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To support communal feelings, a nation must seek to preserve certain cherished institutions as well as engage in creative innovation; it must value collective responsibility as well as individual incentive; it must espouse goals over and above those of economic self-aggrandizement. If a commitment to the ends of economic individualism…
Read More »F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture & Dinner Discussion, April 7, 5.30 pm, reception; 6.30 pm, dinner & lecture. Join keynote speaker Roger Cressey, a graduate of UMass Lowell, whose vast knowledge of security and counterterrorism has led him from the halls of UMass Lowell to the White House, for a cocktail…
Read More »The following message was sent to colleagues in the National Park Service by Michael Reynolds, Deputy Regional Director, National Park Service-Northeast Region in Philadelphia, Penn. As soon as more details about funeral arrangements are announced, we will share them on this blog. Sandy’s many friends in Lowell are saddened by her…
Read More »Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore, an 1861 engraving of the Baltimore riot. Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr., the Middlesex North Register of Deeds and a former President of the Lowell Historical Society, will present a two…
Read More »Today’s selection from the Lowell High Photo Blog – a part of a police motorcycle many of us don’t normally notice
Read More »New trolley signals are being installed at the corner of Market and Dutton Streets in Lowell by the Park Service. This video explains the work nicely. This video was originally posted by philtheranger New Trolley crossing signage in downtown Lowell, MA. Safety motor vehicles, pedestrians and electric trolleys
Read More »I’ll bet there are a number of faces you’ll recognize in this video taken at the Discover Lowell Kick-Off Event held by the Cultural Organization of Lowell. This video was originally posted by COOLinLowell The Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) kicks off its 2011 Discover Lowell Event Series at the…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that – Jack Kerouac noted in his diary that he had written “2500 words today in a few hours. This may be it — freedom. And mastery! — so long denied me in my long mournful years of work . . . Not that it’s easier, it’s…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters sent the following essay: I was just thinking of some of the things we should be remembering, and they may pass us in the wind. Remember the smell and taste of Educator Cookies? I have a friend who remembers going to the area where they dumped…
Read More »Lucy Larcom On the second floor of the National Park Service’s Boott Cotton Mills Museum, the history exhibition opens with a quote from the writings of Lucy Larcom—poet, memoirist, and editor. The quote captures her sense of the burgeoning industrial city when she was a girl in Lowell in the…
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