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Photos by Tony Sampas.
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Tewksbury Public Library Hosts UML Professor Forrant in “100 Author” Series ~ September 30, 2013
September 25, 2013
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Marie
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Authors Professor Bob Forrant of UMass Lowell and Susan Grabski of the Lawrence History Center) will discuss their book – “Lawrence and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike” on Monday morning, September 30, 2013 from10:30am – 12:00pm at the Tewksbury Public Library. There will be a book selling and signing afterwards for…
Read More »National Postal Museum & the Medal of Honor
This past weekend I traveled to Washington with family members from near and far to attend a ceremony at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum that involved stamp collecting and the Medal of Honor. My mother’s cousin, Lowell-native David H. McNerney, was awarded the Medal of Honor on September 19, 1968…
Read More »UMass Lowell Teach-In ~ The Syrian Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here?
UMass Lowell’s Middle East Center for Peace, Development and Culture is sponsoring a Teach-In on the “Crisis in Syria” and the public is invited. SYRIAN CRISIS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Teach-In at UMass Lowell Tuesday, October 1 2:00 – 3:15pm O’Leary Library 222 Students, Faculty, Staff and Community Welcome …
Read More »The ‘Time’
September 20, 2013
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PaulM
Posted in Current Events, History, Lowell, Election 2013
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In this space I wrote about a political house party the other day. Another building block of the local campaign is “the time,” a term with aromatic political roots that is not used as much in Lowell these days, but is familiar to politicos in places like South Boston and…
Read More »UML freshmen ask questions about Lowell
Earlier this week I led 19 UMass Lowell students on a walking tour of downtown Lowell. The students comprised a section of the Honors Seminar which is required for all freshmen in the honors program. The focus of the seminar is Lowell, which is a great way to introduce the…
Read More »“Eulogy for Joseph P. Donahue Jr” by Matt Donahue
Matt Donahue delivered the eulogy at his dad’s funeral yesterday. Several who attended the service mentioned to me how much they enjoyed and appreciated his remarks, so I asked Matt to share them and he generously did so: A Eulogy for Joseph P. Donahue Jr. September 18, 2013 What if…
Read More »Joseph P. Donahue, Esq. May 20, 1925 – September 14, 2013
Photo by Tony Sampas. Obituary from O’Donnell Funeral Home.
Read More »The House Party
In our democracy one of the revered institutions is the New England town meeting, the equivalent of a political common where voters gather to make decisions together under the one person-one vote rule. In the state houses, city and town halls, and our national congress representatives who are elected by…
Read More »2011 detailed results: Jim Milinazzo
This is the ninth in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is twelfth place finisher Jim Milinazzo. The information presented below is organized…
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