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The first tours of Lowell Cemetery for this year will take place this weekend: Friday, May 6 at 1 pm Saturday, May 7 at 10 am The tours are free and open to the public and begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery which is off Rogers Street,…
Read More »By May 6, 1861, Washington DC was safe from immediate capture by Confederate forces. When Fort Sumter was fired upon, Washington was without any organized and reliable military force while Confederate forces began gathering across the Potomac in Alexandria and Arlington. The Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, the unit from Lowell that…
Read More »I’m curious to know how folks first learned of the death of Osama bin Laden. I saw it on Twitter at 10:31 pm in the midst of multiple tweets announcing the President’s speech. That sent me scurrying to the TV. In the following hour (the President didn’t go on until…
Read More ». “Robert Forrant and Christoph Strobel, under contract to Lowell National Historical Park, defined, researched and created an ethnographic overview of immigrant communities, past and present, in Lowell, Massachusetts. “The Big Move” features a selection of the thirty-five oral histories they compiled for the larger story. Emblematic of Lowell’s diverse population,…
Read More »From TIME magazine comes an article about the advanced thinking on urban transportation in the ultra-green city of Curitiba, Brazil, which was featured at last June’s Innovative Cities Conference in Lowell. Read the article here, and get TIME if you want more. Web photo by Carlos Cazalis/Corbis courtesy of TIME.com
Read More »From Tony Sampas: Cardinal O’Connell Parkway Makeover. There will be a layer of bricks around the edges, a fence put in and new plantings added. The trees, which were diseased, will be replaced
Read More »The New York Times yesterday reported that a company from Nevada, Righthaven LLC, has entered into an arrangement with Media News Group (the owner of the Lowell Sun and many other newspapers) whereby Righthaven scours the internet for people using copyrighted articles and photographs from Media News Group papers and,…
Read More »This is the first time I’ve seem this…looking for leads to solve an armed robbery on Shawhsheen Street, the Tewksbury Police Department posted the video below on YouTube. It shows a man robbing the Tewksbury Convenience Store . On April 29, 2011, at approximately 10:00pm, members of the Tewksbury Police…
Read More »The entry below is being corss posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A fresh Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll shows that while Americans feel really good about the demise of Osama bin Laden, few think we’re home free when it comes to the threat of terrorism. Seven in ten believe…
Read More »As suggested by a former First Lady to “Remember the Ladies” – on this day May 3, 1940 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt invited a group of Democratic women to meet with him at the White House. These woman were to be in Washington, DC to attend a meeting of the “women’s division” of…
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