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It’s once again time for the Fall tours of Lowell Cemetery. Here are the dates and times: Friday, September 27 at 1 pm Saturday, September 28 at 10 am Friday, October 4 at 1 pm Saturday, October 5 at 10 am All tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance which…
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Read More »The final speakers at this morning’s Lowell Plan Breakfast were Francey Slater and Colleen Brady, two participants in the 2013 Public Matters program which is co-sponsored by the Lowell Plan and the Lowell National Historical Park. Neither Slater nor Brady were born in Lowell; they both came to the city…
Read More »I was traveling last weekend and so am just getting around to posting real estate sales in Lowell for the week beginning on September 16, 2013: September 16, 2013 – Monday 25 B St for $189,000. Prior sale in 1998 for $109,000 20 Woodland Dr #327 for $165,000. Prior in…
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Read More »In this space I’ve written about the house party and the “time” as building blocks of a political campaign. Another staple of any campaign is the “stand out.” Some people call this “holding signs,” and the insiders refer to this activity as “viz” or “doing a visibility.” The stand out…
Read More »UMass Lowell’s Middle East Center for Peace, Development and Culture is sponsoring a Teach-In on the “Crisis in Syria” and the public is invited. SYRIAN CRISIS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Teach-In at UMass Lowell Tuesday, October 1 2:00 – 3:15pm O’Leary Library 222 Students, Faculty, Staff and Community Welcome …
Read More »This week master traditional Irish musician and master fiddler Seamus Connolly will be honored as a 2013 NEA National Heritage Fellow. Well-known locally – Lowellians and longtime Lowell Folk Festival goers have enjoyed Séamus Connolly’s amazing talent as well as his warmth and down-to-earth charm. Just down the road at Boston College,…
Read More »In this space I wrote about a political house party the other day. Another building block of the local campaign is “the time,” a term with aromatic political roots that is not used as much in Lowell these days, but is familiar to politicos in places like South Boston and…
Read More »Once you get out of the tourist areas in Germany and into the smaller cities and towns, every gasthaus (a small, local restaurant that also serves prodigious amounts of beer) has a stammtisch. A stammtisch is a table, usually round, that is positioned near the entrance that is occupied by…
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