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1970’s — Olsen Hall, Olney Hall, Lydon Library, Durgin Hall, Weed Hall, O’Leary Library, McGauvran Student Center Health & Social Sciences Building at UMass Lowell, South Campus (to open in 2013) 2010’s — Emerging Technologies & Innovation Center, Health & Social Sciences Building, UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, UMass Lowell…
Read More »This coming Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags, I will give a talk on Lowell in the Civil War. The talk will focus on the lives of a number of individuals such as Timothy Crowley (shown above) who are representative of…
Read More »“Canal Wall” by Tony Sampas
Read More »While women were preferred by customers hearing that important question “Number please?” – the working conditions and wage for these women in the emerging communication business was far from preferential. With rules and standards more rigid than those for their sisters at the loom in the 1830s, the New England telephone operators…
Read More »Yesterday I returned from a long weekend in Baltimore for that city’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Pratt Street Riot, the April 19, 1861 confrontation that cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor. The centerpiece of the Baltimore celebration was a parade…
Read More »Monday being the stand-in observance for Patriots Day (April 19), and since the day was sunny even if windy, my wife and I took a walk through the Back Central neighborhood. We were pulled along for the first half by our enthusiastic Boston Terrier who could not have more enjoyed the field…
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Read More »Received this information from Professor Bill Berkowitz, Dept. of Psychology at UMass/Lowell: We thought readers of the Richard Howe blog and friends would be interested in an upcoming meeting on Community Innovation in Lowell, to be held on Tuesday, April 26, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. in Coburn Hall, Room 205,…
Read More »Click here to see photographer Terje Sorgjerd’s amazing views of the sky and earth from a mountain in Spain: The Mountain. I picked this up from AOL/Huffington Post.
Read More »Eight railroad cars bearing seven companies of the Sixth Regiment made it to Camden Station, but four companies in four cars remained behind. The four captains commanding those companies decided to march through the city. Captain Follansbee of Company C took the lead. The troops had to overcome a number…
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