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This coming Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 11:30 am at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street, I’ll be presenting a lecture on Lowell and the start of the American Civil War. The program is free and open to the public. It will cover events leading up to…
Read More »One hundred years ago today one of the deadliest fires in American history occurred at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. The company occupied the upper floors of the Asch Building (shown below) which is just east of Washington Square Park and Greenwich Village. Despite the heavy loss…
Read More »There’s a buzz around town, in the Hall, in the diners and on the street – local and otherwise – about a sequel to “The Fighter.” Most importantly both Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell are in on it! Wahlberg currently has a few other projects going – the film…
Read More »Don’t miss Boston Globe Politics Editor Glen Johnson’ s piece on the “Political Intelligence” page today. The Lowell references and the flurry of local town and city elections should pique our Merrimack Valley interest. Glen Johnson spent some years toiling at the Lowell SUN – so he knows only too well of which…
Read More »The Sun today has details on the funeral arrangements and services for Sandy Walter, past Superintendent of Lowell National Historical Park. Here is the link. Note that donations can be made in her name to Gossnell Memorial Hospice in Maine or to the new Sandy Walter Memorial Folk Festival Fund…
Read More »We’re going down a bad road when politicians like the Maine governor start removing images of labor history like the mural in the Maine state Department of Labor office in Augusta that he ordered to be removed. Read the article from the Lewiston, Me., newspaper, the Sun Journal here. The Governor’s office spokesman said unnamed…
Read More »F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture & Dinner Discussion, April 7, 5.30 pm, reception; 6.30 pm, dinner & lecture. Join keynote speaker Roger Cressey, a graduate of UMass Lowell, whose vast knowledge of security and counterterrorism has led him from the halls of UMass Lowell to the White House, for a cocktail…
Read More »The following message was sent to colleagues in the National Park Service by Michael Reynolds, Deputy Regional Director, National Park Service-Northeast Region in Philadelphia, Penn. As soon as more details about funeral arrangements are announced, we will share them on this blog. Sandy’s many friends in Lowell are saddened by her…
Read More »Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore, an 1861 engraving of the Baltimore riot. Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr., the Middlesex North Register of Deeds and a former President of the Lowell Historical Society, will present a two…
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