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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…
Read More »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 »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 »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…
Read More »While at the reception following the funeral for former Lowell National Historical Park Supt. Sandy Walter today, someone at my table received a message via Blackberry that Geraldine Ferraro had died. One of Sandy Walter’s first public events in Lowell was the dedication of the “Homage to Women” sculpture by Mico Kaufman…
Read More »Ready to take one of his always excellent photos of Lowell places and things yesterday morning, Tony Sampas was encouraged by these two friendly and photogenic Lowell High students to try some portraiture. Tony obliged.
Read More »My uncle Frank died this week. Francis “Pinky” Roy was my late mother’s youngest brother. He lived for years in New Hampshire after an adventurous life that took him from the Centralville neighborhood of Lowell to Europe in World War II to California, Florida, and other states. He was a meat-cutter by trade,…
Read More »It’s Friday night and I have a few minutes to catch up on the news. Here are some things that caught my eye: A year or so ago the New York Times launched a hyperlocal blog covering the Fort Green neighborhood in Brooklyn. I glance at it occasionally to see…
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