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The aftermath of the South Lowell (then Tewksbury) Cartidge Company Explosion, 1903. The Lowell Historical Society will hold its annual meeting tonight in the ground level Community Room of the Pollard Memorial Library. The meeting itself begins at 6:30pm with a brief business meeting and election of officers and directors.…
Read More »Ray Manzarek, one of the giants of 1960s rock and roll, died yesterday at the age of 74. The co-founder of The Doors performed in Lowell once with The Doors, at the Commodore Ballroom in 1967, and twice with poet Michael McClure at the Smith Baker Center for the annual…
Read More »Acclaimed author Paul Theroux visited Lowell a few months ago on assignment from Barron’s online journal. The Medford native rode the train to Lowell, retracing his mother’s route to college in the late 1920s. She earned a teaching degree from Lowell Normal School. Theroux spent a day in Lowell, hosted…
Read More »Merrimack . We live thirty miles inland along the old road to the coast, a road laid down on an early wagon track, which followed the Indian trace—a long day on sure feet giving way to oxcarts that took half the week to return from the sea with their burdens…
Read More »“South Campus Sailing” by Richard Marion, Copyright (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net The conditions were much better this past weekend for the big rowing competition on the Merrimack. Congratulations for a successful event to the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau (including Tom Golden and Deb Belanger),…
Read More »Read Dominique Browning’s NYTimes review of Elinor Lipman’s two new books: a novel, “The View FromPenthouse B,” and a collection of essays,”I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays. She is a graduate of Lowell High School and a past recipient of the LHS Distinguished Alumni Award. There is a rumor…
Read More »The website brainpickings.org recently posted on Facebook this list made by Kerouac in the 1950s. The document is titled “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose.” The editor prefaced the list, saying, “With items like ‘No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge’ and ‘Accept loss…
Read More »Another crosspost from Jen Myers’ “Room 50” blog~ please follow the link for more photos and information… Buried Treasure — A Tour of Lowell Cemetery by juicegirl50 She was married and bored. He was interesting. She was enchanted. He was smitten. It was July 1848 and famed poet Edgar Allan Poe was staying…
Read More »This is a cross post photo/blog from “Room 50” about last night’s Excellence Awards for Preservation Cultural Heritage. The presentation was offered by James Ostis of the Lowell Heritage Partnership. https://room50.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/preserving-excellence/ Note: Our fellow blogger Dick Howe was one of the honorees. Fellow blogger Paul Marion – President of the Lowell Heritage…
Read More »Last night’s reception at the Lowell National Park kicked off Doors Open Lowell weekend. This is a great opportunity to visit some of our city’s most unique buildings and tour them in a “behind the scenes” way that is unavailable at most times. Here’s the schedule: Friday, May 17, 2013…
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