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Last Saturday I visited Mill No. 5 on Jackson Street for “Love Buzz”, a pre-Valentine’s Day shopping and entertainment bazaar at a great new Lowell venue. I’m a great fan of Western Ave and the other artist outlets in the city and was pleased to discover that the retail outlets…
Read More »It was a good morning for a walk in the park, national historical park, that is, so Rosemary and I took Ringo the dog for a mighty hike down along the lower reach of the Western Canal at the bottom of Suffolk Street and then through the mill yard at…
Read More »This is a shout out to everyone at Merrimack Repertory Theatre who brought audiences an outstanding production of The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, featuring Miche Braden in the lead role. A hot three-piece band made up of Jim Hankins on bass, Aaron Graves on piano, and…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Music Theatre is back this spring at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Concert Hall with its first production of the year on March 21 and 22. Tickets are available online now. There will be two summer productions this year: Fiddler on the Roof, starring Eddie Mekka (familiar to TV audiences…
Read More »Roger and Soben Pin formerly published the Khmer Post newspaper in Philadelphia before moving to Lowell more than a year ago. In Philadelphia, they routinely held gatherings where members of the city’s Cambodian community and public officials could come together and discuss the issues of concern to the community. Roger…
Read More »In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration used the job-creating vehicle of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to employ artists in a marketing campaign called “See America,” which promoted the beauties and treasures of the national parks of America. This year, the Creative Action Network, made up of designers…
Read More »This a double cross-post linking a “trip down memory lane” as recalled by our friend Dave McKeon at LowellIrish and my personal spin in a post on the Lowell Historical Society site. The subject is simple – the famous Lowell Bradt’s Soda cracker. Did you ever have a Bradt’s cracker? A Lowell…
Read More »The story of Solon Perkins and the Perkins family – ancestry and progeny – is further revealed by history researcher Eileen Loucraft. She forwarded this recent find: Re: Solon Perkins ~ His father, Apollos Perkins (1799-1877) was the editor of the first northern NH Whig newspaper “White Mountain Aegis” –…
Read More »The politics and history of Lowell often dominate our discussions here, but sometimes it’s the little things around us that make this city such a fascinating place to live. From time to time, we’ve urged people to write about or photograph the things in Lowell that make this a unique…
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