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Dogwood tree in bloom
Tony Sampas captured this picture of a dogwood tree in bloom on the grounds of the Tsongas Center
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Lowell Film Festival begins Thursday
[youtube]9r72aGkShD4[/youtube] The 4th Annual Lowell Film Festival begins tomorrow (Thursday, April 28). The full schedule is available on the Festival’s website. In conjunction with the films being shown, I will conduct walking tours of “Civil War Lowell” on Thursday night at 6 pm (beginning at the Ladd & Whitney monument);…
Read More »Financial education for teens
I spent this morning at the UMass Lowell Tsongas Center participating in the “Money Strong” Fair sponsored by Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union for the benefit of seniors at Lowell High School. It was an amazing event, one that all students (and many adults) should be required to attend. The JDCU…
Read More »“Unreliable Narrator”, new to our blogroll
Please check out “Unreliable Narrator“, the latest addition to our blogroll. Written by Lowell resident Dell Smith, the site provides a movie review each week with great detail and precision. His most recent review is of The Conspirator. Having seen the film last week, I recommend both the review and…
Read More »April 25, 1861 – reinforcements reach Washington
Many in Lowell know the story of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment and its involvement in the Baltimore Riot of April 19, 1861 that cost four soldiers (including Lowell’s Luther Ladd and Addison Whitney) their lives. Few realize that for a week following that incident, Washington DC was at…
Read More »Good Friday 1984: The Cold War turned hot
For two years in the early 1980s I was assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment as an intelligence officer. The unit’s peacetime mission was to patrol the border between West Germany and Czechoslovakia/East Germany. The patrols were conducted by troops on foot, in vehicles and in helicopters like the…
Read More »Supt Scott a finalist in Cleveland
According to this story from wkyc.com, Lowell Superintendent of Schools Chris Scott is one of eight finalists for the school superintendent position in Cleveland. Here’s what the article says about Scott: Lowell, Massachusetts Public Schools Superintendent Chris Augusta Scott became the superintendent of Lowell public schools in March, 2008. Before…
Read More »The Royal Wedding
On the rare occasion I’m watching TV these days, nothing will cause me to change the channel faster than a story on the Royal Wedding. I don’t mean to sound curmudgeonly, but who cares? My negativity is not the result of my Irish heritage nor some kind of popular embrace…
Read More »“Lowell in the Civil War” on Saturday
This coming Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags, I will give a talk on Lowell in the Civil War. The talk will focus on the lives of a number of individuals such as Timothy Crowley (shown above) who are representative of…
Read More »Congressional Redistricting
The Globe has a story by Mark Arsenault speculating that the First Congressional District, which covers close to one-third of the entire geographic area of the Commonwealth and stretches from the New York border to nearby Pepperell and Townsend is the most likely candidate for dismemberment in this year’s Congressional…
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