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…
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Today’s selection from the Lowell High Photo Blog – a part of a police motorcycle many of us don’t normally notice
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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The City of Lowell will celebrate its 175th anniversary as a city chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a gala event at City Hall and environs on Monday April 11, 2011 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The evening will feature honored speakers, musical performances and City Hall tours. More of this…
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Happy Birthday Twitter Yesterday, March 21, Twitter turned five years old, and did you know… Experts estimate that one billion tweets are sent each week? And did you know Facebook offered to buy Twitter in 2008 for $500,000 and now Twitter is worth between $8-10 billion? And members of the…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. The public can derive enormous satisfaction from taking action against public worker misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance or just plain nuisance, but that visceral satisfaction can be short-lived, whether you’re talking about ending “hack holidays” or even…
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