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There will be a free tour of St Patrick’s Cemetery this Saturday (June 8, 2013) at 10am beginning from the cemetery office on Gorham Street. Here’s what Dave McKean, on the “Lowell Irish” blog, writes about the tour: In the not too distant past Gorham Street was lined with monument…
Read More »Some Lowell photos from Tony Sampas. Canal Street (above) and the Pollard Memorial Library colonade (below)
Read More »Between the UMass Lowell River Hawks skating and blasting their way into college hockey’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh this spring and now the surging Bruins, one win away from the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in three years, our region is in prime condition for a spell of…
Read More »I always try to remember major events in American history with a blog post. Today is the 69th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Below is a repeat of a post I did last year. Above and below are photos from a family visit to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Shootings, muggings, fires, crashes, sports and weather– all the stuff of local television. Then there are the Kirby Perkins A+ scholarship segments. Kirby was a Channel 5 reporter who especially loved politics and sports. The station’s “High Five” series…
Read More »Anyone wondering why the real estate market is taking so long to recover from the bursting of the bubble in 2007 should consider the price swings over the past decade. This information is from the LowellDeeds blog which shows the median sales price of deeds recorded during a given year. …
Read More »Today is the 35th anniversary of the signing of the legislation creating the Lowell National Historical Park. It was exciting and interesting to have been a part of the local efforts to make this happen. I was a member of the Board and later president of the Lowell Museum where…
Read More »Yesterday morning I was a guest on the local cable TV show, City Life, along with Marie Sweeney and Casey Crane. That will be a name familiar to anyone who lived in Lowell in the 1990s, because Casey (also known as Elenore Rinaldi) was the co-host of a morning talk…
Read More »U.S. Navy image The USS Constitution was one of the original six frigates of the United States Navy, commissioned by the Naval Act of 1794. “Old Ironsides” was the nickname given to this 18th century frigate during the War of 1812 after its naval battle with the HMS Guerriere. In 1830…
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