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The first Byzantine styled Greek Orthodox church in America Holy Trinity was designed by Lowell Architect Henry L. Rourke and was influenced by Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Completed in 1908, the exterior was refurbished in 2010-11. The scaffolding was just recently removed. (Photos and text by Tony Sampas)
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A million electric cars on the road by 2012? Utilities getting 80 percent of their fuel from clean sources by 2035? These and other clean energy goals are exciting to contemplate as part of the President’s agenda, especially…
Read More »On the roof, it’s peaceful as can be . . . James Taylor never experienced ice dams. Through the years I’ve become an expert on these frustrating winter constructions. For the uninitiated, ice dams occur when the snow on your roof melts from the bottom due to the space beneath…
Read More »Earlier this week Channel 5’s Chronicle did an entire show on Dick Eklund, Micky Ward and the movie The Fighter. Watching it reminded me that I had never seen the famous slip/knock down of Sugar Ray Leonard by Dicky Eklund..so I check it out on YouTube and found this video.…
Read More »Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is the fascinating true story of a woman known to scientists around the world as “HeLa.” She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of…
Read More »Readers of the Eagle-Tribune I’m sure weren’t surprised to see the stunning photo of an accident scene on Rte. 93 yesterday “go global.” The image of the car involved in the storm-related accident actually standing on its nose at the side of the highway – in both video and photos – taken…
Read More »The swing in this photo by Tony Sampas appears to be temporarily out of service.
Read More »Last week our “Fighter” location map was featured on the Channel 5 news segment about the Oscar nominations for the filmed-in-Lowell movie, “The Fighter.” This week, Gadling, a national travel blog, includes the map on a post titled “A Travel Guide to the 2011 Oscar Movies”. For those of you…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Last week’s referendum on South Sudan may provide a respite in the stories of one of the most savage and dehumanizing conflicts in Sub Saharan Africa, but we must not turn away from the uncomfortable news that…
Read More »Sure the snow has made it tough here in Lowell, but check this video out, shot on the other side of the Merrimack Valley (Methuen) and posted on YouTube by The Eagle Tribune.
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