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Alternate captions: “So you think you have a tough job.” Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »The Pawtucket Canal
The following is the first of a series of posts about the history of the canals of Lowell. Throughout the 18th century, world demand for lumber from the upper Merrimack River continued to grow. By the end of the American Revolution, lumbermen would routinely cut down trees along the river…
Read More »International Institute: Boston, Lowell, Manchester N.H.
October 13, 2011
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In light of the news about One Lowell, it may be helpful to remind ourselves about the International Institute, which has been in Lowell for decades. The missions are not the same, but serving newcomers to the city, region, and country is the main purpose. Here’s the joint website. There is…
Read More »Bill Clinton on the “Good” in OWS: HuffPo
October 13, 2011
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From huffingtonpost.com, here’s former President Bill Clinton commenting on the Occupy Wall Street protests around the country.
Read More »Bread and Roses Centennial Concert on October 23
The Bread & Roses Centennial Committee will host a Benefit Concert on Sunday October 23, 2011 4:00 pm Temple Emanuel, Andover. Performing at the concert will be A Besere Velt: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Boston Workmen’s Circle which will be performing The Cloth From Which We Are Cut: A…
Read More »MassMoments: Life-saving Iron Lung Combats Polio Paralysis.
Mass Moments reminds us today of the first use of the so-called “iron lung” developed by Harvard’s Dr. Philip Drinker. He was responding to a terrifying new disease that was causing sudden paralysis. Doctors called it poliomyelitis — or polio. First used on this day October 12, 1928 at Children’s Hospital…
Read More »Hunter’s Moon over Market Street
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Read More »Occupy Boston: Protest and Change
The Occupy Boston protest has been much in the news lately. The map above shows the portion of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in which most of the action has taken place. To the lower left is South Station; the darker gray shape across Summer Street is the Federal Reserve…
Read More »The Globe documents the collapse of the Red Sox
Why would anyone in New England watch soap operas when we have the Boston Red Sox? The Globe’s Bob Hohler gives us the first of what I expect to be many accounts of the collapse of the 2011 Red Sox in this front-page story. Among the highlights, or lowlights more…
Read More »WHS @ Columbus Day Parade
Wilmington High School Band marches in Boston’s Columbus Day Parade.
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