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Lowell Abstraction
Some abstract art from Tony Sampas. This photo shows the spire of the First Congregational Church/Smith Baker Center, as seen through the granite columns of the Pollard Memorial Library.
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“A Yankee Curse” by Steve O’Connor
With warm weather forecast for the next few days and spring training underway in Florida, Steve O’Connor shares a baseball story: I have a cousin several years my junior named Michael Stirk who moved to Chicago after college. I rarely see him, since Chicago is way past Worcester, and since…
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Tony Sampas shares these street scenes of Lowell
Read More »The Life & Times of Francis Cabot Lowell
Last night I traveled to the Needham Public Library to hear Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg talk about his new book, “The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817.” Lowell is the man for whom our city is named, although he died (at age 42) before the city was even founded.…
Read More »Cobblestone Cup: a north of Boston Beanpot?
Monday night I watched the very exciting 2011 Beanpot final on TV. Boston College defeated Northeastern in overtime by a score of 7-6. While the consolation game earlier that evening wasn’t televised, someone who was there told me that was a fantastic game as well, with Harvard beating Boston University…
Read More »Planning & Development Forum Tomorrow Night
Move Lowell Forward, a city-based political action committee, hosts a planning and development forum tomorrow night (Thursday, February 17, 2011) at 7 pm at the Market Mill/Lowell Art and Design Center at 256 Market Street (just across the Market Mills Courtyard from the National Park Visitor Center). The guest speaker…
Read More »“The Trials of Being a Native American in Northern Massachusetts” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters sent this post as a follow-up to his earlier essay on the “Native American History of Lowell.” As a child, television taught me that the Native American, the “Indian,” was savage and without Christian scruples. We have since learned that those with the Christian scruples were…
Read More »February 2010 – Fire on Bridge Street
“Lowell Firefighting” on Facebook reminds us that it was this week one year ago that one of two massive winter fires occurred on Bridge Street in Lowell, and points us to some incredible photos that accompany this blog post by an eyewitness to the fire.
Read More »The “Greatest Generation” loses two
Friday afternoon I traveled to McKenna-Ouellette Funeral Home on Hildreth Street to attend the wakes of Rudolphe “Red” Ouellette and Alfred “Nick” Favreau, two life-long residents of Lowell who were friends throughout their 88 years of life, who died within hours of each other on the same day, and who…
Read More »“Bend the Fed” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column There is an intriguing sub-plot to the Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives. Self-proclaimed Libertarian, Representative Ron Paul of Texas,…
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