Menu
The City of Lowell’s Department of Planning and Development hosted a public meeting last night at the Pollard Memorial Library meeting room to update residents on plans to renovate the city’s South Common. DPD’s Rachel Kisker facilitated the meeting and landscape architect Nina Brown (whose first project in Lowell was…
Read More »There’s a report in today’s Boston Globe that there is a tentative agreement in place for the Steward Health Care System that recently purchased the Caritas hospital system to acquire Saints Medical Center in Lowell. For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, with community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expected…
Read More »Guy Lefebvre of the Lowell Gallery has a terrific collection of Civil War prints and memorabilia. Many of the images used to illustrate my talk on Sunday about “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War” came to me courtesy of Guy. Please visit his shop and check out…
Read More »Textile Bridge in Lowell by Tony Sampas
Read More »Yesterday I wrote about how, in the days following the April 19, 1861 riot in Baltimore that cut off Washington, DC from New England and the Atlantic states, General Benjamin Butler of Lowell opened a new line of communications to Washington by going through Annapolis. A long-term solution required the…
Read More »Tom Sexton, a Lowell High graduate and Alumni Hall of Famer and former Poet Laureate of Alaska, will read from his work in progress, which is a collection of sonnets about growing up in Lowell in the 1940s and 50s. He will also read from his new book, “I Think…
Read More »Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s lecture on “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War.” While the riot in Baltimore on April 19, 1861 which cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Charles Taylor and Sumner Needham and left two dozen of their comrades in the Sixth Massachusetts…
Read More »If you’re interested in Lowell’s and the Merrimack Valley’s economic future, read this piece in the NYTimes today: Allison Arrief’s “The Future of Manufacturing is Local.” If you want more of this kind of writing, get the NYT daily. When Marie posted about the food company on Phoenix Avenue producing…
Read More »One of the photographers at the Lowell High photo blog zoomed in on this face carved in the facade of the Pollard Memorial Library.
Read More »Save the Date! 5th Annual FREE Earth Day Festival! Hosted by Lowell’s Community Gardens Greenhouse Sunday, April 17 | Noon to 4pm Rain or Shine 220 Aiken Street, Lowell Lowell National Park Maintenance Site View/download the event flyer! Free hands-on fun for the whole family! * Create arts and crafts…
Read More »