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The machinery of justice grinds on in the dispute between the National Park Service and Enel Green Power North America over the future condition of the scenic and significant Pawtucket Dam at the falls on the Merrimack River in northern Lowell. The custodians of our country’s heritage treasures are trying…
Read More »Rico Petrocelli
Some baseball names are easy to remember.
Read More »‘A Nation Once Again’
Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, I lived in a mostly French-Canadian ethnic world. Two sets of my first-cousins had an Irish-American mother and father respectively. St. Patrick’s Day for my father meant a green tie with a shamrock for Mass on the Sunday closest to March 17. My…
Read More »The “Ides”
Today March 15, is the infamous Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman Senators led by Brutus and Cassius. The murder became the subject of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Consequently, most high school students readily remember the eerie…
Read More »Civil War Talk this Sunday at 10am
This coming Sunday, March 16, 2014, at 10 a.m., I’ll be giving a talk about Lowell in the Civil War at UnchARTed Gallery at 66 Merrimack Street in Lowell (right next to Edible Arrangements at the corner of Merrimack and Central). The event is in conjunction of an exhibition of…
Read More »Greeley Peace Scholars Reunion @ UMass Lowell, April 9
Wednesday, April 9, 2014; Discussion, 5 to 7 pm; Reception, 7 to 9.30 pm “Reflections on Peace-Building” is the first-ever gathering of distinguished leaders who have served as the UMass Lowell Dana McLean Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. The scholars will engage in a panel discussion moderated by Marcellette Williams, UMass…
Read More »Lowell Forgotten Finds: “Hi Hat Man”
As Curator Ryan Owen delves more into the Lowell Historical Society’s old and diverse collection, he will be reporting about the oddities and curiosities that abound. His most recent find has us remembering an iconic entertainment venue and seeing perhaps the earliest Lowell bobble-head. This is a cross-post from the LHS blog site about the Curator’s latest find.…
Read More »New Kerouac Novel Released
Today is officially Jack Kerouac Day in Massachusetts. It’s the author’s birthday, March 12 (1922). The Governor will issue a proclamation in recognition of the day. The legislature put this on the books in 2001, thanks to state Sen. Moore of Worcester, Lowell’s Statehouse delegation at the time, local citizen…
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