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In her book Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002), Martha Norkunas, Ph.D., writes about the South Common: “In 1845 the mayor of Lowell, Elisha Huntington, recognized that the city needed open public spaces beyond those of the Lowell Cemetery. The city purchased ten…
Read More »From the Pacific Rim and the richardhowe.com western desk comes a new poem by Tom Sexton, occupier of poetry precincts on both coasts of America and distinguished alumnus of Lowell High School. — PM . Leaving Lowell, Mass. for San Francisco, 1915, a Postcard Standing beside Mayor Murphy on the…
Read More »Here are two interesting videos of the Lowell Mills originally posted on YouTube by muehog99. Video Description: Lowell, MA was one of the great industrial towns during the American Industrial Revolution. The great mills in the town were water powered. The mills in large part were run by young girls…
Read More »Thanks to the UMass Lowell Honors Ambassadors program, the first TEDx Lowell event was held yesterday at UTEC on Warren Street. It was a great event, well-organized and interesting and all because of the great effort of the UMass Lowell students who ran the entire show. I was privileged to…
Read More »An article in today’s Boston Globe reminded me that tomorrow is the 192nd anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted who as author Carlos Rotella notes is ” the landscape architect — and journalist, conservationist, and public servant — who gave us Manhattan’s Central Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, the Niagara…
Read More »In all the good words spread around last Thursday at the announcement of the forthcoming UMass Lowell Innovation Hub in the 110 Canal St. building, formerly Freudenberg Nonwovens, this statement by Mayor Rodney Elliot resonated strongly for me because it had a familiar theme: “The location of UMass Lowell’s Innovation…
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