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In 1868, Lowell resident Charles Cowley wrote the “Illustrated History of Lowell”, a book filled with fascinating facts about our city. Here’s my fourth weekly compilation of “tweeting” from Cowley’s book: June 29 – On October 29, 1727 an earthquake caused walls and chimneys to fall throughout the Merrimack Valley…
Read More »The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…
Read More »Yesterday’s national unemployment figures provide further evidence that our nation’s economic “recovery” may be sputtering. The performance of the local real estate market over the first half of 2010 tends to confirm that conclusion. For the ten communities in the Middlesex North Registry District (Lowell and nine surrounding towns), the…
Read More »For the next few weeks there will be a major disruption of traffic in the Highlands as Stevens Street from the intersection with Parker (at St Margarets School) to the intersection with Chelmsford Street (at Cross Point) will be closed to traffic from 7 am to 5 pm. The blockage…
Read More »“Flashback Friday” is a new feature I’m going to try. Each Friday, I hope to post a picture, video or article from Lowell’s political past. There won’t be any chronological connection between the item posted and the date of posting – it will be completely random. Like so much else…
Read More »The Massachusetts State Senate voted 25-15 for a plan that would establish three resort-style casinos in the Commonwealth. They’d be located in Boston, the western part of the state and in the southeastern part of the state. It’s estimated that the three casinos would create 15,000 new jobs and produce…
Read More »Here’s the ad Tim Cahill just launched in an effort to revive his sagging gubernatorial campaign: [youtube]7rdjw6oDYFI[/youtube]
Read More »This year’s Independence Day Parade in Chelmsford will begin at 10 am this coming Monday, July 5, from the McCarthy Junior High School and will proceed down Route 4 to the town center. An estimated 15,000 spectators will watch the parade; consider becoming one of them. Here are some scenes…
Read More »At a city parking garage I recently received a handful of golden colored $1 coins as change from the payment kiosk and was amazed to discover they all bore the image of —- Franklin Pierce. The logic was inescapable: an obscure president on an obscure coin. Later I mentioned it…
Read More »[youtube]hHUiCYAE2DY[/youtube] For those of us old enough to have grown up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle constantly clash with (and always prevail over) Russian spies Boris and Natasha (shown above), news that a Russian spy ring was rolled up comes as no surprise. While the accents and trench coats remain as…
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