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Book signing on April 6
On Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11:00 A.M., the Lowell Historical Society will host a book signing event for Legendary Locals of Lowell, the new book I co-wrote with Mike Rosenberg. The event will take place at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation which is at 246 Market Street. The entrance to LTC…
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[youtube]w918Eh3fij0[/youtube] I finally got to see the movie Argo, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for best film. The movie is based on a little-known success in the otherwise disastrous 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran by Iranian militants. Six Americans slipped out of the embassy while it…
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Happy Easter!
from ‘Easter’ by Galway Kinnell
. Easter . To get to church you have to cross the river, First breadwinner for the town, its wide Mud-colored currents cleansing forever The swill-making villages at its side. The disinfected voice of the minister For a moment is one of the clues, But he is talking of nothing…
Read More »‘East Merrimack St. Bridge’ by Richard Marion
“East Merrimack Street Bridge” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This image was created in response to the visionary urban beautification plan called “Lowell: The Flowering City,” published in the mid-1990s. Readers may have seen the logo of the project on a large sign at the…
Read More »On March 29, 1880 ~ When the Women of Concord Cast Their Votes “…no earthquake shook the town.”
In Massachusetts suffrage for woman began with voting for school committee. Today Mass Moment reminds us that author Lousia May Alcott of Concord, Massachusetts was the first woman to register to vote in that town. Alcott herself held meetings teaching the women of Concord how to vote when the time…
Read More »All hail Menino by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it our too. Congratulations to Boston’s longest serving mayor. In the 1970′s, as a young aide to state Senator Joe Timilty, he told a few Beacon Hill colleagues his goal was to be mayor of Boston. They…
Read More »UMass Lowell South Campus Parking Garage
Photos and text by Tony Sampas: From the UMass Lowell Capital Improvement webpage: “The South Campus garage will provide parking spaces for 762 cars on South Campus. Tucked between Mahoney Hall and Riverview Parking Lot, the garage will be conveniently located to all South Campus facilities. The six-and-one-half level open-parking…
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