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This month of March has been a good one for the memory of iconic Lowell writer Jack Kerouac. Readings, musical tributes, an exhibit and walking the loop helped commemorate the 91st birthday of Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac- the American novelist and poet – born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. A long…
Read More »Recently I was a guest on “Threads“, the new local TV show produced at LTC by Jack Mitchell and Lynne Lupien. I was invited on to talk about my new book, Legendary Locals of Lowell. Here’s the segment which features an interview of me by Corey Sciuto: [youtube]7tjeiG3gTRc[/youtube]
Read More »Thanks to the 85 people who packed the community room at the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell last evening to hear Chaim Rosenberg and me talk about our new book, Legendary Locals of Lowell. After 45 minutes of discussion, we signed books for many in the crowd. We were fortunate…
Read More »Photo and text by Tony Sampas. The Red Bridge is located near Pevey and Kyan Streets, is forty feet in height and spans 160 feet over the Pawtucket Canal. Its current owner is the Boston and Maine Railroad. From the Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory, Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott: “The…
Read More »This coming Wednesday, March 21, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., I will be at the J.V. Fletcher Library in Westford (50 Main Street) to give a talk on the city of Lowell and the coming of the Civil War. This is a presentation I gave last year in Lowell and in…
Read More »Thursday March 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM Federal Building – Middlesex Community College, 50 Kearney Square, Lowell The main speaker at this year’s forum on the history of the Irish in the Acre will be Brian Mitchell, the author of “The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–1861” and other…
Read More »Returning home yesterday I found Ivy guarding the eight boxes of books that had been delivered by Fedex earlier in the day. Legendary Locals of Lowell has arrived! The first formal event will be next Monday, March 18, at 7pm at the Pollard Memorial Library. A representative of Arcadia Publishing…
Read More »Reminders are all around us! It’s that time… to “spring forward.” The annual leap to Daylight Saving Time happens officially at 2am tomorrow – Sunday March 10, 2013. What does it mean? Who instigated this whole time change thing? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Do we…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 7, 1876, Scotland-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for a device that could transmit human speech over a wire – the telephone. Bell’s patents and the success of the Bell Telephone Company, which he established in 1877, made the young…
Read More »The aftermath of the Tewksbury Cartidge Company Explosion, 1903 The Tewksbury Historical Society is holding its annual New Members Meeting today – Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 1:00pm at the Tewksbury Library at 300 Chandler Street. The event is open to the general public and will feature Kim Zunino as…
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