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Less than a month after the Lowell-based Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment had to fight its way through a pro-secessionist mob in Baltimore to make it through to Washington, Ben Butler acted decisively and on his own initiative to wrest that key city away from the rebel sympathizers, putting it…
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Read More »Should your tax dollars be used to subsidize mortgages of up to $750,000? My guess is that most people would say no to that and the Feds will soon be bringing policy in line with those sentiments. As reported in today’s New York Times, the size of home mortgages that…
Read More »A unique view of the clock on Lowell City Hall by Tony Sampas
Read More »Lowell Details: The Joseph R. Ouellette Memorial Bridge AKA The Aiken Street Bridge. From Tony Sampas. (Joseph R. Ouellette was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Korea).
Read More »News broke last week that the Coalition for a Better Acre (CBA) is in negotiations to purchase the former St Peter’s Church property, now the home of Cooney Insurance & Real Estate. I spoke with some of those involved last week about the proposal which seems like a good one.…
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Read More »This may sound a bit morbid, but my favorite section of the newspaper is the obituaries. Each story is a history lesson in itself. In a way, the tour I give of the Lowell Cemetery is a series of oral obituaries shared while walking around a beautiful, natural setting. While…
Read More »ESPN Travel came out with its top picks for minor league baseball summer stunts for the coming months. Leading the list is an event that will occur on July 5, 2011 along the banks of the Merrimack River in lovely Lowell during a Spinners game when David Smith Jr fires…
Read More »Jim Peters sent this essay for posting: Jim Neary, of the well-known Lowell Neary family, and I, decided to do a little research on old stone structures which were presumably built by the Native Americans at some point in history. I cannot say that they were built by the Pawtuckets,…
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