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Bring your Lowell photographs to Tsongas Industrial History center, located at the Boot Mills, 115 John St. in Lowell this Saturday, March 24, from 10am-3pm for a community history project. Your photos will be scanned and immediately handed back to you and you might be asked to go on camera…
Read More »While tomorrow officially is the first day of Spring, this year you have to give it to yesterday on points. After baking for two hours in the sun at mid-afternoon, my car registered 89 degrees on the temperature control inside. Outside, the heat was closer to 80 degrees, enough for…
Read More »Congratulations to Greg Page on his selection as the new Secretary to Lowell Mayor Patrick Murphy. I first met Greg back when he was a Navy Intelligence Lieutenant stationed at the submarine base in Groton, Connecticut after serving a tour with Special Operations troops in Iraq. Of all the places…
Read More »The Sun’s Jennifer Myers yesterday wrote about our allied blogger Jack Neary and his crew who are out to start a musical theater organization for Greater Lowell. Jack is using the increasingly popular online fundraising tool “Kickstarter” to raise $7600 (a hundred dollars for each of the 76 trombones in the “Music Man” production…
Read More »Mort de César, Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798 Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry “Caesar!” Speak, Caesar is turn’d to hear. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: A soothsayer bids you…
Read More »Back by popular demand, two clips of the late Ken Harkins at the podium for the 1989 St Patrick’s Day breakfast in Lowell. Ken is truly missed, especially when this breakfast rolls around each year: [youtube]W2XTf4IIG8Q[/youtube] [youtube]9Y1tCu4lgWA[/youtube]
Read More »One of the regular stops on my Lowell Cemetery tour is the grave of Frederick Ayer. Mr. Ayer and his brother, James C. Ayer, attained enormous wealth and success through the sale of patent medicine. Frederick branched out into other areas, becoming the primary owner of the American Woolen Company…
Read More »Lawrence undoubtedly is the name that comes to mind whenever the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 is discussed, but there was also an associated strike in Lowell that year, known to historians as The Lowell Textile Strike of 1912. On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 6 pm at the…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that today’s state of Maine began as a separate colony in the 1620s but from the 1650s until 1820, it was part of Massachusetts. The selling of public land in Maine for debt relief in the 1790s saw the landscape and demographics change. As thousands of families from…
Read More »Actor and activist Don Cheadle with John Prendergast From UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office: “Today, human rights activist John Prendergast is testifying with actor George Clooney before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on conditions in Sudan and South Sudan. In two weeks, he will be at UMass Lowell…
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