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This past Saturday I served as the moderator at the Lowell Historical Society’s annual Trivia Night. My job was to ask the questions, alternating between Trivial Pursuit style interrogatories that tested general knowledge, and plenty of Lowell specific questions to test the knowledge of local history in the room. The…
Read More »In inky night we crossed New Mexico; at gray dawn it was Dalhart, Texas; in the bleak Sunday afternoon we rode through one Oklahoma flat-town after another; at nightfall it was Kansas. The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October. We arrived in St.…
Read More »My “Information for Voters” pamphlet from Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin arrived in the mail last week. Among other things, the booklet contains information about the three ballot questions that will appear on the ballot at the November 2, 2010 state election. Here’s a summary of each of the…
Read More »The Boston Herald reminds us in an AP story just added to their on-line edition, that a newly expanded version of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! awaits aficionados of Jack Kerouac and his literary world. LOWELL – The city of Lowell is set to hold an expanded version its annual festival celebrating…
Read More »Middlesex Community College celebrated its 40th anniversary Friday night. Staff and guests posted some wonderful pictures of the evening on the college’s blog. Below is a sample…but click for much more.
Read More »On November 2 Jim lane, Jerry Loew and Pat Wojtas will face off in a special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Chelmsford Selectman Sean Scanlon. A good website is an essential tool in elections today. And each of Chelmsford’s select-person candidates has adopted the tool.…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some photos of smokestacks around Lowell. Above is a view of the Saints Medical Center power plant; below is a shot of Market Street near the Market Mills complex.
Read More »Roger Brunelle, inventor of the guided tours of Kerouac’s literary sites in Lowell, will lead a 2.5 hour bus tour on Saturday, Oct. 2, starting at 8.30 am at the National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. See the sites written about in “Visions of Gerard,” “Doctor Sax,” “Maggie Cassidy,”…
Read More »NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman today writes that “structural unemployment” is a fiction accepted by certain experts as a way to explain why so many people are jobless and repeated by many others who prefer to believe that explanation rather than do something difficult to try to fix the problem. Read Krugman here, and consider getting…
Read More »The final tours of historic Lowell Cemetery for this season will be held this coming weekend. The first is on Friday, October 1 at 1 pm. The second is Saturday, October 2 at 10 am. Both tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance which is right next to Shedd Park.…
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