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‘A. G. Pollard’s’ by Richard Marion
“A. G. Pollard’s” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 Click on the image to enlarge. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Lowell’s Past: Before University Crossing There Were Hospitals
With the demolition of the former St. Joseph’s Hospital on Pawtucket Street nearly completed as part of the UMass Lowell creation of University Crossing, it seemed appropriate to offer some information about the hospital and its origins. Originally it was known as the Lowell Corporation Hospital – established on November 1, 1839 –…
Read More »What the Plates Say
In 1988, the National Park Service and Center for Archaeological Studies at Boston University were asked by the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission to investigate the grounds of the former Boott Mills boarding houses off French Street (one remains today, known as the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center), and the Kirk…
Read More »‘Articles Made in Lowell’ (Lowell Board of Trade,1911-12)
From a list included in “The Lowell Board of Trade Year Book, 1911-12,” whose president was Harvey B. Greene. Articles Made in Lowell . “Acids, Advertising Novelties, Ammunition Hoists, Ale, Army Duck, Art Needle Work, Asbestos Machinery, Automatic Time Tables, Automobile Accessories, Automobile Parts, Awnings and Tents, Axminster Carpets, Badges,…
Read More »Irish Tradition: Little Christmas and Women’s Christmas Celebrated on the Epiphany
Image: rjnagle via Flickr / The Journal.ie Little Christmas (Irish: Nollaig Bheag) is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6 – more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Feast of the Epiphany. It is so called because under the older Julian calendar, Christmas Day…
Read More »Local History: The Views of Rev. Wilson Waters (1910)
Rev. Wilson Waters. c. 1891 (Photo by Odin Fitz, courtesy of The Artemas Ward House and Its Collections, Harvard College Library) On October 12, 1910, the Rev. Wilson Waters, B.D., read an essay about writing history at a meeting of the Lowell Historical Society. Wilson is the author of A…
Read More »Lowell Poets in Gloucester on Saturday, Feb. 9
An Incident Today Sparked a Trip Down Our Political Memory Lane
Earlier today on Facebook I linked to a story about the conservative group “Club for Growth” sending out a “NO Vote Alert” urging all Republican members of the U.S. House to vote “NO” on the bill to expand the National Flood Insurance Program’s borrowing authority by $9.7 billion. This is…
Read More »’23 October’ by Paul Hudon
The following poem is from Paul Hudon’s big poem-a-day book written in 2005-2006, “All in Good Time” (Loom Press, 2011). At various times, Paul has been a professor of history at Merrimack College, curator of pre-industrial artifacts at the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (now the American Textile History Museum in Lowell),…
Read More »Bucky Lew and the Lews of Lowell
Mass Moments reminds us that on this day January 4, 1884, Harry Haskell Lew – also known as Bucky Lew – was born in Lowell in 1884 to an African-American family with a long and illustrious history in Massachusetts. His great-great-grandfather, Barzillai Lew – a free black man who purchased the…
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