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My level of civic engagement increased substantially this week. On Monday night, I attended a public meeting on the city’s draft Master Plan, Sustainable Lowell 2025, and last night I watched the city council meeting. Well, only the first two and a half hours of the city council meeting. After…
Read More »Before the Lowell Folk Festival, before Winterfest, before the Southeast Asian Water Festival. Click on image to enlarge.
Read More »“A. G. Pollard’s” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 Click on the image to enlarge. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »With the demolition of the former St. Joseph’s Hospital on Pawtucket Street nearly completed as part of the UMass Lowell creation of University Crossing, it seemed appropriate to offer some information about the hospital and its origins. Originally it was known as the Lowell Corporation Hospital – established on November 1, 1839 –…
Read More »In 1988, the National Park Service and Center for Archaeological Studies at Boston University were asked by the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission to investigate the grounds of the former Boott Mills boarding houses off French Street (one remains today, known as the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center), and the Kirk…
Read More »Tonight seventy or so people gathered at UMass Lowell’s Alumni Hall for the first of two public comment session on the city of Lowell’s draft Master Plan. The full plan is available on the DPD website and a second comment session will be held this Wednesday, January 9th at Lowell…
Read More »The city of Lowell will host a public review and comment session on the city’s draft master plan, “Sustainable Lowell 2025”, tonight at UMass Lowell’s Alumni Hall from 6 until 8 p.m. Alumni Hall is located at 84 University Avenue on the school’s North Campus. A second review and comment…
Read More »From a list included in “The Lowell Board of Trade Year Book, 1911-12,” whose president was Harvey B. Greene. Articles Made in Lowell . “Acids, Advertising Novelties, Ammunition Hoists, Ale, Army Duck, Art Needle Work, Asbestos Machinery, Automatic Time Tables, Automobile Accessories, Automobile Parts, Awnings and Tents, Axminster Carpets, Badges,…
Read More »Rev. Wilson Waters. c. 1891 (Photo by Odin Fitz, courtesy of The Artemas Ward House and Its Collections, Harvard College Library) On October 12, 1910, the Rev. Wilson Waters, B.D., read an essay about writing history at a meeting of the Lowell Historical Society. Wilson is the author of A…
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