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Lowell is best known for its role in the Industrial Revolution, but the first English settlers arrived at the confluence of the Merrimack and the Concord Rivers in the mid-1600s. They found the area fully inhabited by indigenous people who had lived here for centuries. In the following essay, Jim…
Read More »Western Avenue Studios, shown in the background above, will be open today from noon to 5 pm for the regular first Saturday of the month, Open Studios. Pay a visit and browse through all of the artists’ work spaces and perhaps even buy something to brighten up your home or…
Read More »Plaque erected in Quebec City marking the spot of American General Richard Montgomery’s death. “Here stood the Undaunted Fifty safeguarding Canada, defeating Montgomery at the Pres de Ville Barricade on the last day of 1775, Guy Carleton commanding at Quebec.” Two hundred and thirty-five years ago tonight, American soldiers attacked…
Read More »My “celebrations” of New Year’s Eve have evolved through the years. Growing up, I always enjoyed watching the big college football bowl game that was on that night – I think it was the Orange Bowl from Miami – but that was back in the day when there were only…
Read More »On her “Lowell Doughboys” blog, Eileen Loucraft recently wrote about US Army Private James F. Costello who was killed in action in France during October 1918 during the First World War. Costello is honored by by a square in the Collinsville section of Dracut and at the junction of Lakeview…
Read More »Today’s Globe identifies they young actor who played Dick Ecklund Jr in “The Fighter” as Jackson Nicholl of nearby Seabrook, New Hampshire.
Read More »I’ve tried to create a Google Maps mashup showing the various locations in Lowell where “The Fighter” was filmed. Just click on the blue markers to read a description of that location and use the zoom and and out tools to see the entire map. Many of the spots are…
Read More »A story in today’s Globe follows a couple of Boston code enforcement police around as they issue citations to folks who shovel/plow/blow snow into the already plowed street. The story mentions that unnamed “legal experts” say the city is liable for injuries that occur on sidewalks so it’s in the…
Read More »Earlier today the Librarian of Congress announced the 2010 additions to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Each year since 1989, twenty-five American films ranging from sixty-second clips to epic Hollywood productions have been inducted into the National Film Registry. This project caught my interest several years…
Read More »Lowell resident, historian, and sometimes contributor to this site Jim Peters, sent along this essay urging readers to get behind the effort to save the Textile Avenue Bridge (formerly known as the Moody Street Bridge and now known as the University Ave Bridge) from destruction: I have been spending a…
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