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Shortly after 11 am on April 19, 1861 as the Lowell-based Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment marched through Baltimore on its way to reinforce the nearly undefended Washington DC, a pro-Southern mob attacked the soldiers from Lowell. Within an hour, Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor were…
Read More »Tony Sampas captures the point at which the Merrimack Canal and the Eastern Canal meet
Read More »This is interesting. Follow the “Room for Debate” topic of the day on career counseling from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Read the feature here, and buy the NYT if you want more.
Read More »A group of talented Lowell High students taking an after school photography class conducted by noted area photographer John Boutselis have posted their photos online. From time to time I’ll be posting some of their work here. Below is “Church Street Bridge, Winter”
Read More »Poet Marie Louise St. Onge, who has deep roots in Lowell’s French Canadian-American community, sent this poem from Maine.—PM . Thaw . The Merrimack loosed from the jaws of late March speeds by high. And dark smooth currents run fast not like a steed whose head is high mane and tail…
Read More »Out walking this morning with my brother in the middle zone of the Highands, looping around Penniman, outer Cupples Square, Liberty, Calvary Baptist Church, South Walker, Shaw, Eastern Electrical Repair, the Morey School, our one-and-only urban glacier monument, and the Donut Shack. Strong sunshine even with weather reports calling for some amount of snow…
Read More »Scott Plath of Cobblestones has a blog called “SPLATH! Random Raves of a Restranteur” to which I’ve tardily added a link in our blogroll in the right hand column. Scott has a great post about last night at the restaurant. A night already busy due to the pre-concert crowd that…
Read More »Bear with me while I venture into the unfamiliar world of science . . . Tonight we see what’s known as the Supermoon which occurs when the moon is at its closest point to the earth. Tonight, the moon is nearer to us than it’s been in 18 years (although…
Read More »Thanks to Alan Crane on Facebook for posting this item from informationclearinghouse.info. Following is an excerpt from a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Kansas on March 18, 1968, when he was campaiging for the Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency.—PM “… All around us, all…
Read More »The moon is big tonight. From the screenplay of the film “Moonstruck”: Old Man: “La bella luna! The moon brings the woman to the man. Capice?” From Edwin L. Aguirre, Science & Technology Writer, UMass Lowell, Public Affairs: “The Full Moon rising after sunset tomorrow, Saturday (March 19) is the largest…
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