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They say the darndest things
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. One reason I started writing columns was to respond to things I read in the newspapers. Informed people will come to different…
Read More »Another successful season of Lowell Cemetery tours
The final tour of Lowell Cemetery for this fall occurred yesterday morning. Despite the abysmal forecast for this weekend, the 42 folks who joined us on Friday afternoon and the 30 present yesterday morning traversed the cemetery without a drop of rain interfering. For the three years that I’ve been…
Read More »The Globe, the Patrick Administration, and a Dracut “hiccup”
The Globe’s top political reporter, Glenn Johnson, who in another life covered Lowell City Hall for a local newspaper, wades into the Dracut Housing Authority controversy in this Sunday’s Globe. Johnson begins his article by citing the many benefits that Governor Patrick has garnered by assigning Lt Governor Tim Murray…
Read More »Lowell ‘Foodways’ Highlighted in Globe
Photo courtesy of Maggie Holtzberg from blog.massfolkarts.org. See also Keepers of Tradition on the blogroll to the right. Nine, count ’em, nine color photos of details from Lowell’s multi-ethnic market scene grace page one of the Globe North section of today’s Boston Sunday Globe. The article by Taryn Plumb recounts…
Read More »Trolley Tracks
“This is a detail of the trolley tracks next to the old Federal Building / Middlesex Community College” – photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »Irish Blessing, Dedication and Tour At Lowell’s St Patrick Cemetery
From the LowellIrish blog about today’s ceremonies and tour at St. Patrick’s Cemetery: Our annual tour of the St Patrick Cemetery will be on September 24 at 10 am. As has been past practice we begin with the AOH dedication of stones of forgotten Irish immigrants as part of their…
Read More »Upcoming Events @ UMass Lowell
Sunday, Sept. 25, 2 – 5 pm: UMass Lowell String Project Benefit Concert in collaboration with the Revolving Museum, Appleton Mills Atrium, 29 Jackson St. (Donations requested). Friday, Sept. 30, 6.30 pm: Celebrate sports at the 1st annual Dream of Perfect Games tribute at the UMass Lowell Inn &…
Read More »Kerouac Festival Schedule, Oct. 6 – 10; New Exhibit Opens at National Park Visitor Center
Here’s the schedule of activities for the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival, which starts on Thursday, Oct. 6, and runs through the Columbus Day holiday on Oct. 10. Note that on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 5 pm, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception to officially open the new permanent exhibit…
Read More »Francis Cabot Lowell and the Industrial Revolution
More than fifty people gathered at the Pollard Memorial Library last evening to listen to Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg speak about his biography of Francis Cabot Lowell, the man for whom our city is named. Rosenberg contends that Lowell grew up in a wealthy family as a frivolous youth not in…
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