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In her 1982 book, “Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell,” historian Mary Blewett has a chapter about policies in the city of Lowell towards the poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here is part of what she wrote: Poverty was regarded, in almost all cases,…
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Read More »The following letter was sent to the Lowell City Council, City Manager, Conservation Commission, Planning Board, and Lowell Historic Board–PM On behalf of the executive committee of the Lowell Heritage Partnership, I am writing to City of Lowell officials to request that they make every effort to protect a unique…
Read More »In yesterday’s Lowell Week in Review blog post I wrote this about the Jerathmell Bowers House: Constructed in 1673 at what is now the corner of Westford and Wood Streets in Lowell, the Jerathmell Bowers House is said to be the oldest structure in the city. There has been a…
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Read More »Save the date: The First Annual Lowell Social Media Conference Saturday, December 7, 2013 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Lowell Telecommunications Corp 246 Market St, Lowell Topics include: • Taking the temperature of Lowell’s blogosphere • Best practices for Tweets & short form video • Social media in the…
Read More »I found this interesting video of a parade in Dracut on YouTube. It was originally posted by MrHooper024
Read More »Public Safety – I still believe that public safety was the decisive issue in this year’s city council election. Three big public safety related things happened this week. First, City Manager Lynch appointed Bill Taylor to be the new Superintendent of the Lowell Police Department. Jen Myers on the Room…
Read More »We need beauty. We need it badly. On a day when we grappled with our grief over the enduring evil of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on a day when we learned more from the media about the heinous attack on a young teacher, Colleen Ritzer of Danvers,…
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