Archive for November 24th, 2012

Hot Chocolate Competition

November 24, 2012 by DickH Posted in Current Events, Lowell 1 Comment

Downtown Lowell was alive this afternoon as hundreds of people traveled to the five establishments that were participating the this year’s Hot Chocolate Competition. At each place, you exchanged a quarter for a 4-ounce Dixie cup filled with hot chocolate. One was served plain, another gave you a choice of…

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George S. Boutwell, Radical Republican, 1865

November 24, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Current Events, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell, Politics, Election 2012 Leave a Comment

In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…

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