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The following entry is cross posted from Jack Neary’s own Blog, Shards. So much has been written over the past few days about my friend–our friend, everybody’s friend–former State Rep Ed LeLacheur and his boundless enthusiasm for life and service, that nothing I can contribute here can really add much…
Read More »Lowell native Dr. Brian C. Mitchell wrote of the Irish in Lowell 1821-1861 and the Lowell Acre’s “Paddy Camps”. The wire story the other day was just a teaser. A story in today’s Globe tells the fuller story of the teaming-up of students from UMass Lowell with researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast for…
Read More »Sixty two years ago today the iconic TV show Candid Camera first aired on ABC. Few people (or at least me anyway) remember that Candid Camera actually began as a radio show called Candid Microphone. In June of 1947 Candid Microphone hit the airwaves with a bang. Its quick success prompted…
Read More »Here is an interesting slide show about the town of Tewksbury originally posted by littlewolfmesta
Read More »The entry below is crossed posted from local playwright Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I would like to introduce you to Timmy on the right, and Eddie, below. They are very sweet little dogs owned by my brother and my sister-in-law, and they live with all of us in Derry,…
Read More »James Clark Westford Historical Society artifacts As a founding member of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation and a member of the Foundation’s Distribution Committee, I was interested in a nugget of information in today’s SUN. In the article “Keeing History Dry” – Westford Historical Society member James Clark notes that…
Read More »Statue of “The Worker” Public Art in Lowell, Massachusetts
Read More »After spilling nearly 127 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP Global claims its renegade well is plugged. This morning for the first time I logged into BP’s website and viewed the numerous webcams providing live video feeds of the well. If you haven’t checked this out,…
Read More »The entry below is crossed posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Eighty-seven years ago yesterday, then-Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his father, Colonel John Coolidge, in the tiny Vermont village of Plymouth Notch when word arrived that President Warren Harding had died. By the light of a kerosene lamp,…
Read More »Tonight on Larry King Live rapper Wyclef Jean will announce his candidacy for the Presidency of Haiti If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything (Wyclef Jean). Jean was born in Haiti in…
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