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Armory Park Monument – 50-74 Westford St – This monument was dedicated on November 11, 1985, on the site of the city’s historic armory which was constructed in 1891 and demolished in 1973. The inscription on the monument is ARMORY PARK – IN APPRECIATION TO ALL NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WHO TRAINED…
Read More »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…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I was happier than I thought I’d be yesterday morning when Kamala Harris announced her selection of Tim Walz as her running mate. That quiet sense of elation rose to celebration last evening with their first joint…
Read More »With the Lowell City Council holding regular meetings on just the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month during the summer, we have a second consecutive week with no meeting to report on, so today we’ll pay another visit to Lowell’s political history. In the May 12, 2024, edition, I…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl is a confection, set in the 1980’s in Paris. Stella, a 20-something copy editor in New York, leads a highly routinized life, the regularity of which is comforting to her. She is estranged…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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