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Jim Peters is a regular contributor to this site who has written several times about Native Americans and Lowell. Here’s today’s installment: Lowell has a strong history of colonization by many groups over the years. We take it for granted that Lowell will absorb a new culture every forty years…
Read More »Reflections in the Merrimack Canal by Tony Sampas
Read More »Here’s the video of my March 27, 2011 talk on “Lowell in the Civil War” that was sponsored by the Lowell Historical Society. I discuss how men from Lowell played a critical part in the opening month of the American Civil War. Thanks to the Lowell National Park’s Phil Lupsiewicz…
Read More »The April/May edition of North Shore Magazine has a nice profile of Lowell with frequent quotes from our blog co-author Paul Marion. Check out the story HERE.
Read More »The Friends of Pollard Memorial Library will hold it’s annual book sale on Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 9 am to 3 pm at the Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway, Lowell. The Friends are accepting donations of books for the sale on Saturday April 2 (tomorrow) and on Saturday May…
Read More »Another excerpt from “The Record of a City: A Social Survey of Lowell Massachusetts”, written by George F. Kenngott in 1912 (p.29). Shortly after the close of the Civil War, the French-Canadians came in ever increasing numbers, induced by the demand for labor which the growth of manufactures created, and…
Read More »An incredible photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »Images of the Merrimack Canal by Tony Sampas
Read More »The topping off ceremony at the construction site of UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center was satisfyingly inspirational for many reasons, chief among them being the sight of a long white steel girder autographed by hundreds of people in blue Sharpie and bearing a small fir tree and US…
Read More »The crocuses poking up in my front yard must have missed the latest forecast, otherwise they would have stayed below ground. Hoping that the prediction of snow was just an April Fool’s joke, I clicked through the TV dial to survey several weather forecasts: Channel 5 puts Lowell on the…
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