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This is a cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog. The Society is participating in the local celebration of Dickens’ 200th birthday and his 1842 visit tio Lowell in partnership with UMass Lowell, the Lowell National Historical Park and others. There will be a panel discussion on Dickens at the…
Read More »The Business of Valentine Cards: From Howland to Hallmark by Marie MassMoments tells us this morning that in 1849 – the first American-made Valentine cards were created and sold in Worcester, Massachusetts by Mt. Holyoke graduate Esther Howland. Modeled on the English-style Valentine, her fancy designs, embossed, cut and colored…
Read More »Over the weekend I finally saw the movie Moneyball which was based on the Michael Lewis book by the same title that is one of my all-time favorites, not because it’s a literary classic – although Lewis is an excellent and funny writer – but because it documents how statistics…
Read More »The city of Lowell seal on the Ladd and Whitney Monument. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. The day after President Obama’s State of the Union address, the front page of the Boston Globe had an interesting pair of…
Read More »This video is of particular interest to me since I worked at WLLH radio here in Lowell for seven years producing the drive time show, Morning Magazine hosted by the late Paul Sullivan. WLLH (AM) and WSSH (FM) were both owned by the same man and before the days of…
Read More »As I drove in Westford Street from Drum Hill earlier today, an orange city of Lowell dump truck rumbled past me. In its wake the street seemed to be strewn with a handful of grayish chunks of snow. Momentarily baffled, I noticed a second truck approaching and saw its bed…
Read More »Over on the “Forgotten New England” blog there’s another installment in the Fires of Lowell, Massachusetts series. This story of the Sacred Heart School fire in 1967 tears at my memory, my heartstrings and the fabric of my family history. My grandfather – Patrick J. Kirwin was a member of…
Read More »This past Friday, the Pollard Memorial Library hosted an open house to show of some new Low-Vision Stations that have been acquired for folks with limited vision. Besides the equipment on display inside, the New England Eye Institute’s Mobile Clinic was parked in front of the library where comprehensive eye…
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