Paris 2024: When Women Became Olympians

Paris 2024 – When Women became Olympians By Louise Peloquin The 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee has proudly declared that the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games are welcoming the same number of men and women athletes. Most Olympic fans have heard of French educator Pierre de Coubertin’s central role in reviving…

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Harry Allen Field

Harry Allen Field – at St. Louis Field – Joseph H. “Harry” Allen was known as the “King of Softball” in Lowell and had 1500 wins as a pitcher over a 20-year career. His teams won state championships in 1953 and 1956. He pitched the first night softball game at…

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Armand W. Alix Square

Armand W. Alix Square – Adams/Market/Cabot/Salem streets – Armand V. Alix died in Lowell on November 8, 1921, at age 23 as the result of wounds suffered in 1918 during the Argonne Offensive in France while he served with Battery F, 102nd Field Artillery Regiment. He was survived by his…

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Paris 2024 – Breaking ahead!

Paris 2024 – Breaking ahead! By Louise Peloquin Featuring urban-pop pirouettes, aerial arabesques, moondance balancés and athletic ronds de jambe, all punctuated by acrobatic grands jetés, street-corner ballet is making its debut in the Paris Games. Breakdancing, also known as B-boying, B-girling or breaking, was created in the ’70’s in the Bronx by young…

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Lowell Politics: August 4, 2024

August 4, 2024 In the closing days of its just finished 2023-24 session, the Massachusetts State Legislature passed House Bill 4700, An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell. The parcels to be conveyed are the former…

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Joseph Albert Square

Joseph Albert Square – Worthen and Moody streets – Joseph E. Albert was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 1, 1945, at age 33 while serving with the United States Marine Corps. Born in 1912, Albert attended St. Joseph’s School and worked at the Lowell Ordnance plant prior…

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Constantinos Aggelokos Square

For several years I’ve been compiling information about all the monuments and memorials in Lowell. There are nearly 700 on my list thus far. Besides identifying them all, I am researching the person, group, or event memorialized.  Today I begin posting these biographical sketches here, one-by-one, with a couple each…

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