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Here’s Dr. Patrick Mogan expounding on his vision of Lowell as an “educative city” in a 1995 video: [youtube]CRztwDJAhPs[/youtube]
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“Moments you never forget” – Marty Meehan
From the UMass Lowell website: [youtube]Ldl81SoKvqc[/youtube]
Read More »Christmas 2012, Market Basket Parking Lot
Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »“Roots of an Urban Cultural Park”
The following video, “Roots of an Urban Cultural Park”, was produced in 1991 by Lowell’s Human Services Corporation to tell the back story of the Lowell National Historical Park and the Lowell Heritage State Park. Featured in the video are Pat Mogan, Marie Sweeney, the late Peter Stamas, the late…
Read More »City of Lights parade
Here’s some video from last night’s City of Lights parade. It features the Lowell High marching band, Lowell High cheerleaders and JROTC, and the UMass Lowell marching band. [youtube]KoBh_MTFoMU[/youtube]
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the recent election: It has been a good few weeks. In the first place, we (Democrats, or the American People, or some group), won. Three weeks before the election, I walked into the Tsongas Headquarters and told a few of the people…
Read More »Post-Election Analysis by Renae Lias Claffey
Renae Lias Claffey, familiar to many in the Lowell community, has an Op-Ed piece in today’s Nashua Telegraph in which she analyzes the presidential election just past. Read her thoughts here.
Read More »Hot Chocolate Competition
Downtown Lowell was alive this afternoon as hundreds of people traveled to the five establishments that were participating the this year’s Hot Chocolate Competition. At each place, you exchanged a quarter for a 4-ounce Dixie cup filled with hot chocolate. One was served plain, another gave you a choice of…
Read More »George S. Boutwell, Radical Republican, 1865
November 24, 2012
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In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…
Read More »Construction of UML South Campus Parking Garage
Photos by Tony Sampas. From the UMass Lowell website: The South Campus garage will provide parking spaces for 762 cars on South Campus. Tucked between Mahoney Hall and Riverview Parking Lot, the garage will be conveniently located to all South Campus facilities. The six-and-one-half level open-parking facility is a 191,000-square-foot…
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