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Prof. Bob Forrant chairs the planning committee for the Bread & Roses Centennial Project in Lawrence. He sent this information about the upcoming planning meeting on January 15. “One hundred years ago this very week, thousands of workers in Lawrence had no idea that within just a few days they would engage…
Read More »Pictures of this morning’s solar eclipse from various parts of the world, taken by Citizen Journalists and brought to us by the BBC.
Read More »Tony Sampas returns with some timely images of Pawtucket Falls
Read More »Last week Dick posted a Google Map mashup of the locations in Lowell used in the movie The Fighter. Another depiction of some movie locations can be seen in this YouTube video originally posted by patmc1nerney .
Read More »Jim Peters has sparked an interesting discussion with his essay on the Native American History of Lowell. Above is the statue of Passaconaway now located in the Edson Cemetery that Paul suggests should be moved closer to Pawtucket Falls. Below is another interactive map, this one showing various monuments, buildings,…
Read More »Greg at The New Englander posted pictures from yesterday’s “peace walk” and remembrance of victims on Grand Street in the Lower Highlands. See his photos here. I don’t have any information about contributions or donations in memory of Corinna Oeur. If one of our readers has information, please share it in…
Read More »The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974. Something for everyone in Lowell to keep in mind as the struggle to save the city continues. Seeing the decaying theaters and churches it makes you think…
Read More »Every year Verizon delivers about forty of fifty telephone books to the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds where I work. Sixteen years ago when I first started working at the courthouse these books were gobbled up by both court and registry employees the day they arrived. Now they sit in…
Read More »Paul Hudon, author of “An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack: The Valley and its Peoples“, has some observations on the state of national politics as we enter 2011: You have to wonder if ‘the happy warrior’ is trying to tell us something. Hubert Horatio Humphrey was laid to rest…
Read More »Lowell is best known for its role in the Industrial Revolution, but the first English settlers arrived at the confluence of the Merrimack and the Concord Rivers in the mid-1600s. They found the area fully inhabited by indigenous people who had lived here for centuries. In the following essay, Jim…
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