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The Lowell Historical Society’s “Lowell and the Civil War” presentation with Dick Howe as the guest speaker is tomorrow morning at 11:30am at the Lowell National Historical Park’s Visitors’ Center at 246 Market Street. Repost: Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr.,…
Read More »It’s Friday night and I have a few minutes to catch up on the news. Here are some things that caught my eye: A year or so ago the New York Times launched a hyperlocal blog covering the Fort Green neighborhood in Brooklyn. I glance at it occasionally to see…
Read More »Today’s Globe had a very un-Globe-like headline (“Whites still abandoning cities in Mass) above a story on the just-released data from the 2010 census. The story reports that 43 of 45 large communities “saw declines in white population” and that fourteen of them — including Lowell — dropped by double…
Read More »There’s a buzz around town, in the Hall, in the diners and on the street – local and otherwise – about a sequel to “The Fighter.” Most importantly both Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell are in on it! Wahlberg currently has a few other projects going – the film…
Read More »A variety of eye maladies has kept me visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary regularly for the past dozen years. I’ve always been pleased and thankful for the treatment I’ve received there, so much so that this year I began making a modest donation to the hospital’s annual fund.…
Read More »We’re going down a bad road when politicians like the Maine governor start removing images of labor history like the mural in the Maine state Department of Labor office in Augusta that he ordered to be removed. Read the article from the Lewiston, Me., newspaper, the Sun Journal here. The Governor’s office spokesman said unnamed…
Read More »To support communal feelings, a nation must seek to preserve certain cherished institutions as well as engage in creative innovation; it must value collective responsibility as well as individual incentive; it must espouse goals over and above those of economic self-aggrandizement. If a commitment to the ends of economic individualism…
Read More »F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture & Dinner Discussion, April 7, 5.30 pm, reception; 6.30 pm, dinner & lecture. Join keynote speaker Roger Cressey, a graduate of UMass Lowell, whose vast knowledge of security and counterterrorism has led him from the halls of UMass Lowell to the White House, for a cocktail…
Read More »Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore, an 1861 engraving of the Baltimore riot. Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr., the Middlesex North Register of Deeds and a former President of the Lowell Historical Society, will present a two…
Read More »The City of Lowell will celebrate its 175th anniversary as a city chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a gala event at City Hall and environs on Monday April 11, 2011 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The evening will feature honored speakers, musical performances and City Hall tours. More of this…
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