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“In early 1979, after living under the murderous Pol Pot regime for nearly four years, my family and I returned to our destroyed village, finding nothing but the ashes of our home and fallow fields where there had once been prosperous rice paddies. Life seemed hopeless, yet we were determined…
Read More »The discovery of a hidden historical gem seems to spark the interest of our readers. And then there’s the unfolding of the story behind the find. The collections of the Lowell Historical Society – an institution whose roots go back to 1868 – are replete with treasures – some just need a current unearthing. LHS…
Read More »Welcome to a new literary contributor to the blog, writer Mark Reimer, who is on the staff at UMass Lowell. —PM . Interior Humbaba’s sixth aura was given to the forests; I read this on the train and note contrails in the sky marking off our path to the…
Read More »There is an historical record of the Blizzard of 1978. Mass Moments does a good job recalling the wintry chaos of the storm and its aftermath in the Commonwealth. http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=45. But we who weathered that storm have our own personal recollections and family stories. I remember the Blizzard…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. We believe in informed consent. What about informed dissent? The New Hampshire Union Leader recently reported that Granite State legislators will consider a proposal to allow voters unhappy with their choice of candidates to mark their ballots for…
Read More »As dormitory residents at Providence College, none of us paid much attention to weather forecasts. Since the classrooms, the gym and the cafeteria were only a few yards away, snow had never been a problem. Until February of 1978, that is. The great Blizzard of ’78 began on February 5,…
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Read More »We’ve set the dates for the Spring 2014 tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. They are as follows: Friday May 9, 2014 at 1 pm Saturday May 10, 2014 at 10 am Friday May 16, 2014 at 1 pm Saturday May 17, 2014 at 10 am These tours all begin inside…
Read More »Rev. Lucien Sawyer, O.M.I., will be signing copies of St. Jean Baptiste Parish and the Franco Americans of Lowell, Mass. at St. Joseph the Worker Shrine on Lee Street this Saturday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. Rev. Sawyer translated into English the original French text by Father Richard Santerre. Rev.…
Read More »From the moment I first heard of the concept of a “maker space” I was intrigued and thought it would be a perfect fit for Lowell. One of the basic pillars of the city’s prominence in 19th century America was the propensity of its citizens to excel in the mechanical…
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