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Marie Sweeney was thinking about Catherine Goodwin today and shares the following . . . This photo of Catherine Goodwin in St. Patrick’s Cemetery popped-up in my Facebook feed this morning. With all the Lowell Walks Tours starting and my Saturday morning visit to the Lowell Cemetery for the Art…
Read More »I missed a couple of weeks of real estate postings. Here they are, all at once. May 30, 2016 – Monday Memorial Day – no sales May 31, 2016 – Tuesday 125 Billings St for $240,000. Prior sale in 2002 for $211,150 515 East Merrimack St for $169,900. Prior sale…
Read More »From “History of Chelmsford” by Wilson Waters and Henry Spaulding Perham (Courier Citizen, 1917): “… Down as late as 1820, there were caught, mostly at this spot [site of the large mill of the Middlesex Company], and at the foot of Pawtucket falls, twenty-five hundred barrels of salmon, shad, and…
Read More »Just a quick update. I finally got around to Googling to identify the prolific yellow flower that’s been a star in my main garden for the past few years. See the image below for the Coreopsis Moonbeam or maybe Zagreb. With a big patch of them, as in my case,…
Read More »Perkins Place If you wanted to create a training film on how to best advocate your case before the city council, the remarks by residents of Perkins Place at last Tuesday’s council meeting would be a good starting point. Councilor Dan Rourke perhaps best illustrated how the residents’ oratory had…
Read More »Marie Sweeney attended the Lowell Cemetery Art Show today and composed the following post: On this gorgeous day what better place to be but in a garden! This morning I attended an Art Show arrayed below the spectacular canopy of a thick-trunked, leafy-branched, golden brown European Beech tree in the…
Read More »Here’s another bulletin from the South Common Historic District about the cultivated and wild things on my property.–PM Today’s picture is a small garden tower delivered by my brother Richard, my oldest brother, who is good at finding unusual items along the way. Arriving home one afternoon recently, I saw…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo LA Times It’s hard to get one’s mind around the horror of the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history. There seems to have been a perfect storm, with multiple factors coming together to carry out this…
Read More »I recently came across this 1969 press release about the Smith Baker Center: Dedication of Acre community center planned for Sunday The Smith Baker Community Center of the Acre Model Neighborhood Organization (AMNO) will be dedicated Sunday, December 14, 1969 at 5 p.m. in the former First Congregational Church, located…
Read More »You have two walking tours to choose from this Saturday: At 10 am from the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, Craig Thomas of the Lowell Department of Planning and Development, will lead a walking tour of the Hamilton Canal District. At 1 pm, I will lead a…
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