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Someone who recently visited Buenos Aires sent me this photo of the burial place of the famed boxer Luis Angel Firpo in La Recoleta Cemetery. Firpo is perhaps most famous for his 1923 fight against Jack Dempsey in which he knocked Dempsey out of the ring. Dempsey returned just in…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some photos of the Boott Dam Gatehouse
Read More »Ready to take one of his always excellent photos of Lowell places and things yesterday morning, Tony Sampas was encouraged by these two friendly and photogenic Lowell High students to try some portraiture. Tony obliged.
Read More »It’s Friday night and I have a few minutes to catch up on the news. Here are some things that caught my eye: A year or so ago the New York Times launched a hyperlocal blog covering the Fort Green neighborhood in Brooklyn. I glance at it occasionally to see…
Read More »This coming Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 11:30 am at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street, I’ll be presenting a lecture on Lowell and the start of the American Civil War. The program is free and open to the public. It will cover events leading up to…
Read More »Tony Sampas took these photos of dusk on March 24, 2011 as seen through the window shades of the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell
Read More »One hundred years ago today one of the deadliest fires in American history occurred at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. The company occupied the upper floors of the Asch Building (shown below) which is just east of Washington Square Park and Greenwich Village. Despite the heavy loss…
Read More »Today’s Globe had a very un-Globe-like headline (“Whites still abandoning cities in Mass) above a story on the just-released data from the 2010 census. The story reports that 43 of 45 large communities “saw declines in white population” and that fourteen of them — including Lowell — dropped by double…
Read More »A variety of eye maladies has kept me visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary regularly for the past dozen years. I’ve always been pleased and thankful for the treatment I’ve received there, so much so that this year I began making a modest donation to the hospital’s annual fund.…
Read More »The two Concord River ducks shown in today’s Lowell High Photo Blog selection remind us that spring has arrived.
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