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I attended today’s Parker Lecture at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center and very much enjoyed listening along with about 50 others to Tom Sexton read many of his Lowell poems. The topics, characters, and language involved transported me back to younger days making the room sound much like a…
Read More »On HuffingtonPost – Zoe Triska tell us the results of HuffPo’s query of readers about books they are currently reading published over fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly given yet another movie version – Jane Eyre was a popular choice. Of the nineteen books and their covers on the wesite, Jack…
Read More »Of all the famous and infamous experiences of Lowell’s Benjamin Butler during his service as a Union General during the American Civil War, perhaps the most important was a decision he made in May of 1861, just a month into the war and just a day after he took command…
Read More »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
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