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Please join us this Saturday, July 22, 2017, for a Lowell Walk on Lowell Fires and the Lowell Fire Department. The tour begins at 10 am from Lowell National Park Visitor Center, is free, and lasts about 90 minutes. The tour will be led by Jason Strunk, a captain of…
Read More »I’m pinch-hitting for Dick this week while he is otherwise occupied. Instead of his usual round-up of major happenings and ongoing issues, I will share some observations about life in the city. It’s helpful to step back and look at the big picture. I had an opportunity to walk through…
Read More »Lowell Walks will resume this coming Saturday, July 8 2017, at 10 am at Lowell National Park Visitor Center. This week’s walk, Lowell Poems and Poets, will be led by Paul Marion. Paul plans to visit Lucy Larcom Park, Boott Mills, Kerouac Park, and other downtown sites. At each stop,…
Read More »The Lowell Walks summertime Saturday morning series of guided walks of downtown Lowell begin this Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 10 a.m. from Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street. The topic of this week’s tour is the Western Canal which I will lead. The tour will take…
Read More »This week’s Lowell Walk will begin at 10 am on Saturday (May 6) at Lowell National Park Visitor Center. The topic is Lowell Labor History and the walk will be led by UMass Lowell History Professor Bob Forrant, and by history graduate student Rachel Arnason. The walk will visit the…
Read More »I was the “talker” at stop #2 on today’s final tour in the 2016 Lowell Walks/Summer Series. This “History of the Lowell National Historical Park” walk was led by LNHP Superintendent Celeste Bernardo. With “The Community Wants a National Park” as the theme, I was asked about organizations that I…
Read More »Here’s another photo and post by Amy Bisson. The Northern Canal Walkway has been quite accessible this summer, but even so, whenever I see the gates open, I like to take advantage of this quiet walk. The Merrimack River is normally rock-strewn at this point; this summer the water levels…
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