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The recent release of the 2010 census got me thinking about the demographics of Lowell. That prompted me to open my copy of “The Record of a City: A Social Survey of Lowell Massachusetts”, a fascinating book written by George F. Kenngott in 1912. The book is both enlightening and…
Read More »Tony Sampas gives us some close-ups of the machinery that helps run Lowell’s canals.
Read More »The City of Lowell’s Department of Planning and Development hosted a public meeting last night at the Pollard Memorial Library meeting room to update residents on plans to renovate the city’s South Common. DPD’s Rachel Kisker facilitated the meeting and landscape architect Nina Brown (whose first project in Lowell was…
Read More »Guy Lefebvre of the Lowell Gallery has a terrific collection of Civil War prints and memorabilia. Many of the images used to illustrate my talk on Sunday about “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War” came to me courtesy of Guy. Please visit his shop and check out…
Read More »Textile Bridge in Lowell by Tony Sampas
Read More »Today’s entry from the Lowell High Photo Blog (I believe the Owl was part of a science class exhibition and not roaming around downtown).
Read More »Yesterday I wrote about how, in the days following the April 19, 1861 riot in Baltimore that cut off Washington, DC from New England and the Atlantic states, General Benjamin Butler of Lowell opened a new line of communications to Washington by going through Annapolis. A long-term solution required the…
Read More »Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s lecture on “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War.” While the riot in Baltimore on April 19, 1861 which cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Charles Taylor and Sumner Needham and left two dozen of their comrades in the Sixth Massachusetts…
Read More »One of the photographers at the Lowell High photo blog zoomed in on this face carved in the facade of the Pollard Memorial Library.
Read More »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…
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