History

Globe Touts Lowell’s “Banjo and Fiddle” Contest on September 11th

We are reminded by an article in today’s Globe here, that on this Saturday September 11th the 31st Annual Banjo and Fiddle Contest holds sway at Lowell’s premier outdoor concert venue – Boardinghouse Park in the historic downtown.  Imagine it has been 31 years since Park Ranger and musician Alex Demas put…

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Greater Lowell Area Dems to Meet on Saturday September 11, 2010 ~ Niki Tsongas Special Guest

The regular breakfast meeting of  Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held this Saturday morning  September 11, 2010 at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. This is the first GLAD meeting since the summer break! The upcoming primary and impending November elections are at…

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Bread and Roses Festival

To commemorate Labor Day this year I decided to visit the 26th annual Bread & Roses Festival in Lawrence, an event that celebrates the gains made by workers as a result of their nationally significant strike in the city back in 1912. Even before I left Lowell, however, I was…

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“The mills weren’t made of marble”

Here is the lead editorial from the September 7, 1992 edition of the New York Times – A Labor Day piece about the recently opened Boott Cotton Mill Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts: Youngsters who are made to troop through America’s historic landmarks might reasonably conclude that in the past, rich…

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A Modest Proposal: Voluntary Fed Taxes in 2011 to Break the Back of the Great Recession

The following might sound like it came out of the movie “Dave,” in which a presidential look-alike who runs a temp agency (Kevin Kline) winds up being secretly installed as president after the real prez has a stroke. At first manipulated by an evil chief of staff (Frank Langella), “Dave”…

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