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Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge (1872-75) James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1905) was nine years old when his family left Lowell and traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father helped the Czar build a railroad. In Lowell, his father, George Washington Whistler, and mother, Anna Matilda McNeill, lived at…
Read More »State Representative Tom Golden has been out front and leading on public policy responses to the widespread opiate abuse that is claiming too many lives. In 2013, his advocacy led to the re-opening of Tewksbury Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Detoxification Center and working with the Greater Lowell Health Alliance he…
Read More »Louise Griffin of Lowell is speaking out about the addiction crisis that is destroying so many lives around us. Her son died recently, after struggling for several years with addiction that began with taking pain-killing pills in high school after a hockey injury. Read about Zachary and Louise and two…
Read More »Don’t forget the upcoming recognition of Peter Aucella’s contributions to the city when the Kiwanis Club of Greater Lowell will present him with the Thomas G. Kelakos Community Spirit Award at 6.30 pm on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at The Mill House at Lenzi’s, 810 Merrrimack Ave., in Dracut. Tickets…
Read More »Bob Weible was the staff historian during the formative years of Lowell National Historical Park. Today, he is State Historian of New York and Chief Curator of the New York State Museum. During his Lowell years he was also unofficial Commissioner of a men’s-and-women’s softball league composed of teams from…
Read More »In response to Marjorie’s grim assessment of the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I went to the rh.com archives for this post I wrote in 2010 titled “Who Gets Hurt?” There’s no way to add up all the pain out there—and it rolls on day to day in…
Read More »Mr. Nason Skating on the Merrimack . In March of the year we were in kindergarten, Mr. Nason told us how on one cold night he skated from Lowell to beyond Manchester where we knew the river vanished with a sigh and the moon’s breath was frozen to the ground,…
Read More »Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice…
Read More »“One fine morning, not long ago, I strolled down the Merrimac, on the Tewksbury shore. I know of no walk in the vicinity of Lowell so inviting as that along the margin of the river for nearly a mile from the village of Belvidere. The path winds, green and flower-skirted,…
Read More »The Winter 1996 issue of BOMB includes an interview of Patti Smith by musician Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. She performed at the Smith Baker Center in Lowell on October 6, 1995, for the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival. The band stayed overnight at the Stonehedge Inn in Tyngsboro. Following…
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