Posts Tagged “Lowell National Historical Park”

R & D Hub

In all the good words spread around last Thursday at the announcement of the forthcoming UMass Lowell Innovation Hub in the 110 Canal St. building, formerly Freudenberg Nonwovens, this  statement by Mayor Rodney Elliot resonated strongly for me because it had a familiar theme: “The location of UMass Lowell’s Innovation…

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South Common, June 1944

An image from Lowell High School Field Day in June 1944 contributed by Eleanor Sullivan at a Mass. Memories Road Show event at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum of Lowell National Historical Park. The photo was published by the University Archives and Special Collections at UMass Boston, and can be…

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Lowell Conference on Industrial History

From 1980 through 1993, community partners in Lowell, including the National Park Service and University, hosted 12 gatherings of scholars in the name of the Lowell Conference on Industrial History. At least three volumes of conference proceedings were published. The regular meeting of teachers, students, historians, architects, preservation advocates, sociologists,…

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Community Assets

The machinery of justice grinds on in the dispute between the National Park Service and Enel Green Power North America over the future condition of the scenic and significant Pawtucket Dam at the falls on the Merrimack River in northern Lowell. The custodians of our country’s heritage treasures are trying…

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Kiwanis Club to Honor Peter Aucella

Don’t forget the upcoming recognition of Peter Aucella’s contributions to the city when the Kiwanis Club of Greater Lowell will present him with the Thomas G. Kelakos Community Spirit Award at 6.30 pm on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at The Mill House at Lenzi’s, 810 Merrrimack Ave.,  in Dracut. Tickets…

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Lowell Conference on Industrial History

Bob Weible was the staff historian during the formative years of Lowell National Historical Park. Today, he is State Historian of New York and Chief Curator of the New York State Museum. During his Lowell years he was also unofficial Commissioner of a men’s-and-women’s softball league composed of teams from…

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Create a Poster for Lowell Nat’l Hist. Park

In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration used the job-creating vehicle of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to employ artists in a marketing campaign called “See America,” which promoted the beauties and treasures of the national parks of America. This year, the Creative Action Network, made up of designers…

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