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Writer and blog reader Steve O’Connor shares with us an essay for Veterans Day that was originally written for the UML Sunrise program: My daughter plays softball for the Lowell Mariners in the Oliveira League. Her home field is Ventura, tucked in the corner of Lowell at the back of…
Read More »A friend sent a link to “Suburban Pioneer: Musings on Life in the Merrimack Valley”, a blog that seems to have been around for a while but which had thus far escaped my attention. I’m not sure who writes it, but it seems to be centered in the Lawrence-area with…
Read More »Economist and writer Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of the well-known blog, Beat the Press, spoke at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center today as part of the Parker Lecture Series. Baker’s topic was “The Housing Crash Recession” and…
Read More »Tony Sampas turns his camera to some monuments to veterans in Lowell
Read More »Even though the Caller ID said “Unknown Caller” the other night, I still picked up the phone and was greeted by an automated survey, purportedly conducted by “the College Republicans.” It began simply: who would you vote for if the 2012 presidential election were held today? Mitt Romney Mike Huckabee…
Read More »Today’s installment of our World War One remembrance (thanks to the efforts of Eileen Loucraft) is a summary of a letter from Edward Nelson to his parents that he wrote while in France in December 1917 which is before the American forces were fully engaged in combat. Corporal Edward Nelson…
Read More »This past summer during a vacation in Chicago I visited the Museum of Science of Industry which was fascinating in its own right but it was also on my things-to-see list because it is the one surviving building from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition (shown above). That world’s fair brought…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle visited Portland, Maine this weekend and wrote a couple of blog posts that should be of interest to our readers. Nancye writes of her visit to the Portland Museum of Art to see a photography exhibit that reminded her of the work of Lowell photographer Joe Quinlan who…
Read More »While many supporters of Niki Tsongas were upset about the Lowell Sun’s endorsement of Jon Golnik, some community leaders – men and women who think more about the strategic needs of the region than they do politics – were appalled. For at least a century, Lowell has been the epicenter…
Read More »On November 6, 1860, voters across America went to the polls and elected Abraham Lincoln president which set the stage for the American Civil War. Here are the results of the election: Abraham Lincoln (Republican) received 180 electoral votes and 1,865,908 popular votes John C Breckinridge (Southern Democratic) received 72…
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