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The 2011 Lowell Folk Festival – The Birmingham Sunlights
The memory of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival lingers, thanks to these photos from Tony Sampas.
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St Patrick’s excavation delayed 24 hours
The archeological excavation of the lawn in front of St Patrick’s Church in Lowell which commenced last summer and was supposed to resume tomorrow has been pushed back a day due to travel delays experienced by the team coming from Ireland to conduct the dig. The project should begin on…
Read More »‘Of Gods and Men’: 2010 French Film
Last night, I watched on cable TV the 2010 award-winning French film “Of Gods and Men,” which is based on real events involving a small community of Trappist monks in Algeria in 1995. It is a period of civil war with Islamic extremists trying to impose their will on the local population.…
Read More »“Thinking Small in Greater Lowell” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Give the proverbial man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for…
Read More »Cape Cod National Seashore Bill Signed by JFK – August 7, 1961
Last week we posted a connection here to an interview with George Price – current Superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park and formerly a Deputy Superintendent in Lowell. Today MassMoments reminds us that it was on this day fifty years ago – August 7, 1961 that President John…
Read More »‘Bridge at Boott’ by Richard Marion
The Great American Hall of Wonders
At the end of last week I had to make a quick drive down and back to Washington. The morning I left, I noticed a review of an exhibit that recently opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum called “The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science and Invention in…
Read More »More Folk Festival Coverage
Folklorist Maggie Holtzberg of Lowell National Historical Park and the Massachusetts Cultural Council posted many photographs with commentary from the recent Lowell Folk Festival on her blog Keepers of Tradition, which you can find on the rh.com blogroll to the right on the home page. Here’s the connection.
Read More »Lowell Soldiers on the Civil War Lists
A Currier & Ives drawing of the Battle of Cedar Mountain on Aug. 9, 1862. Fourteen Lowell soldiers died (taken from Lowell Sun website) In today’s Lowell Sun, longtime staff writer and citizen historian Dave Peaver continues his coverage of Lowell and the Civil War. His focus today is on…
Read More »31 US Troops, 7 Afghans Killed as Helicopter Goes Down
Read the report from AOL/Huffington Post.
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