Interesting Facts About Lowell’s School System over the Past Century
I thought I would record some interesting facts about Lowell’s unique educational system. I am privy to some interesting facts about the system due to my review of items of interest in the period from...
View ArticleThe Real Start of Lowell High School
For my entire life, the starting year for Lowell High School has been 1831. Even the cup I use for my coffee has the year showing the start of the high school as being 1831. While doing research for...
View ArticleSteam Engines and Other Facts
Back about 1957, when I was three years of age, I was visiting my grandfather and grandmother in Barnum, Iowa next to the tracks for the Rock Island Railroad line. One day I heard an awful noise...
View ArticleI Am Tired of the President at This Time
I have had it with Donald Trump. Charlottesville was my final spot. “The many…” outdistanced the few. Pence got it right the next day when he said that the United States was too grand for neo-Nazis,...
View ArticleCawley Site Makes No Cents
I spent twelve years working as an auditor and accountant. I took accounting courses at UMASS-Lowell, as well as Suffolk University. I do not talk about it because I loved teaching, but did not care...
View ArticleThe Advent of Lowell’s High School in 1834
Meeting on 3/10/1834 Present: Theodore Edson, Pastor and School Committee President Messr’s. Barnaby, Graves, Merrill, Case, Haven and Austin The School Committee voted for Mr. James M. Graves as...
View ArticleCawley Site Makes No Cents
Cawley Site Makes No Cents I spent twelve years working as an auditor and accountant. I took accounting courses at UMASS-Lowell, as well as Suffolk University. I do not talk about it because I...
View ArticleInteresting Historical Educational Facts – Lowell, Massachusetts
I found these historical facts among some of my papers on my desk. You do not want to go searching on my desk. Heaven knows what will emanate from the stacks of papers. In an early carnival, in...
View ArticleReporting Versus Reviewing
I like to say that CityLife does not just report the news, it also makes the news. As an example, I use George Anthes’ statement that we need a City Architect, while I agree with him. But, I often...
View ArticleAndrew Jackson’s Battle Against the Native Americans
Hymn Before Action (by: Rudyard Kipling) The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath;...
View ArticleA Victorian Christmas
A number of years ago, one of my student’s fathers bought a wealth of photographs from the 1800’s. When we reviewed them, we found pictures from a Victorian Christmas at an English home. We also...
View ArticleThe Snowstorm of the New Year – 2018
I am a bit too busy. Three television shows yesterday, and an aborted radio slot tonight. Thank you, Sam Poulten. Two days ago, the Lowell City Council and the Lowell School Committee held their...
View ArticleCholera Again and other Government Inefficiencies
In 1892 the Lowell Sun newspaper discussed the cholera problem. They mistakenly thought that cholera was a virus, not a bacterial infection. They reported that there were cases of cholera in the...
View ArticleKeynesian Economics and Republicanism
I had a conversation with a Congressional candidate and I brought up Keynesian Economics and Keynes’ book, entitled “How to Pay for the War.” The entire gist of Keynes’ book is that it is alright for...
View ArticleTeddy Roosevelt versus Donald J. Trump
I am a member of Lowell, Massachusetts Sustainability Council which is designed to promote and augment the effort to save the planet by agreeing that Climate Change is a real phenomenon and it can...
View ArticlePresidential Timber and a Few Words on Elephants and Donald Trump
I have the good luck of being able to sit with some remarkable men every morning, or most mornings in the week. They communicate easily, see things not my way, but in a way that they are comfortable...
View ArticleThe World’s Best Philosophers and Other Mundane Items
I constantly tell my friends and readers, of which I have 432,000 responders, that my favorite quotes come from four or five sources. These are: Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain The Bible Abraham Lincoln...
View ArticleThe Lowell School System – 1870 to 1899
It must be observed that the Lowell school system was at its best during this time period. Changes were being handled with an adroit hand. City fathers were going on a building program, building the...
View ArticleTalent Scout or Something Else?
After all of the commotion on the topic, I have to say that I was thinking about Donald Trump’s problems with Stormy Daniels as I was shaving a couple of days ago. I believe my most reasonable...
View ArticleWriting Is A Major Acheivement
I decided that I needed to write a bit about some aspect of my observations and life in order to prove that I am still am around. So, this is it. I was slated for a long-awaited trip to Iowa...
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