Celebrate the most bountiful season at Mill City Grows' 8th Annual Harvest Festival! This FREE family-friendly event showcases our community's growers and farmers, and brings attendees closer to the harvest season through live food and gardening demos, hands-on craft activities, tours of Mill City Grows' beautiful North Common Community Garden, local food vendors, and more!Continue reading →
Please join us for a panel discussion featuring experts on each of the two new election system options appearing on the November 5th Municipal Election ballot. Moderator Lisa Handley, Ph.D. is a leading expert in voter data analysis and voting patterns, and has published widely in this area. She has advised numerous jurisdictions, both domesticallyContinue reading →
(Art by Kadir Nelson, So Together, 2016) Now that Welcoming Week and the Cultural Exchange Poltuck are behind us, we'll get back to looking at other goals for immigrant rights in Lowell. Proposed agenda: - Debrief of potluck event. - Moving forward with reviewing current status and possible future actions relating to immigrant rights -Continue reading →
Come join us for our 37th Annual Meeting to celebrate our success and elect new board members!
We have over a dozen entrepreneurs showcasing their businesses, selling products, and providing information about their organizations. African Community Center Of Lowell Arbonne International Inc. B.E.A.D.S DKim honey Products Evill Eye By Maria Flavor Noire GoodieKrunch Humble Home Care Services LLC Kenya Autism Alliance Corporation Rosebud Staffing Inc. Styled by Ola Taylor Made Communications TheContinue reading →
Lowell’s Benjamin Butler was a pivotal figure in American history. Best known as a controversial general in the American Civil War, Butler’s story has many other chapters with layers upon layers of complexity. A former governor of Massachusetts and multi-term member of Congress, Butler was one of the foremost lawyers of his time. He ownedContinue reading →
(Español abajo) Join Resist the Raids, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and bands from the Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands to show musical solidarity with our friends, family and neighbors who are locked up in Suffolk County House of Correction and the ICE immigrant detention center. Bring your drums, horns, pots and pans to breakContinue reading →
Sunday, October 13, 3:30 p - 5:30 pm, First Parish Lawn, 20 Lexington Road, Concord: Vigil: Standing up for Migrant Children Seeking Justice and Humanity. Singing, speaking, education and crafts to raise awareness on the plight of migrant children on our southern border. We hope to have first-hand accounts from medical professionals who have visitedContinue reading →
In 1892 and 1893, America was busy celebrating the 400th anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the Americas, and Lowell was teeming with parades, sermons, and lectures delivered in his honor. Two hundred years before the great industrial city of Lowell sprung up, in the 1670s, the Penacook people were actively challenging the invasionContinue reading →