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This Sunday, April 15, 2018, at 2 pm, Lowell National Historical Park will host a 90-minute program and community conversation on social media in Lowell – both its history and how it is used today. Leading this discussion will be the four original contributors of this website: Paul Marion,…
Read More »Martin Luther King Jr. in Lowell This past Wednesday – April 4, 2018, was the 50th anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. Did you know that Dr. King preached in Lowell on Sunday, April 12, 1953? He was in the midst of his doctoral…
Read More »New City Manager Congratulations to Eileen Donoghue on her selection as Lowell’s seventeenth city manager. After voting for her unanimously on Tuesday night, the council assigned the task for negotiating an employment agreement to Mayor Samaras. This coming Tuesday night, one of the early items on the agenda is a…
Read More »City Manager Selection This Tuesday night the city council will meet at 5 pm to interview the three finalists for the position of Lowell City Manager. The three applicants are State Senator Eileen Donoghue, MIT assistant dean James White of Marshfield, and Linda Millsaps, the director of a North Carolina…
Read More »Happy St. Patrick’s Day St. Patrick’s Day is always a big deal in Lowell. I celebrated by joining Dave McKean and Walter Hickey on yesterday morning’s Acre Neighborhood Walking Tour which was part of Irish Cultural Week and also the kickoff of the 2018 Lowell walking tour season. Despite the…
Read More »Lowell Walks 2018 Lowell Walks is back for its fourth season of summertime Saturday morning walks. We’re offering seven walks this summer, but they will be supplemented by five more offered by Bob Forrant and Lowell National Historical Park. Here’s the Lowell Walks 2018 schedule, all Saturdays, all starting at…
Read More »We have a brand new poem by Tom Sexton, our far-flung contributor and faithful reader who is in Alaska this time of year. Tom, as many of our readers know, is the author of several books of poetry including “A Ladder of Cranes” (Univ. of Alaska Press, 2015) and “Bridge…
Read More »Private Dormitory on Merrimack Street The private dormitory proposed to be constructed by Union Lowell LLC at the former Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union site on the Merrimack-Cabot-Market streets block will be back before the Planning Board for a public hearing tomorrow night (Monday, March 5, 2018). This proposal contemplates building…
Read More »It’s about ten days early in the month for the timing of this post about a 2010 canal-side hike that appeared first on this blog and was reprinted in my book Mill Power. The weather is warming, and soon enough we’ll be into the days of preseason Lowell Walks and…
Read More »Pollard Memorial Library update The long awaited re-opening of the Pollard Memorial Library will HOPEFULLY take place this Wednesday. Closed since a burst pipe flooded the place during an early January freeze, the damage has been repaired. The library is the hub of literary, cultural and educational events for people…
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