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Lowell Cemetery Tours this weekend
This weekend there will be two tours of the Lowell Cemetery. The first will be Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1 pm. The second will be Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 10 am. The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery which is off Rogers Street next…
Read More »‘To Have Great Blogs, There Must Be Great Readers’
To paraphrase old Walt Whitman writing about “great poets” and repeating a little something that I use at public events, I want to give a shout out to the readers, hundreds of ’em, thousands of ’em, who visit this publication again and again. You complete the loop. Today was a…
Read More »Lowell Water Power Video
The scenes of various locks and canals in this video are fabulous. The host of this five minute production on water power in Lowell is Shane White and his cameraman is James Strangroom. I am not sure if White and Strangroom made this video for a school project or just…
Read More »Farewell, Harmon Killebrew
The great Minnesota Twins teams of the mid-1960’s were favorites of mine as epic opponents of the Red Sox. Tony Oliva, Jim “Mudcat” Grant, Earl Battey, Camilo Pascual, Bob Allison, Don Mincher, Zoilo Versalles, Jim Kaat, Cesar Tovar, Ted Uhlaender, Jim Perry, Rich Rollins, and the rest. Rod Carew joined…
Read More »May 17th Meanderings, by Jim Peters
The following was submitted for posting by frequent contributor Jim Peters: I know it is spring because of the number of calls I receive for my landscaping business, but, more importantly, for the number of people I see getting out there and sprucing up their homes and businesses, like the…
Read More »First Glimpse of Marketing Design for ‘On the Road’ Movie
Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com
Read More »From the Lowell City Manager’s Blog: “One-Stop Business Resources Fair” on May 19, 2011
In doing our part to honor and support the small business community, the City of Lowell is hosting the fourth annual One-Stop Business Resource Fair at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell Inn and Conference Center on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The resource fair brings together under one roof the many organizations…
Read More »Three New ‘Lowell’ Books on May 22
Don’t miss the book release party for three new books from Loom Press by writers with strong Lowell connections who have created books with strong Lowell content. The event is Sunday, May 22, 2 pm, at O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St., on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. Everyone…
Read More »John Kerry Tells It Like It Is in Pakistan
I met John Kerry in Lowell when I was 18 years old, almost 40 years ago. He was running for Congress, and we know how that turned out. Nevertheless, I was impressed then, and I still like what I see most of the time. If someone is going to represent…
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