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From the Saint Laurence to the Merrimack and back By Louise Peloquin For several weeks, Dick Howe has been posting photos of Lowell monuments testifying to the city’s rich and varied past. Although the following monument is located 384 miles to the north, it commemorates the French-Canadian history which links…
Read More »Roger Baribeault Square – Fisher Street and Cumberland Road – Born in Lowell in 1923, Roger Baribeault served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was awarded a bronze star for heroism. His was a lifelong parishioner of St. Louis de France Church in Centralville and member of…
Read More »Alfred J. Baraby Jr. Square – Andover Street and Wilder Road – Alfred J. Baraby Jr. was born in Nashua in 1919. He eventually moved to Lowell and was a longtime resident of Belvidere. He served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he worked…
Read More »There was no Lowell City Council meeting this past week, so I’ll pick up where I left off in my last newsletter and share some more thoughts on elections and mail-in voting. In the aftermath of the September 3, 2024, primary election, people asked me, “Were you surprised by the…
Read More »Living Madly: Harvest Home By Emilie-Noelle Provost *This essay is dedicated to my sister Morgan who loves fairs so much she got married on the Ferris wheel at the Franklin Country Fair in Greenfield. **** When I was very young, my family used to go to the Marshfield Fair every…
Read More »Portraits Along the Way: 1976-2024 by Paul Marion. Reviewed by Richard Howe For more than a dozen years I’ve been leading tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. If it’s not raining, we average 80 to 100 people on each tour with many return visitors. Although Lowell Cemetery is a beautiful place,…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met last Tuesday. The end of the agenda showed an executive session “to consider and discuss ongoing negotiations relative to Lupoli Companies LLC, public discussion of which could have a detrimental effect on the city’s position.” This would be the second executive session within a month…
Read More »On the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend, we found ourselves in a veterinary emergency room with Zoe, our 3-year-old labradoodle. All is well but the circumstances of our visit are worth sharing, so consider this a public service announcement. Here’s what happened: Sunday, September 1, 2024, was a beautiful…
Read More »Preparing for a Pandemic By Richard Howe (on September 3, 2009) For many years at the registry of deeds I wrote daily blog entries on real estate matters. But doing that daily is a difficult chore so often I would write about other things, especially world events that somehow affected…
Read More »Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor wrote the following essay in 2008 on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It seems appropriate to post it here once again: On September 11, 2001, I was teaching a class at Greater Lowell Tech as a few hundred miles south of us, men guided…
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