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Living Madly: Night of the Treefrogs By Emilie-Noelle Provost The other night, I heard a chorus of gray treefrogs coming from the oak trees in my backyard. Native to the Northeast, these small frogs normally begin their mating calls in May after hibernating all winter. But because environmental conditions in…
Read More »With his book Estate Sale, Dan Murphy won the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry at the University of Utah Press. A writer with Lowell roots, he lives in the region with his family. Former US Poet Laureates Natasha Trethewey and Robert Pinsky call the book “a lovely…
Read More »Is target practice necessary? – (PIP # 80) By Louise Peloquin Coverage on Lowell police training. L’Étoile – December 5, 1924 THE POLICE DOES NOT NEED REVOLVER PRACTICE ——- Deputy Downey says using this arm is a rather simple affair. ——- Responding to journalists yesterday, Deputy Superintendent…
Read More »The Lowell City Council resumed meeting last week for the first time since August 12, 2025. Before getting to that, let’s look at last Tuesday’s preliminary election results. Preliminary elections were required in just three council districts. Here are the results with incumbent councilors indicated by “(I)” and the candidates…
Read More »This news release is reprinted from regalhousepublishing.com David Moloney I spent my twenties working in juvenile residential homes, mental hospitals, and a county jail. During that time, I wrote constantly—journals, stories, notes—keeping the muscles loose, even if the writing went nowhere. After my wife became pregnant, I left the jail…
Read More »Papa By Leo Racicot My father, Leo-Joseph Albert Racicot, was the son of Eliza (Dupuis) and Alphonse Racicot. A quick dip in the genealogy pond a couple of years ago told me Alphonse’s grandfather, Bon’homme (Bunnum for short), who hailed from Languedoc, migrated to Quebec, Canada sometime in the middle…
Read More »The results of yesterday’s Preliminary Election in Lowell are available on our Elections page.
Read More »Katharine Burrage: First woman Textile School grad and pioneering occupational therapist By Bernie Zelitch On the evening of June 3, 1899, Lowell Textile School (LTS)—the first textile school in New England—held the graduation of its debut class. Of the 25 students honored in the crowded lecture hall on Middle Street,…
Read More »Royal Stopover in Lowell – (PIP #79) By Louise Peloquin Lowell has welcomed many celebrities over the last two centuries. Charles Dickens’s 1842 visit is probably the best known. Eileen Loucraft provided a list of US Presidents who have passed through town. (1) The following piece offers a…
Read More »This coming Thursday, September 11, 2025, at 6pm at the Dracut Historical Society in Harmony Hall, 1660 Lakeview Ave, Dracut, the Greater Lowell Franco-American Digital Archives in partnership with the Dracut Historical Society, will present “Le P’Tit Canada”, a 29-minute long film from the 1979 series Le Sons des Francais D’Amerique…
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