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Auxiliary Bishops-Elect Kennedy and Uglietto The United States Conference of Bishops announced today that Pope Benedict XVI “has named Father Arthur Kennedy, 68, and Father Peter J. Uglietto, 58, priests of the Archdiocese of Boston and both seminary rectors, as auxiliary bishops of Boston. The pope also accepted the resignation…
Read More »I wake up early every day, but today I got up even earlier to check on our young cat who came home from the vet’s late yesterday after being spayed. We were told to watch her closely for several days to be sure she is recovering as expected. I was…
Read More »As an outgrowth of my study of Abraham Lincoln for this spring’s “Lowell Reads Lincoln” event at the Pollard Memorial Library, I’ve sought out some additional Civil War-era books for summer reading. One is a yellowing paperback copy of “The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South” written in 1956…
Read More »I’m hearing more enthusiastic comments about the upcoming music shows at Boarding House Park than I have heard in recent years. The line-up that Peter Aucella and John Marciano have put together has really made people pay attention. Opening night with the Taj Mahal Trio was a smash by all acccounts, and…
Read More »The Irish Civil War began on June 28, 1922. It was fought between the provisional government of Southern Ireland (which became the Irish Free State on December 6, 1922) and the IRA members who were unwilling to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, which had formally established the Irish…
Read More »Back in 2007 – Ellen Murphy Meehan served as Campaign Chair for Niki Tsongas’ run in the special election to replace Marty Meehan. Marty served as Congressman from the Fifth Congressional District from 1993 to 2007. Tsongas loyalists and supporters just got the message by e-mail – Ellen Murphy Meehan is…
Read More »This report is from www.bostonmusicspotlight.com. Thanks for the reporting: “Furthur to jam on at Lowell Spinners’ ballpark “Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will bring their new musical project, Furthur, to Massachusetts for a special show this summer. The band will rock Lowell’s LeLacheur Park, home of…
Read More »In 1868, Lowell resident Charles Cowley wrote the “Illustrated History of Lowell”, a book filled with fascinating facts about our city. Here’s my third weekly compilation of “tweeting” from Cowley’s book: June 19 – In 1686 Col Tyng, Maj Henchman et al purchased from Wannalancet all land in region, leaving…
Read More »Today’s Globe publishes a major investigative report re-examining the evidence in a 1982 Lowell fire on Decatur Street that killed 8 people. Immediately after the fire was extinguished on March 5, 1982, investigators suspected arson and the trail soon led to 24-year old Victor Rosario who signed a statement incriminating…
Read More »When people who lived and worked in Lowell were trying to figure out how to revive the city in the 1960s and ’70s, one piece of wisdom that emerged during the planning was that it makes sense for Lowell as a community to invest in its assets that can’t be…
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