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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Jeb Bush put his foot in it last week when explaining his aspirations for improving the economy. His assertion that “people need to work longer hours” continues to prompt outrage. Even looking at it in context doesn’t help…
Read More »This is a cross-post from Dave McKean’s LowellIrish. Dave tells of more grave site discoveries in St. Patrick’s Cemetery by Walter and Karen Hickey – these are of the Daughters of Charity. Dave notes that nearby, the recently rediscovered and cleared grave stones of some SNDs /Notre Dame nuns are…
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Lowell Walks Lowell Walks resumed yesterday with Dave McKean leading the “Irish in the Acre” tour. Dave has done this tour during Irish Cultural Week for years but had to cancel this past March due to all the snow. Yesterday, he led a group of 129 people which broke all…
Read More »The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: July 6, 2015 – Monday 1431 Pawtucket Blv Unit 22 for $185,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $152,500 129 Branch St for $80,000. Prior sale in 2012 for $100,000 52-54 Gershom Ave for $235,000. Prior sale in 1981 July 7,…
Read More »From citylab.com, thoughts and findings about what makes a city function best. And the analysis links back to famed urban thinker Jane Jacobs. I see a lot of overlap with the ideas that are the basis for the national park in Lowell or what used to be called “the urban…
Read More »Julie Mofford, a former staffer at the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, who currently lives in midcoast Maine where she writes and works as a museum and historical society consultant, recently posted on Amazon.com her review of Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park, a 2014 book…
Read More »I learned this week that my late mother’s brother, Charles J. Roy, passed away after a long illness. He had been living with his wife, Frances, in Menifee, Calif., the state where he had moved in the mid-1950s. His son and daughter, Charles Jr. and Maureen, are in California with…
Read More »The Boston Globe today reports on the Peabody-Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass., planning to expand its exhibition and curatorial space, a major step forward for the already formidable museum. This is worth noting in Lowell because we must keep our eye on the regional competition in the creative economy.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The July Fourth holiday heightens an appreciation of the remarkable events of last week, events that validate our forebears’ notion “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that…
Read More »The Lowell Walks guided downtown walking tour series resumes this Saturday with The Irish in the Acre to be led by Dave McKean. A history teacher and the archivist of St. Patrick’s parish, Dave regularly leads this tour as part of Irish Cultural Week (although he had to cancel it…
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