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February is Black History Month. Gray Fitzsimons in 2011 created a downtown walking tour of sites associated with the anti-slavery history in Lowell. Gray, a former Historian at Lowell National Historical Park, offers extensive commentary on the twelve highlighted sites. He got an assist on this project from Martha Mayo,…
Read More »After being AWOL the past two Tuesdays, I resumed note taking just in time for this marathon council meeting. There were important presentations on two new development projects in the city but most of the rest was anti-climatic. Bagshaw Mills – Recycling Site Mark Regan speaks on Bagshaw Mills (128…
Read More »The 3rd Annual New Enland Music Awards & Artist Conference will be held in Lowell on Friday Feb 21 & Sat Feb 22, 2014 with most events at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium and at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. Details about the event are available on the New…
Read More »The Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust in partnership with Mass. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm is offering a wildlife tracking experience for adventurers of all ages on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 9 to 10.30 am, at the historic Hawk Valley Farm at 520 Varnum Ave. in Pawtucketville. Learn how to identify tracks…
Read More »“Winter Abstraction” by Richard Marion (c) 2014 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »At UMass Lowell. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »After posting my Week in Review column earlier today, a reader named Joe left the following comment: About a decade ago Ed Davis wanted to bring the shot spotter gunshot detection system to Lowell. I forget the reason but it never materialized. This week I watched councilors Belanger and Rourke…
Read More »On the Lowell Memorial Auditorium website, I found this fascinating nugget in Ed Harley’s history of the building—PM “After its dedication in 1922, the Lowell Memorial Auditorium hosted a variety of conventions, civic and religious affairs, and programs of purely recreational or educational values. Liberty Hall became the home of…
Read More »Fifty years ago on February 9, 1964 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their performance is a part of music history. Two years after the Sullivan performance, the Beatles came to Massachusetts. It was 1966 and I was fifteen years old…and I loved the Beatles (as I still…
Read More »Special City Council Meeting On Monday night the city council held a special meeting for the purpose of selecting an acting city manager from the date Bernie Lynch’s resignation takes effect until a new city manager takes office. The council voted unanimously to appoint current city clerk Michael Geary to…
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