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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When my husband and I visited the Terezin [also known as Theresienstadt] concentration camp outside of Prague in 1990, we could only begin to imagine the horrors the Nazis visited upon the political prisoners and Jews housed there. The barracks where human beings…
Read More »The biggest development this week will come as a surprise to most: it’s the launching of a new blog in the city. Learning Lowell is written by two young people, Chris and Aurora, who recently moved to Lowell. They are making a determined and enthusiastic effort to learn Lowell’s history,…
Read More »A reader brought to my attention a survey that’s just been launched on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation website. The DOT explanation of the survey is MassDOT Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Richard A. Davey today announced release of the MassDOT Highway Division User Satisfaction Survey. The online survey seeks…
Read More »Nancy Greene, a Lowellian who lived elsewhere but who recently moved back to the city, contributes another essay, this one about an event for women candidates that was held last weekend at the 119 Gallery. Here’s Nancy’s report: Last Saturday, October 19th, I attended Stacie Hargis’ Meet-Up at the 119…
Read More »Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney represents the 6th Congressional District. In the recent redistricting based on the 2010 Census, the towns of Tewksbury and Billerica and part of a precinct in Andover were moved from Niki Tsongas’ old 5th District – now the 3rd District. Tierney has a reputation for being very accessible…
Read More »From WIKIPEDIA: The Lowell Offering was a monthly periodical collected contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female textile workers (young women [age 15-35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American industrial revolution. It began in 1840 and lasted until 1845. The Offering was initially organized in 1840 by the Reverend Abel…
Read More »But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. Author Neil Gaiman recently gave a talk…
Read More »And the winner is . . . the Julian Lenzi Hospitality Group Inc. which is a combination of Lenzi’s Catering and RTJ Concessions, Inc. A selection committee of city officials and auditorium trustees has made the selection and the parties have agreed to a 3 year contract which provides, among…
Read More »Here are real estate sales in Lowell for the past week. For several months now there’s been a clearly discernible trend of most sales following into one of three loosely defined categories. First are sales of properties that have been owned by the same person or family for several decades.…
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