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This coming Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags, I will give a talk on Lowell in the Civil War. The talk will focus on the lives of a number of individuals such as Timothy Crowley (shown above) who are representative of…
Read More »The Globe has a story by Mark Arsenault speculating that the First Congressional District, which covers close to one-third of the entire geographic area of the Commonwealth and stretches from the New York border to nearby Pepperell and Townsend is the most likely candidate for dismemberment in this year’s Congressional…
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Read More »Just a reminder…the Lowell Film Festival is almost Here!
Read More »While women were preferred by customers hearing that important question “Number please?” – the working conditions and wage for these women in the emerging communication business was far from preferential. With rules and standards more rigid than those for their sisters at the loom in the 1830s, the New England telephone operators…
Read More »Yesterday I returned from a long weekend in Baltimore for that city’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Pratt Street Riot, the April 19, 1861 confrontation that cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor. The centerpiece of the Baltimore celebration was a parade…
Read More »Monday being the stand-in observance for Patriots Day (April 19), and since the day was sunny even if windy, my wife and I took a walk through the Back Central neighborhood. We were pulled along for the first half by our enthusiastic Boston Terrier who could not have more enjoyed the field…
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Read More »paul hudon sent along the following essay: Dear Mr. Antoine Furtive, We here at your neighborhood bank notice that your last three mandatory credit vouchers are yet unclaimed. MCVs are the result of fours years of study by There’s Blood Yet to Be Had from This Stone Foundation. Introduced just…
Read More »Yesterday I took a ride to Lexington, MA. I arrived shortly before the annual Patriot’s Day Parade and several hours after the re-enactment of the famous battle that took place on the Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, a battle recognized as the start of the American Revolution. In the…
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