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Congressman Ed Markey, Democrat for United States Senate, will meet supporters from Lowell and Greater Lowell at The Old Court Irish Pub and Restaurant 29 Central Street this Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 6:00 PM. Everyone is invited. Please try to attend.
Read More »Just 20 days until the release of Legendary Locals of Lowell. More information about the book and its release are available HERE on our Legendary Locals of Lowell page and below is a list of readings/book signings that have been scheduled thus far: (Pre-publication) February 23, 2013 from 12:30 pm…
Read More »History was always my favorite topic in school and my interest in the subject has only grown stronger as the years have passed. One reason I find it so fascinating is that everything has a history. I’m interested in the history of Lowell but I’m also interested in the history…
Read More »While roaming around the region this weekend I crossed paths with the talented and always entertaining Jerry Bisantz. Last weekend’s blizzard came up as a topic and Jerry mentioned some photos he had taken in the midst of the storm. He kindly agreed to share the photos with our readers.
Read More »There seems to be lots of hoo-hah about President Obama’s quick trip to Florida to play golf on this Presidents’ Day weekend. The press didn’t like its photo access being cut-off, others harrumphed that the First Lady and the girls are out West skiing and some just think this President…
Read More »Here’s a hat tip to the climate-change demonstrators in Washington, D.C., who are speaking on behalf of the planet this holiday weekend. Lowelltown is as white tonight as the monuments in the capital city. I wrote this poem after a family trip to Washington in the summer of 2004. There…
Read More »Following is an excerpt of a 1994 interview (oral history) of M. Brendan Fleming, professor emeritus of UMass Lowell and former mayor and city councilor of Lowell. The interviewer was Maryrose Lane. The full transcription of the oral history is available on the website of the UMass Lowell Center for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Barack Obama’s state-of-the-union speech was as much a liberal manifesto as I’ve heard in decades. Not surprising then that so many of the talking heads take the speech as evidence that Obama is trying to move the…
Read More »I’ve made no secret of my support of Ed Markey in the upcoming special election for the US Senate. I like his position on the major issues of the day and I don’t like the idea of adding another vote to the Republican caucus in the US Senate. But my…
Read More »Here’s Part IV of the index for my upcoming book, Legendary Locals of Lowell, which will be published on March 11, 2013. Howe, James E., 64 Howe, Richard P., 48, 67, 99 Hoyt’s German Cologne, 40 Hoyt, Eli, 40 Irish Mill Workers, 29 Irish, Cyrus, 62 Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 14…
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