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Web photo courtesy of Yelp.com Thursday, July 7, 6.00 to 8.00 p.m., at HyperText Bookstore Cafe, 107 Merrimack St. Free and open to all. This program is part of the Downtown First Thursdays arts and business series. Short fiction, long fiction, nonfiction, poetry, the whole literary bag. Writers reading: Walter…
Read More »Marie Sweeney was thinking about Catherine Goodwin today and shares the following . . . This photo of Catherine Goodwin in St. Patrick’s Cemetery popped-up in my Facebook feed this morning. With all the Lowell Walks Tours starting and my Saturday morning visit to the Lowell Cemetery for the Art…
Read More »From “History of Chelmsford” by Wilson Waters and Henry Spaulding Perham (Courier Citizen, 1917): “… Down as late as 1820, there were caught, mostly at this spot [site of the large mill of the Middlesex Company], and at the foot of Pawtucket falls, twenty-five hundred barrels of salmon, shad, and…
Read More »Here’s another bulletin from the South Common Historic District about the cultivated and wild things on my property.–PM Today’s picture is a small garden tower delivered by my brother Richard, my oldest brother, who is good at finding unusual items along the way. Arriving home one afternoon recently, I saw…
Read More »I recently came across this 1969 press release about the Smith Baker Center: Dedication of Acre community center planned for Sunday The Smith Baker Community Center of the Acre Model Neighborhood Organization (AMNO) will be dedicated Sunday, December 14, 1969 at 5 p.m. in the former First Congregational Church, located…
Read More »You have two walking tours to choose from this Saturday: At 10 am from the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, Craig Thomas of the Lowell Department of Planning and Development, will lead a walking tour of the Hamilton Canal District. At 1 pm, I will lead a…
Read More »‘Lowell Walks” photo exhibit going up today at Patrick Mogan Cultural Center (National Park Service) at 40 French Street. Official opening of the show on Saturday at 11.30, synching up with the first Walk of the season (Preservation Success Stories) that will conclude at the Mogan Center. Images include the…
Read More »I read a Memorial Day Facebook post about Michael J. Monahan of Dracut, a Keith Academy graduate and Boston College student who enlisted in the Marines and was killed at Quang Tri in South Vietnam in 1966. He was a radio operator, nineteen years old. There’s a playground on Pleasant…
Read More »On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 10 am, the city of Lowell will dedicate the intersection of Jackson and Canal Streets to David H. McNerney, a Lowell native who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam. David H. McNerney was born in Lowell on June 2, 1931 and…
Read More »It being Memorial Day weekend, instead of writing about Lowell politics this morning, I’d like to share the stories of some Lowell residents who gave their lives while in the service of their country. Donald Arcand – Vietnam War Born in 1946, Donald L. Arcand grew up on Ford Street…
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