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Concord River Rising
Here is a view of the Concord River in Lowell as melting snow begins to have an effect. video originally posted by leftbankofthecharles
Read More »The Future of Lowell’s Superior Courthouse
Yesterday’s Lowell Sun editorial reminds us that with the new judicial center on schedule, the current superior courthouse, located at 360 Gorham Street near the end of the Lowell Connector, will eventually be vacated. The state has invested substantial amounts of money in the building over the past decade, replacing…
Read More »Manager Lynch’s Reality Check on Library Upset
City Manager Bernie Lynch weighed in at Gerry Nutter’s place on the news about disruptive and worse behavior by some members of the public in the Pollard Memorial Library. The Library is like an indoor common, open to all, which means the world walks in the door, sometimes acting in ways that…
Read More »Off Season at LeLacheur Park
Although the weather might suggest otherwise, Tony Sampas reminds us that baseball in Lowell is not far away.
Read More »This is Interesting: Uncle Dave on ‘The New Humanism’
Columnist David Brooks of the NYTimes today puts on his social psychology hat and a couple of other disciplinary caps to make an opening argument for something that he calls “The New Humanism.” He wants us to start thinking and acting differently in order to make better decisions for ourselves and…
Read More »Cozy relationships lead to Blue Cross/Blue Shield excesses by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The process for deciding and ratifying former Blue Cross/Blue Shield CEO Cleve Killingsworth’s exorbitant severance package seems to reflect what happens when movers and shakers in any sector get too comfortable with each other. We saw it on…
Read More »FemNoire: The festival of women playwrights
The folks at Image Theater sent along the following information about FemNoire: The Festival of Women Playwrights” which will be performed this coming Friday and Saturday (March 11 and 12) at the ALL Gallery, 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell: Lowell’s Image Theater proudly presents the festival for women playwrights: Femnoire… two…
Read More »Moses Greeley Parker & telephone numbers
In her post earlier today about Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone, Marie mentioned that Bell’s good friend (and telephone company investor) Dr Moses Greeley Parker is credited with being the inventor of the telephone numbers. The photo above is of Parker’s mausoleum at the Lowell Cemetery…
Read More »Romney Health Care Issue
Fox’s Chris Wallace did the interview below almost exactly one year ago (March 2010. Here he questions former Governor Mitt Romney on Massachusetts Health Care reform…considering Romney was in NH over the weekend (March 2011) and still feels the need to address health care is a sure sign the presidential…
Read More »Telephone Patent Received – the Lowell Connection
March 7, 2011
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Marie
Posted in History, Lowell, Culture, Current Events, Education, Greater Lowell
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MassMoments reminds us that on this day – March 7, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone – a device that could transmit human speech over a wire. Bell’s patents and the success of the Bell Telephone Company, which he established in 1877, made the young…
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