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		<title>Doors Open Lowell &#8211; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 02:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downtown Lowell sure has come a long way since the early 1980&#8242;s.  My earliest memories of Downtown Lowell involve weekend visits to my grandmother, who once lived in the large apartment building at the corner of Middle and Central streets.  During those visits, we would walk up Central Street to Merrimack Street, follow Merrimack up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2850&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Construction of St. Peter&#8217;s Church &#8211; Lowell, Massachusetts, 1892</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 13:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once located on Lowell&#8216;s Gorham Street, St. Peter&#8217;s Church was founded in Lowell in 1841, ten years after the founding of St. Patrick&#8217;s, the city&#8217;s first Catholic church.  Many readers will remember the impressive edifice that once stood at 323 Gorham, across from Lowell&#8217;s courthouse building; however, this was actually the church&#8217;s third building.  St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2051&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once the Savoy Theatre, Then the Hathaway Theatre, First a Church &#8211; Lowell, Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parking lots aren&#8217;t usually very interesting.  And, as I found out this morning, it&#8217;s rather difficult to take an interesting photograph if your subject happens to be that parking lot.  And, usually, when one dives into the history of a parking lot, you find, as its predecessor, an open field, a burnt-out residence, or maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2764&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Racing along Lowell&#8217;s Pawtucket Boulevard &#8211; in 1908</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 02:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Thrown from Machine at Harpin Curve in Tyngsboro&#8217; &#8216;The bursting of one of the front tires on the Isotta car, entered in the automobile race to be held Monday over the Merrimack Valley course, came near resulting in the death of Al Poole, the driver, and Coot, the mechanician. The accident occurred about 5.15 o&#8217;clock [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2737&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Opening of the Chelmsford Mall, 1973 &#8211; Remembering Child World and Bradlees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early spring of 1973, if you were to drive west along Chelmsford&#8216;s Route 110, just beyond the Lowell city line, you wouldn&#8217;t get far before you came across a large clearing outside your driver&#8217;s side window.  Masses of steel would be shooting skyward, well back on a newly-cleared 12-acre parcel of land. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2711&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When McDonald&#8217;s First Came to Massachusetts, 1960s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although fast food restaurants seem less prevalent in our neck of the woods than in other regions of the country, it&#8217;s hard to picture a strip of suburban road, even in New England, without including a glimpse of those golden arches among the commercial landscape.  Today, McDonald&#8217;s employs 1.7 million people in more than 33,000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2686&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pollard&#8217;s Department Store &#8211; Lowell Born . . . Lowell Owned . . . Lowell Managed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late on a Thursday afternoon on June 3, 1926, every available firefighting resource raced to Pollard&#8217;s Department Store on Merrimack Street in Downtown Lowell.  All of Lowell&#8217;s fire department was joined by men and equipment sent from Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut and Lawrence in the fight to save Pollard&#8217;s from a raging fire.  Pollard&#8217;s, also known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2348&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slavery &#8211; How it Began to End in Massachusetts, 1781</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of slavery in Massachusetts might be traced to a single act, on a single day &#8211; when a white woman, the mistress of the house, angrily struck out at one of her household slaves with a hot shovel.  In her rage, the woman did not see the slave&#8217;s sister, a woman known as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2602&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;Forgotten New England&#8217; Book?</title>
		<link>http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/04/13/a-forgotten-new-england-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forgotten New England</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good evening readers &#8211; it&#8217;s been a good week at Forgotten New England.   The site has hit 150 followers and has been experiencing some of its heaviest traffic ever. And &#8211; an editor from a reputable publishing house happened upon this blog last week and asked if I&#8217;d be interested in writing a book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2577&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if . . . the Titanic hadn&#8217;t sunk 100 years ago?</title>
		<link>http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/04/12/what-if-the-titanic-hadnt-sunk-100-years-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forgotten New England</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading newspapers from the morning after the Titanic sank is almost like reading the first page of an alternate history novel. The first few words are familiar: The next are shocking: The Lowell Sun, the Boston Evening Transcript, and the Lewiston Evening Journal all reported similar headlines in their April 15, 1912 editions. Just imagine, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottennewengland.com&#038;blog=26653115&#038;post=2534&#038;subd=forgottennewengland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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