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I had to go into Boston during the day yesterday and took my preferred means of transport, the MBTA commuter rail from the Gallagher Terminal to North Station. While I’ve made that journey many times, this was the first chance I had to use the new MBTA “m Ticket” cell…
Read More »“Concord & Merrimack Confluence” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »This has nothing to do with Lowell other than that we are consumers of the pop culture like everyone else. One of my favorite films of recent years is “The International” (2009), starring Clive Owen as Interpol investigator Louis Salinger and Naomi Watts as New York City Assistant District Attorney Eleanor…
Read More »from “Society Notes” in the April 1930 issue of Lowell High School’s magazine called “Review”: “March 25th was a big day for Virginia Lord. She celebrated her eighteenth birthday with a dinner and dance party at the Nashua Country Club. The party was attended by ten couples who left Lowell…
Read More »Lawyers will give their closing arguments today in Suffolk Superior Court in the case of the Commonwealth v Tim Cahill. The former state treasurer is charged with using state funds to run TV ads intended to boost his 2010 campaign for governor. While it may have been wrong to pay…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »2012 has been quite a year remembering Charles Dickens – celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. This repost remembers Charles Dickens on his second and final American Tour: by Marie Mass Moments remind us that on this day December 2, 1867, the iconic author Charles Dickens began his Second American…
Read More »Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren visited Lowell very early-on in her campaign. Here she speaks to a packed auditorium in Lowell’s Butler School in 2011. From Roger Lau: “The campaign may be over, but Elizabeth’s real work of helping working families across Massachusetts is just getting started. Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (doesn’t it…
Read More »From the office of Lowell Mayor Patrick O. Murphy: Starting on Monday December 3, every pound of non-perishable food you bring to the Mayor’s Office (Room 50 on the 2ndFloor of City Hall) will earn you a raffle ticket entering you into a drawing for two tickets to the New…
Read More »Some of the readers of this blog know that for the past year I have been writing a book about the origin and impact of Lowell’s national park. Below is a “sidebar” piece that will appear in the “Making the Park” chapter. The manuscript is nearly complete, and Lowell National Historical Park will…
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