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“Almost at the End of the Road” by Tom Sexton At Ottawa, Ontario, we begin to follow the Ottawa River to Arnprior. It’s hard to believe, but the French Voyageurs followed the Ottawa to its source and then followed the Great Lakes west. Portage La Prairie in Manitoba was part…
Read More »First Congregational Church – Smith Baker Center. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Least we forget the 150th remembrance of the Civil War, the Lawrence Civil War Guard plays host to the 10th Annual Civil War Weekend with an encampment at Campagnone Common in the heart of Lawrence. As Mark Volger tells us in the Eagle Tribune today: Campagnone Common will become a…
Read More »This afternoon at 1 pm and tomorrow at 10 am, I will be leading tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. The tour is free, no need to register, just show up at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery and be prepared to walk for 90 minutes. The tours will be…
Read More »The Sun this week published an extensive look at the historic transformation in process at UMass Lowell. Anyone in the city can see the physical evidence of expansion. Not since the 1970s have we seen the amount of construction on campus—and now the campus boundaries extend much farther. With the…
Read More »Cotton Warehouse, French Street, Lowell – Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Another report from the highway by Tom Sexton.—PM “Hoito” by Tom Sexton One of my favorite places when we reach Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a restaurant called the Hoito, the word means “care” in Finnish. It was opened in 1918 on the bottom floor of the Finnish Labor Temple as…
Read More »Here’s the latest from the road from Tom Sexton, sent late Tuesday. He is in New England as you read this. I expect the next report will be from Eastport, Maine.– PM . “Spruce Lake” by Tom Sexton This might be the last entry since we’re almost to Vermont. It…
Read More »It’s time once again for our tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. They are free, require no registration and involve 90 minutes of walking and talking our way around the Cemetery. Because there is so much of interest in Lowell Cemetery, I’ve split it in two for our tours. In the…
Read More »Like Charles Dickens of ye olde England, Tom Sexton of old Lowell has a serial tale going here about his travels with his wife, Sharyn, and loyal pup in a valiant Passat making its way “from the west unto the east.”—PM “Little Passat on the Prairies” by Tom Sexton…
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