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As Curator Ryan Owen delves more into the Lowell Historical Society’s old and diverse collection, he will be reporting about the oddities and curiosities that abound. His most recent find has us remembering a Lowellian and former Mayor and Lowell City Councilor. This is a cross-post from the LHS blog…
Read More »Bob Weible was the staff historian during the formative years of Lowell National Historical Park. Today, he is State Historian of New York and Chief Curator of the New York State Museum. During his Lowell years he was also unofficial Commissioner of a men’s-and-women’s softball league composed of teams from…
Read More »In response to Marjorie’s grim assessment of the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I went to the rh.com archives for this post I wrote in 2010 titled “Who Gets Hurt?” There’s no way to add up all the pain out there—and it rolls on day to day in…
Read More »Over the past year or so I have been wondering if I could actually “cut the cord”…the cable TV cord that is. And I’m finding there is plenty of very good /great programing available “off the cord”. Case in point…I just finished watching the entire three seasons of The Borgias…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recently, Taliban insurgents overran an Afghan National Army base killing 21 soldiers as they slept. It was said to be the worst single blow to government forces since 2010. Corruption remains rampant in Afghanistan, fueled by the inflow of…
Read More »Mr. Nason Skating on the Merrimack . In March of the year we were in kindergarten, Mr. Nason told us how on one cold night he skated from Lowell to beyond Manchester where we knew the river vanished with a sigh and the moon’s breath was frozen to the ground,…
Read More »Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice…
Read More »Every morning as I prepare my Facebook weather comments, I open my front door, look around and get a feel for the conditions in my immediate neighborhood. This morning I had a clear view of the white wood clapboarded Baptist Church on the corner at Andover Street at the top of…
Read More »The Lowell Heritage Partnership and the Lowell National Historical Park are seeking nominations from the community of individuals or organizations so that they may be acknowledged for their contributions in the areas of historic preservation and cultural heritage. The award recipients will be honored at the Annual Lowell Preservation and Cultural heritage Awards Reception…
Read More »“One fine morning, not long ago, I strolled down the Merrimac, on the Tewksbury shore. I know of no walk in the vicinity of Lowell so inviting as that along the margin of the river for nearly a mile from the village of Belvidere. The path winds, green and flower-skirted,…
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