Above: Entrance to St. Mary Cemetery on River Road in North Tewksbury Yesterday – starting earlier than usual this year, Bill and I made our Memorial Day visit to some family graves at three local cemeteries – St. Patrick and the Edson cemeteries in Lowell and St. Mary Cemetery in…
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We had the windows open until after dark last evening, and the birds were singing and calling loudly, sending the outside into the living room. Feels like a summer morning today. Out early with the dog, and the air was of a quality that registered as summer in my brain.…
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Is Lowell the 18th most dangerous city in America? It is according to this article (which is the subject of a vigorous Facebook discussion right now) on the website Business Insider. Purportedly based on the latest FBI statistics, “The cities on this list are ranked by violent crimes including murder,…
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Mark you calendars for the next gathering of the Greater Lowell blogosphere. It’s Thursday, June 9 from 6 pm till 8 pm at Gary’s Ice Cream, 131 Gorham Street (Rte 3A), East Chelmsford. Everyone – blog writers, commenters and readers as well as those on Facebook and Twitter are all…
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The Greater Lowell Veterans’ Council and its constituent organizations have a full schedule of activities over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend: FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS: Memorial Service; Sat., May 28th @9:15am, MOH Joseph Ouellette Memorial Service @ St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Riverneck Rd., Chelmsford, MA LOWELL VETERANS’ COUNCIL: Memorial Service, Sat. May…
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Did I mention UMass Lowell alums Robert and Donna Manning and the $5 million for the development of a new home for Management studies: The Robert Manning School of Business? See below for another post with links to media articles. Robert Manning will be the Commencement speaker at the Tsongas Center…
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Thanks to Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! on Facebook and the blog Reader’s Almanac of the Library of America for this film clip and commentary about Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. The footage is from November 1975 in Edson Cemetery in Lowell, when Bob Dylan was in the city with…
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UMass Lowell today announced a donation valued at $5 million from alumni Robert and Donna Manning. A new home for the university’s College of Management will be named the Robert Manning School of Business. Read the Boston Herald report here, and get the Herald if you want to read…
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There’s nothing that will match Jack Kerouac bobble head night at the Lowell Spinners, but a mailing I received yesterday with this year’s special event schedule discloses some interesting choices: Carl Yastrzemski (June 18) Rich Gedman (June 27) Bobby Doerr (July 1) Terry Francona (July 20) Ryan Kalish (July 25)…
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One hundred fifty years ago today, just two days after taking command of Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, Lowell’s Ben Butler made a decision that changed history. Sometime during the night of the 23-24 of May, three slaves who had been digging gun positions for the Confederate forces besieging Fort…
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