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If you go to www.lowelldeeds.com, the website of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, it’s fairly easy to calculate how many documents of a particular type of been recorded during a period of time. With the direction of our real estate market so closely linked to the rise and fall…
Read More »Here are the names of American service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan this week, as reported by the New York Times: Iraq CARILLO, John Jr., 20, Specialist, Army; Stockton, Calif.; Third Infantry Division. NOONAN, Gebrah P., 26, Pfc., Army; Watertown, Conn.; Third Infantry Division. WHISENANT, Marc C., 23,…
Read More »This past Thursday night I attended one of the opening events of the Kerouac Literary Festival at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center (formerly known as the Doubletree Hotel). Novelist Russell Banks, the author of a dozen major books and a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction,…
Read More »In honor of the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, Tony Sampas share some photos central to Kerouac’s Lowell. The crucifix shown above is atop the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the Franco American School on Pawtucket Street. The below photo of a sculpture with the crucifix tucked into a…
Read More »Late yesterday afternoon I traveled to Middlesex Community College for a presentation on a study on “voter participation demographics in Lowell, Massachusetts” conducted by Professor Marcos Luna and his graduate students in the Department of Geography at Salem State University (the full study is available HERE). Luna was attracted to…
Read More »Charlie Baker has been catching some heat lately for seeming “too angry” – while I’m certainly no fan of Baker’s, expressions of anger by a candidate running for governor don’t bother me. But the Republican nominee for governor of New York, Carl Paladino, goes off the charts. Tea Party favorite…
Read More »Tony Sampas wraps up his photo essay on the smokestacks of Lowell with two more views.
Read More »Keep your smart phones out of sight starting today; the Commonwealth’s new ban on using electronic devices to send or receive messages while behind the wheel goes into effect today. I suspect that the police will be especially vigilant and aggressive in enforcing the law which is a “primary offense”…
Read More »Ken Burns’ latest film, “The Tenth Inning”, just got over on Channel 2. The four-hour program, shown over the past two nights, was an extension of “Baseball” the 1994 Burns program that covered baseball from the beginning. The highlight of tonight’s show, of course, was the Red Sox historic victory…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares photos of a smokestack in the Acre (above) and one repurposed as a cell phone antenna (below)
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