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Owl Eyes
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).
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Ben Butler saves Washington, Part II
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…
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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 »The face on the facade of the Pollard Library
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 »The Wild Bull of the Pampas
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 »Boott Dam Gatehouse
Tony Sampas shares some photos of the Boott Dam Gatehouse
Read More »“Hey mister, take our picture”
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 »Catching up on the news
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 »Civil War lecture this Sunday
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 »Dusk as seen from the Pollard Library
Tony Sampas took these photos of dusk on March 24, 2011 as seen through the window shades of the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell
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