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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I listen to Cong. Michael Capuano and Niki Tsongas criticize President Obama for not taking the Libyan military action to Congress and, as an old anti-Vietnam War activist, I applaud their stance. It’s hard not to be concerned…
Read More »Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s lecture on “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War.” While the riot in Baltimore on April 19, 1861 which cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Charles Taylor and Sumner Needham and left two dozen of their comrades in the Sixth Massachusetts…
Read More »If you’re interested in Lowell’s and the Merrimack Valley’s economic future, read this piece in the NYTimes today: Allison Arrief’s “The Future of Manufacturing is Local.” If you want more of this kind of writing, get the NYT daily. When Marie posted about the food company on Phoenix Avenue producing…
Read More »OK, I agree, at this point we have all seem wild turkeys freely roaming around the Merrimack Valley, but this group filmed in an industrial park in Wilmington seems to be especially bold.
Read More »One of the photographers at the Lowell High photo blog zoomed in on this face carved in the facade of the Pollard Memorial Library.
Read More »Save the Date! 5th Annual FREE Earth Day Festival! Hosted by Lowell’s Community Gardens Greenhouse Sunday, April 17 | Noon to 4pm Rain or Shine 220 Aiken Street, Lowell Lowell National Park Maintenance Site View/download the event flyer! Free hands-on fun for the whole family! * Create arts and crafts…
Read More »The UMass Lowell Robotics Department created this video. It demonstrates a drone guided by a DREAM Controller. What’s a DREAM Controller? More explanation below. This AR Drone is flown using the Dynamically Resizing Ergonomic and Multi-touch (DREAM) controller on the Microsoft Surface. The DREAM controller spawns when one or both…
Read More »Someone who recently visited Buenos Aires sent me this photo of the burial place of the famed boxer Luis Angel Firpo in La Recoleta Cemetery. Firpo is perhaps most famous for his 1923 fight against Jack Dempsey in which he knocked Dempsey out of the ring. Dempsey returned just in…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some photos of the Boott Dam Gatehouse
Read More »Lowell and the Civil War: First Blood: Lexington of 1861 Exhibit and Reception Monday, April 18, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Mogan Cultural Center 40 French Street Lowell, Massachusetts 01852 The country had come to the conclusion that Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet were mainly employed in packing their…
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