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From the United States Post office: The Postal Service will honor America’s oldest commissioned warship, the USS Constitution, with the issuance of 25 million Forever stamps Saturday, Aug. 18. The War of 1812 / USS Constitution stamps also commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. The first-day-of-issue ceremony will be…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Follow this link to find it. Last week I was surveyed by the Gallup organization, confirming two things: first, that the venerable public opinion survey actually talks to real people, and second, that the results of questions they…
Read More »Here are the dates for this fall’s tours of Lowell Cemetery: Friday, September 21, 2012 at 1 pm Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 10 am Friday, September 28, 2012 at 1 pm Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 10 am All of these tours begin and end at the Knapp Avenue…
Read More »There was some compelling local cable TV yesterday. At 6am on City Life hosts John McDonough and George Anthes were visited by their regular every-other-Monday guest, former City Manager and School Committee member Bill Taupier. They ended up with a second, unexpected guest: Mayor Patrick Murphy who arrived at about…
Read More »President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law – August 14, 1936. (Among those at the signing – Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor in 1933, making her the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position; Senator Robert LaFollette, a progressive Senator from Wisconsin; and Senator Robert Wagner, former Mayor of New…
Read More »The mill cities along the Merrimack River should promote themselves in clusters like the Civil War sites in the South. Why can’t our region become a multi-day destination for visitors the way heritage sites or natural attractions in other parts of the country present themselves? Manchester, New Hampshire, looks good…
Read More »Here is another one to place in the category, “there is a Lowell Connection”. I’m almost through reading a book about Buffalo Bill Cody titled The Colonel and Little Missie written by Larry McCurtry, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Lonesome Dove. In one of the later chapters McCurtry…
Read More »“Another Lowell architectural motif” by Tony Sampas
Read More »The Arts editor of the Boston Globe decided that the Revolving Museum of Lowell deserved a close look as it closed its doors this summer. Read the article here. I was on the advisory committee of the Revolving Museum, not the board of directors but an advisory committee, for several years after…
Read More »When I wrote my post about last week’s cable TV gathering of City Manager Bernie Lynch and members of the local media (new and old), I omitted this exchange: Chris Scott (Lowell Sun) to Lynch: “Would you ask for the resignation [of the members of the License Commission]?” City Manager…
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