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Wild Turkeys in Wilmington
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 »The face on the facade of the Pollard Library
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 »Earth Day Coming Up
March 28, 2011
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PaulM
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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 »UMass Lowell Robotics Lab
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 »The Wild Bull of the Pampas
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 »Boott Dam Gatehouse
Tony Sampas shares some photos of the Boott Dam Gatehouse
Read More »“Lowell in the Civil War” Exhibit Opens April 18, 2011
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…
Read More »Schumacher’s ‘Small Is Beautiful’ Behind UK’s ‘Austerity?’
The Guardian in the UK today has an in-depth article about the way the ideas in “Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered” by economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher influence the thinking and policies of Prime Minister David Cameron of England and some of his Conservative Party colleagues. I…
Read More »Reminder for Tomorrow March 27th: LHS Civil War Program at NPS Visitors’ Center
The Lowell Historical Society’s “Lowell and the Civil War” presentation with Dick Howe as the guest speaker is tomorrow morning at 11:30am at the Lowell National Historical Park’s Visitors’ Center at 246 Market Street. Repost: Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr.,…
Read More »‘A Part of History’ by Phil Riley
The late Phil Riley of Lowell was an English teacher and cross-country and track coach at Stoneham High School for 22 years. His wife, Johanna C. Bohan Riley, recently spoke to me about his deep affection for Lowell and literature, particularly poetry. He passed away about a year ago. I asked…
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