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Our friends at the Lowell City Manager’s blog remind us that this is an important week in celebration of National Community Development: City of Lowell Celebrates National Community Development Week April 10, 2012 by Office of the City Manager The City of Lowell will join communities across the country to celebrate National…
Read More »When studying history, some years seem more interesting than others. As comedian Robin Williams famously said, “If you remember the 1970s, you weren’t there.” One year deserving of additional scrutiny may be 1912. Just in the month of April you had the sinking of the Titanic and the opening of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Co-leader Couples turns back clock at Augusta” read Saturday’s Boston Globe sports section sub-headline, hailing the return to prominence of Fred Couples in the Masters golf tournament. If he wins, the good looking fellow could become the oldest…
Read More »For more than a century, historians have used 618,000 as the approximate number of men who died in the American Civil War. That number, it turns out, may have significantly underestimated the number of casualties. As reported in the Science section of last Tuesday’s New York Times, a demographic historian…
Read More »The Easter Bunny delivered three dark chocolate butter cream eggs to my basket overnight. In doing so, he – why we assume the Easter Bunny is male is another matter – sought to teach a lesson in comparison shopping. The three eggs appeared identical. Each one weighed 4 ounces, contained…
Read More »Academy of Notre Dame, Tyngsboro ~ Class of 1960 Today April 8 is the Feast Day of St. Julie Billiart – a French religious leader who founded and served as the first Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. During my years at the Academy…
Read More »Dudley L. Page (Courtesy: Lowell Sun – 8/11/1934) from “Forgotten New England” Don’t miss the latest entry in the “Forgotten New England” diary of things past in New England – but more importantly with today’s post – in our Lowell Massachusetts. The remembrance of Dudley Page evokes memories and stories of a post-Civil…
Read More »A photo for Easter from Tony Sampas
Read More »John Prendergast meeting in South Sudan during the Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011 with President Jimmy Carter, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and George Clooney (web photo courtesy of wikipedia.com) John Prendergast of the Enough Project is the 2012 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. He has two…
Read More »In this week’s Local History article on the Howl in Lowell website, I write about the Three-Fifths Compromise in the US Constitution, the section of that document that tacitly acknowledged the existence of slavery without ever mentioning that word. While standing firm in opposition to slavery in 1787 may have…
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