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The Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust in partnership with Mass. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm is offering a wildlife tracking experience for adventurers of all ages on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 9 to 10.30 am, at the historic Hawk Valley Farm at 520 Varnum Ave. in Pawtucketville. Learn how to identify tracks…
Read More »At UMass Lowell. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »After posting my Week in Review column earlier today, a reader named Joe left the following comment: About a decade ago Ed Davis wanted to bring the shot spotter gunshot detection system to Lowell. I forget the reason but it never materialized. This week I watched councilors Belanger and Rourke…
Read More »On the Lowell Memorial Auditorium website, I found this fascinating nugget in Ed Harley’s history of the building—PM “After its dedication in 1922, the Lowell Memorial Auditorium hosted a variety of conventions, civic and religious affairs, and programs of purely recreational or educational values. Liberty Hall became the home of…
Read More »Fifty years ago on February 9, 1964 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their performance is a part of music history. Two years after the Sullivan performance, the Beatles came to Massachusetts. It was 1966 and I was fifteen years old…and I loved the Beatles (as I still…
Read More »My brother Richard recently came across a 1930s promotional flier for an event in Lowell that I had never heard about: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd appeared in the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Series on Dec. 13, 1935. His topic was the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, whose duration was from…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »“In early 1979, after living under the murderous Pol Pot regime for nearly four years, my family and I returned to our destroyed village, finding nothing but the ashes of our home and fallow fields where there had once been prosperous rice paddies. Life seemed hopeless, yet we were determined…
Read More »The discovery of a hidden historical gem seems to spark the interest of our readers. And then there’s the unfolding of the story behind the find. The collections of the Lowell Historical Society – an institution whose roots go back to 1868 – are replete with treasures – some just need a current unearthing. LHS…
Read More »There is an historical record of the Blizzard of 1978. Mass Moments does a good job recalling the wintry chaos of the storm and its aftermath in the Commonwealth. http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=45. But we who weathered that storm have our own personal recollections and family stories. I remember the Blizzard…
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