Lowell Walks: LGBTQ+ History in Lowell

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

Join local historian Resi Polixa and literary scholar Heather Barrett for a Lowell Walks: "LGBTQ+ History in Lowell" on Saturday June 29th, 2024, at 10am. Walk through the city and learn how the diverse layers of Lowell's LGBTQ+ community intertwine with the lives of mill workers, immigrant families, and Lowellians. Explore how the LGBTQ+ community […]

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Hilos de herencia en las fábricas de Suffolk: Textileros Colombianos en Lowell.

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

Revolución industrial, telares y ¿colombianos? ¿Sabías que la comunidad Colombia tiene una larga historia con la cuidad de Lowell? Acompáñanos los días 19 y 21 de Julio a las 2:30 en un recorrido a pie donde aprenderemos la historia de cómo han llegado tantos colombianos a la cuidad de Lowell y como ellos han convertido […]

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Hilos de herencia en las fábricas de Suffolk: Textileros Colombianos en Lowell.

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

Revolución industrial, telares y ¿colombianos? ¿Sabías que la comunidad Colombia tiene una larga historia con la cuidad de Lowell? Acompáñanos los días 19 y 21 de Julio a las 2:30 en un recorrido a pie donde aprenderemos la historia de cómo han llegado tantos colombianos a la cuidad de Lowell y como ellos han convertido […]

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Lowell Walks: Mill Girls & Boarding House Keepers

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

With the construction of a new mill city, a large labor force was needed to fill minimum wage positions being rapidly created. The boarding house system allowed mill agents sent out into the New England countryside to recruit a new workforce of young women with promises of paid work, available food, shelter, and the care […]

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Lowell Walks: Portuguese in Lowell

Portuguese American Civic League of Lowell Central Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Join researchers and archivists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Portuguese American Digital Archive, Nikki Tantum, Gray Fitzsimons, and Nicole Catarino on a walk around the Back Central neighborhood. In the late 1800s, increasing demands for cotton cloth production provided jobs and opportunity for the first Portuguese immigrants arriving in Lowell. In the decades that […]

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1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

On September 19, 2024, the Concord Museum will commence its highly anticipated fall forum series with a special discussion featuring Mary Beth Norton, renowned historian and award winning author of the landmark text 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. This exciting event marks the beginning of a series of programs hosted by the Concord Museum […]

In Conversation: Kay WalkingStick and Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto

Addison Gallery of American Art Chapel Avenue, Andover, Massachusetts, United States

Join artist Kay WalkingStick and exhibition curator Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator of the New-York Historical Society, for an engaging, informal conversation about the themes presented in Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School. The exhibition, organized by New-York Historical Society, places landscape paintings by WalkingStick in conversation with 19th-century Hudson River […]

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Lafayette Redux: Exploring the Man and the Mania

The Depot

How does it happen that Americans are still staging rituals of adulation for Lafayette, cheering him on Broadway, 190 years after his death? It's entirely fitting, as it turns out, because if anyone is suitable for immortality, it's the Marquis. Come explore why the man may well have been even greater than his myth, with […]

$10 – $15

Stone Walls of New England with Kevin Gardner

Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library, Dracut Arlington Street, Dracut, MA, United States

Kevin Gardner is a lifelong resident of Hopkinton, NH. Like a lot of independent rural Yankees, he’s been a jack of many trades, a builder, logger, writer, teacher, radio voice, even an actor and director. For more than forty years he has been a stone wall builder in a family business widely known for traditional […]

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Sounds of Labor in Lowell: Agriculture and Early Industry

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

What does the history of work in Lowell sound like, and how can you tell that story through music? Come be part of the musical composition process in the first of a series of workshops on the soundscape of Lowell through its many eras! Join contemporary composers working on new pieces specifically for Lowell National […]

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Admiral Gilday Returns to Lowell for Special Parker Lecture Series

UMass Lowell Comley-Lane Theatre Broadway Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The City of Lowell, in collaboration with the Parker Lecture Series and UMass Lowell, is proud to present Admiral Michael Gilday, a distinguished native of Lowell, on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 6:30PM, at UMass Lowell’s Comley-Lane Theatre, located at 870 Broadway St. This special event is free and open to the public, with no […]

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Admiral Gilday Returns to Lowell for Special Parker Lecture Series

UMass Lowell Comley-Lane Theatre Broadway Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The City of Lowell, in collaboration with the Parker Lecture Series and UMass Lowell, is proud to present Admiral Michael Gilday, a distinguished native of Lowell. Admiral Gilday, who served as the 32nd Chief of Naval Operations from August 22, 2019, to August 17, 2023, returns to his hometown to share insights from his remarkable […]

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