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Another crosspost from Jen Myers’ “Room 50” blog~ please follow the link for more photos and information… Buried Treasure — A Tour of Lowell Cemetery by juicegirl50 She was married and bored. He was interesting. She was enchanted. He was smitten. It was July 1848 and famed poet Edgar Allan Poe was staying…
Read More »If you follow me on Twitter (@DickHowe) or if you glance at my Twitter feed in the righthand sidebar of this site, you have noticed that each afternoon I do a Tweet with that day’s real estate sales of property in Lowell (information that is freely available to anyone on…
Read More »This is a cross post photo/blog from “Room 50” about last night’s Excellence Awards for Preservation Cultural Heritage. The presentation was offered by James Ostis of the Lowell Heritage Partnership. http://room50.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/preserving-excellence/ Note: Our fellow blogger Dick Howe was one of the honorees. Fellow blogger Paul Marion – President of the Lowell Heritage…
Read More »Reminder for next GLAD Meeting Tomorrow! SATURDAY! Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday May 18, 2013 at 8:00 AM Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Please join us at this meeting of area Democrats. Marie Sweeney, GLAD Chair For more information: sweeney133@verizon.net AGENDA: The regular agenda…
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Read More »Last night’s reception at the Lowell National Park kicked off Doors Open Lowell weekend. This is a great opportunity to visit some of our city’s most unique buildings and tour them in a “behind the scenes” way that is unavailable at most times. Here’s the schedule: Friday, May 17, 2013…
Read More »Congratulations to the recipients (see image above for names) of this year’s awards for exemplary work in historic preservation and cultural heritage conservation, including this blog’s executive editor, Dick Howe Jr. Well over 100 people attended the reception and ceremony for the honorees. This event has become one of the…
Read More »Gary Snyder portrait (web photo courtesy of seapoetry.wordpress) One of my early poetry heroes was Gary Snyder, who turned 83 this month. Not only was I drawn to Snyder’s concise and precise back-country poems of the 1960s and ’70s, but I was also in tune to his thoughts about repairing…
Read More »Beautiful weather is forecast for this coming weekend, so please consider coming on a tour of Lowell Cemetery. The tours begin this Friday at 1pm and this Saturday at 10am. Both tours begin at the cemetery’s Lawrence Street entrance and last about 90 minutes. The tours are free and no…
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