Lowell Walks Retrospective

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:30 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor community room, I will be hosting a Lowell Walks Retrospective. The purpose of this event is to review the very successful Lowell Walks program of this summer and to begin planning for our 2016 Lowell…

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Lowell Cemetery Columbarium Dedication Speech

Thanks to Jim Latham, President of the Trustees of Lowell Cemetery, for sharing the text of his remarks made at Saturday’s dedication of the Oliver Whipple Columbarium at Lowell Cemetery: Good Morning, I’m Jim Latham, President of the Trustees here at Lowell Cemetery. Other Trustees in attendance this morning are…

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Origins of Lowell High’s Carney Medals

Here’s another contribution by Jim Peters on the history of public education in Lowell:     In 1859, the School Committee was larger than it is today and very active.  There were Committee activities, meetings, teacher hirings and firings, and many of those items that we still have the school…

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