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Harry Allen Field – at St. Louis Field – Joseph H. “Harry” Allen was known as the “King of Softball” in Lowell and had 1500 wins as a pitcher over a 20-year career. His teams won state championships in 1953 and 1956. He pitched the first night softball game at…
Read More »Armand W. Alix Square – Adams/Market/Cabot/Salem streets – Armand V. Alix died in Lowell on November 8, 1921, at age 23 as the result of wounds suffered in 1918 during the Argonne Offensive in France while he served with Battery F, 102nd Field Artillery Regiment. He was survived by his…
Read More »Paris 2024 – Breaking ahead! By Louise Peloquin Featuring urban-pop pirouettes, aerial arabesques, moondance balancés and athletic ronds de jambe, all punctuated by acrobatic grands jetés, street-corner ballet is making its debut in the Paris Games. Breakdancing, also known as B-boying, B-girling or breaking, was created in the ’70’s in the Bronx by young…
Read More »August 4, 2024 In the closing days of its just finished 2023-24 session, the Massachusetts State Legislature passed House Bill 4700, An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell. The parcels to be conveyed are the former…
Read More »Joseph Albert Square – Worthen and Moody streets – Joseph E. Albert was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 1, 1945, at age 33 while serving with the United States Marine Corps. Born in 1912, Albert attended St. Joseph’s School and worked at the Lowell Ordnance plant prior…
Read More »For several years I’ve been compiling information about all the monuments and memorials in Lowell. There are nearly 700 on my list thus far. Besides identifying them all, I am researching the person, group, or event memorialized. Today I begin posting these biographical sketches here, one-by-one, with a couple each…
Read More »Paris 2024 – How they trained; where they’ll rest By Louise Peloquin How do athletes rev up their bodies to reach Olympic form? Let’s take a peek across the pond to the Emerald Isle. To prepare for specific conditions, some Irish athletes turned to what is now called “sport tech”…
Read More »The big news from Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was the selection of Corey Belanger to serve the unexpired term of District 3 (Belvidere) Councilor John Leahy who resigned after taking a job with the Lowell School Department last week. This outcome surprised me, not because Belanger was selected but…
Read More »The following is a republication of a post by Paul Marion that first appeared here on July 28, 2013. It is being reposted in advance of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival which begins Friday, July 26, 2024, and runs through Sunday, July 28, 2024. Lowell Folk Festival Rates Five Starts…
Read More »Paris 2024 – Maximum security By Louise Peloquin Security agents from all over the world are joining the 35,000 French police officers and 18, 000 military to ensure maximum security during the Paris Games expected to welcome more than 15 million visitors. The French Ministry of the Interior is supervising approximately 1,800 agents…
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