Lowell

Babylon

This is a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate built by King Nebuchadnezzar II at the entrance to Babylon about 600 years before Jesus of Nazareth was born. You can’t see it in Iraq these days, but there’s a version in a German museum that was built in the 1930s from remains…

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Another Redistricting Scenario – Olver vs McGovern?

In today’s Boston Globe, senior writer Frank Phillips offers another scenario for redistricting the current ten congressional districts down to nine.  While recent chatter had Stephen Lynch (Ninth District) and newbie Bill Keating (Tenth District)  going head to head, the latest speculation has western Massachusetts veteran Congressman John Olver’s far-reaching…

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The Middlesex Canal

The following is the second in my series of posts about the canals of Lowell. The first described the Pawtucket Canal. The Proprietors of Middlesex Canal received its charter as a Massachusetts corporation on June 22, 1793, just a year after the incorporation of the group that would build the…

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