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Read More »Healey a worthy addition to Dems’ AG race by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former state rep and state senator Warren Tolman, whose bid for state attorney general has the backing of four former AG’s, has always said he was taking candidate Maura Healey seriously, and well he should. While Tolman, who previously ran…
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The ongoing US District Court corruption trial of the former leaders of the state’s Department of Probation is getting some attention here in Lowell, partly because the case grew out of a Globe Spotlight expose so that newspaper is covering the trial extensively, and partly because several current and former…
Read More »Architect Patrick Tighe’s Work in NYT
Architect Patrick Tighe is based in Southern California these days, but he has deep Lowell roots. Today’s NYTimes’s Home section features photographs and an article about a house in Los Angeles designed by Patrick. Montee Karp and her husband Dr. Harvey Karp hired Patrick to transform their ocean-facing house. She…
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Read More »May 22, 1856 ~ Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner Attacked in the US Senate
From the Blog Achives ~ History, Politics Charles Sumner of Massachusetts Attacked in the U. S. Senate ~ May 22, 1856 May 22, 2013 Marie Leave a comment Edit MassMoments reminds us that on this day May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was viciously attacked on the floor…
Read More »American Textile History Museum is Much More than Meets the Eye
Judith Durant and Nancy Pitkin sent this story about their recent visit to the American Textile History Museum at 491 Dutton Street in Lowell: A treasure trove of historic literature is preserved and catalogued in the Osborne Library of the American Textile History Museum. On Tuesday, May 20, we attended…
Read More »On the Wall ~ Lowell’s Stoklosa School
I was taken by this “flag” and its mate on either side of the stage at Lowell’s Stoklosa School… hands and faces… an interesting backdrop to the celebration of Lowell school volunteers.
Read More »Little Free Library
Little Free Library is an organization that promotes the sharing of books by small neighborhood repositories maintained by individuals in the community. I’d read about the practice and a short time ago spotted the above installation off Mass Ave in Cambridge. I chose to post the photo on Facebook yesterday…
Read More »Perkins Flag restoration fundraiser on Saturday
This coming Saturday, May 24, 2014 from 4pm until 6pm, the Greater Lowell Veterans Council will hold a Ham & Bean Supper at the Centralville Social Club, 364 West 6th Street in Lowell, to raise funds for the restoration of the recently discovered Solon Perkins Civil War battle flag (shown…
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