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Another amazing photo from Tony Sampas
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“Kerouac at the Pawtucket Falls” ~ Fantasy
To stir the Pawtucket Falls Dam issue a little bit more and with a nod to Jack Kerouac and his relationship with the river, I’ve posted this fanciful image of Jack and the Dam. I found this image here along with many other Merrimack River and Lowell power canals images: http://images.mitrasites.com/lowell-power-canal-system-and-pawtucket-gatehouse.html. Taking…
Read More »Pawtucket Falls Dam Inspires Awe! Great Stone Dam ~ not So Much
Great Stone Dam across the Merrimack River at Lawrence Massachusetts from the ENEL website . The crestgate system installed by ENEL is visible enough for you to see what a so-called “bladder” dam looks like. Another view of the Great Stone Dam, May 2010 courtesy of Corey Sciuto. This view allows for a fuller…
Read More »South Common Earth Day Event, April 22, Rogers School
On Sunday, April 22, some interesting people will gather at the Rogers School on Highland Street, on the edge of the South Common, for Earth Day activities. We will have a guided tour of the South Common Historic District by Dick Howe Jr, unplugged music by Joe Darensbourg, a display of design plans showing…
Read More »Why we like Lowell
Inspired by a similar effort in Cambridge, a largely anonymous group of Lowell residents transformed the vacant storefront on Market Street between Brew’d Awakening and TD Bank into a colorful proclamation of why so many like the city of Lowell so much. If you’re downtown today, stop by, check it…
Read More »John Prendergast, Greeley Peace Scholar @ UMass Lowell
John Prendergast of the Enough Project starts his Greeley Peace Scholar residency at UMass Lowell today. He will visit the campus three times between April and November. Several of the events will be open to the public. The first public events are tomorrow: “The Day Without Violence Lecture,” sponsored by the…
Read More »Presidential visits to Lowell
My recent article in the local history section of Howl in Lowell (Andrew Jackson, Charles Dickens and Lowell) told the story of visits to Lowell by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 and English novelist Charles Dickens in 1842. My story prompted Eileen Loucraft to compile a list of all US…
Read More »Review of “FemNoire” by Jackie Doherty
As many of you may have read last week, Jackie Doherty has returned to blogging. Although she’s awaiting some technical tweaks to her site, she has resumed adding content and has given us permission to cross-post her review of last night’s Festival of Women Playwrights (aka FemNoire) from the Whistler…
Read More »‘Innovative Cities: Lowell, Mass.’ Group on Facebook
I’ve been using Facebook since January 2011, and this online communications tool continues to impress me. Corey Sciuto, a fellow Lowell blogger and member of this year’s class in the Public Matters leadership development program of the Lowell Plan Inc and Nat’l Park Service, wrote to me on FB and said…
Read More »Dickens in Lowell National Park
At about 6 pm on Friday, March 30, Chancellor Martin T. Meehan of UMass Lowell spoke to an audience of more than 100 people in the Moody Street Feeder multi-purpose room on the fourth floor of the Boott Cotton Mills Museum. Behind him, through tall east-facing windows of Boott Mill #6, segmented like rectangular-blocked…
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