the median US house price…
Read More »The American Civil War began 149 years ago today. The city of Lowell played a prominent role in that conflict so over the next week or so I plan to highlight some key events that occurred on each day back in 1861. The South Carolina coast is characterized by numerous…
Read More »Incredible photos of Pawtucket Falls in the spring from Tony Sampas
Read More »A variety of notices from different city offices bring news of a variety of events of the non-cultural/historic type (there are plenty of those in other posts). Here’s a sampling: The city’s Green Building Commission invites the public to attend its next meeting on its Green Restaurants program which will…
Read More »A gorgeous spring evening was the perfect backdrop to the city of Lowell’s 175th birthday party. While the brisk breeze may have strained the arms of those carrying the national flags of the many countries from which Lowell’s citizenry originated, it made the flags much more visible as they were…
Read More »On March 1, 1926, the city of Lowell held an all-day observance of its one hundredth anniversary as a town. The day began with 4000 students at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium and another 2000 at the Cyrus Irish Auditorium at Lowell High. Here’s the schedule for the morning program: 1.…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. In May 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent. I feel safe in predicting it will be a long time before we…
Read More »Today’s Parade magazine is largely devoted to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War which begins this Tuesday (April 12, the day that Fort Sumter was fired upon). Turner Classic Movie host Robert Osborne lists his “five top Civil War films.” Among them are three that are to be shown…
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