Tag: South Lowell

Lowell’s Riverside School: The Lowell Parents’ Strike – 1971

.Reading time 11 minutes.

Things have to get fairly dire before your entire student body, well, 97% of your student body, boycotts your school due to “dangerous conditions”.  But, that’s precisely what happened at Lowell’s Riverside School on a Monday morning in late March, 1971.  Of the school’s 205 students in Grades K through 5, just six showed up […]

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The First Years of Sacred Heart Parish: Lowell, Massachusetts, 1880’s

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Moore, Andrews, Whipple, Meadowcroft:  If you spent a good span of your childhood years in Lowell, Massachusetts attending school or church at Sacred Heart, all of these names will be familiar to you.  The streets closest to Sacred Heart carry those names, which date back to the decades before Sacred Heart’s founding when the area […]

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