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JFK Signs The Cape Cod National Seahore Bill
President John F. Kennedy of the Cape Cod National Seashore Bill on August 7,1961, with Congressmen and other officials watching. NPS/Cape Cod National Seashore
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Cape Cod National Seashore Bill Signed by JFK – August 7, 1961
Last week we posted a connection here to an interview with George Price – current Superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park and formerly a Deputy Superintendent in Lowell. Today MassMoments reminds us that it was on this day fifty years ago – August 7, 1961 that President John…
Read More »‘Bridge at Boott’ by Richard Marion
The Great American Hall of Wonders
At the end of last week I had to make a quick drive down and back to Washington. The morning I left, I noticed a review of an exhibit that recently opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum called “The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science and Invention in…
Read More »More Folk Festival Coverage
Folklorist Maggie Holtzberg of Lowell National Historical Park and the Massachusetts Cultural Council posted many photographs with commentary from the recent Lowell Folk Festival on her blog Keepers of Tradition, which you can find on the rh.com blogroll to the right on the home page. Here’s the connection.
Read More »Lowell Soldiers on the Civil War Lists
A Currier & Ives drawing of the Battle of Cedar Mountain on Aug. 9, 1862. Fourteen Lowell soldiers died (taken from Lowell Sun website) In today’s Lowell Sun, longtime staff writer and citizen historian Dave Peaver continues his coverage of Lowell and the Civil War. His focus today is on…
Read More »31 US Troops, 7 Afghans Killed as Helicopter Goes Down
Read the report from AOL/Huffington Post.
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Centennial of the “Bread and Roses” Strike of 1912
August 5, 2011
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Ralph Fasanella’s painting “Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike” The history of the Merrimack Valley is twined throughout with many significant issues and events – many related to the causes of the Labor Movement in America. I caught this article the other day in the Eagle Tribune that gives…
Read More »Greater Merrimack Valley Bits & Pieces
This week’s New Yorker magazine includes a “Talk of the Town” piece by Elizabeth Kolbert about a recent field trip to Mt. Greylock in western Mass. that recreates the July 1844 climb of Henry David Thoreau, described in “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.” Today’s NYTimes has a brief…
Read More »Price Leads “Model” Cape Cod National Seashore Park into the 21st Century
As the recent Lowell Folk Festival reminded us, the current Superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore Park was the Deputy Superintendet here in Lowell for many years. Annually he still leads the opening folk festival parade dancing with his iconic red, white and blue umbrella and his unique festival moves.…
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