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Lowell Cemetery Tours Today & Tomorrow
Lowell Cemetery tours today at 1 pm and tomorrow (Saturday, Sept 23) at 10 am. Both start at Knapp Ave entrance, alongside Shedd Park. Tours are free and last about 90 minutes.
Read More »“What Happened?” Clinton gets it by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “What Happened?” It’s a question many have been asking at least daily for the last ten months. So it’s an apt title for Hillary Clinton’s new book, a reasonably clear-eyed analysis of the 2016 presidential election debacle. While…
Read More »Charter Change Subcommittee Meeting Report
The city council’s Ad Hoc Subcommittee on a possible change to the city’s charter met last night (September 20, 2017) at the Lowell Senior Center. Present were Subcommittee Chair Jim Leary and member Councilor Bill Samaras. Also present were Councilors Rita Mercier and Corey Belanger, and City Manager Kevin Murphy,…
Read More »Lowell Charter Change Meeting Tonight
Tonight at 6 pm at the Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway, the city council’s Ad Hoc Charter Review Committee will meet to discuss possible changes to the organization of Lowell’s government and to how we elect our city councilors. The choice of meeting site and past practice of this committee…
Read More »‘Jack Kerouac Dreaming’ by Dan Sklar
The annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! literary festival is coming up, October 5-9. Here’s the schedule of events. My writing colleague from Somerville, Mass., Doug Holder, sent us this poem by his fellow faculty member at Endicott College, Dan Sklar, who teaches creative writing. Dan’s latest book, Flying Cats, Actually Swooping, was published…
Read More »Lowell’s Summer Performances 1990
This past weekend’s inaugural Creaticity Festival on Market Street got me thinking about civic events in Lowell in the past. That got me digging into the archives where I found a schedule of performances in Lowell during the summer of 1990. Here they are: Mondays – Classic Car-Nite with the…
Read More »Lowell in World War One: Sept 17 – Sept 22, 1917
This is the 23nd weekly installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago this week: September 17, 1917 – Monday – General reorganization of Russian…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: September 17, 2017
Creaticity Festival Congratulations to the Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) and all its partners and participants in the brand new Lowell Art & Maker Festival, aka Creaticity, which began yesterday on Market Street and continues today from noon until 6 pm. Fifty tents line both sides of Market Street, filled…
Read More »Andover Democrats honor Niki Tsongas
This past Sunday, September 10, 2017, the Andover Democratic Town Committee honored Congresswoman Niki Tsongas at a breakfast meeting at the Andover Country Club. The following is a summary of her remarks at the breakfast: Niki Tsongas cited changed personal circumstances as contributing to her decision not to seek reelection,…
Read More »‘Farewell, Little Canada’ by Charles Gargiulo (excerpt two)
What follows is another excerpt from Charlie Gargiulo’s memoir “Farewell, Little Canada,” in which he describes growing up in tumultuous times in the mostly French Canadian-American neighborhood that once existed close to the big bend in the Merrimack River. This is the second excerpt published on this blog, which we…
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