Lowell Walks

10/23/2023

This past weekend I enjoyed a Lowell Walk through Little Canada with our guides Dick Howe, Charlie Garguilo, Bob Forrant and Yun-Ju Choi. We started at the Coalition for a Better Acre offices and strolled through the Moody Street area and several side streets that made up the Little Canada neighborh...

10/21/2023

Thanks to everyone who attended this morning's Legends of Little Canada Walking Tour . The rain held off and we had a great time. Charlie Gargiulo signed copies of his book afterwards.

06/19/2020

Today is Juneteenth, commemorating June 19, 1865, when it was announced in Galveston, Texas that enslaved people would no longer be legally held in bo***ge. This announcement came nearly three years after the Emancipation Proclamation was first decreed on September 22, 1862.

While we are unable to celebrate this holiday as we had originally planned, with a walk celebrating Juneteenth through exploring the abolition and antislavery movements in Lowell, we do want to celebrate this momentous day and point you towards a local celebration that our walk leader, Jacquelynn Coles of DIY Lowell, is planning tomorrow at St. Anne's Episcopal Church. Celebrate this historic day with community members and enjoy a social distancing walk outside!

In addition, our friends at the Free Soil Arts Collective (one of our walk leaders we had planned for July) will be holding an artist talk tomorrow at 12 noon with textile artist Karen Hampton of Western Avenue Studios & Lofts to celebrate Juneteenth. More info on the event here: Weaving Stories of the Enslaved: Conversation with Karen Hampton .

03/29/2020

Today's Virtual Lowell Walks: The South Common

The public health-related postponement of recent Lowell Walks led me to post a Virtual Tour of the Acre two weeks ago. Last week, I wrote about the courthouses of Lowell that served as a virtual tour. Today, we visit the South Common. I’ve broken this tour into two parts and…

03/15/2020

Here's a virtual Lowell Walk of the Acre neighborhood to replace yesterday's postponed event

In response to the public health-related cancellation of yesterday’s Lowell Walk on the Irish Acre, here is a virtual tour of a portion of that neighborhood. The text is based on the script I used to lead this tour in April 2016. The tour Dave McKean would have given yesterday…

03/12/2020

Hey folks, we've decided to CANCEL this Saturday's Irish Acre Lowell Walk for obvious reasons. We'll let you know about future walks as they draw near.

03/08/2020

Resi Polixa, Allison Horrocks, Anne Mulvey, Sheri Denk & Gloria Polites led the inaugural Lowell Walk of 2020.

02/23/2020

Here's the full schedule of Lowell Walks for 2020

Lowell Walks is back in 2020, bigger and better than ever. This year, we’ve partnered with Lowell National Historical Park to offer 25 different Saturday morning walks. Here they are: March 7 at 10am: Women’s Activism in Lowell Walk with Resi Polixa, Allison Horrocks, Anne Mulvey, and Sheri Denk...