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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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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…
Read More »Contact: Matthew Corcoran, corcoran00@gmail.com, 978-677-1069 INVENTORY, BY ADAM H. MARCHAND, AN INSTALLATION OPENING AT THE WASHINGTON STREET ART CENTER, 10 NOVEMBER SOMERVILLE, Mass. — With Inventory, Adam H. Marchand has cataloged thirty years’ worth of his possessions on index cards. On each card (there are 2,500) he has typed brief…
Read More »With a large part of Lowell’s population either from Cambodia or of Cambodian descent, we should pay particular attention to the first-ever visit to Cambodia by a sitting U.S. President. Here are some stories about the visit from that region’s media: From the Phnomh Penh Post: “Obama’s meeting with Cambodia’s…
Read More »The following showed up as a comment and came to me by email. I’ve never heard of Jack Boston but thought some of our readers might have. Please leave a comment on this post if you have any info. I am looking for a picture of a man by the…
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