Lowell High Tour tomorrow

Tomorrow – Saturday, June 20, 2015 – is the Inside Lowell High School guided tour, part of the Lowell Walks summertime series.  Meet at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street at 10 am to meet our tour guide, Lowell High Headmaster Brian Martin.  The tour is free…

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The Paddy Camps of Lowell

Nancy Pitkin sent the following about an upcoming selection of the Pollard Memorial Library’s nonfiction book group: Father John’s Medicine is engraved in the lintel of one of the many renovated historic buildings in Lowell on Market Street and is now apartments. I’d always assumed that the name for Fr.…

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Coburn’s Pitch

Years ago, I wrote a rhyming poem about an incident at Bunker Hill described in Silas Coburn’s “History of Dracut.” The story is that Captain Peter Coburn of Dracut led a company of men from his town in the battle. He was shot by the British three times, in the…

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