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A Region of Lasting Importance

September 3, 2015 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

For anyone who needs a reminder about the distinctive region around us, just check the new issue of the New Yorker magazine with two major articles about historical happenings and people from our general area. Our local history keeps making news. Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Shiff writes about “The Witches of Salem:…

‘America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence’

July 4, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Education, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

On August 31, 1837, an important man from the Greater Merrimack River Valley spoke to members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass. His address that day is considered by some to be ‘America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.’ Here is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The American…