Small Steps, Big Changes

Join SLS Fitness and Dragonfly Cafe for a seminar on the most current research on fat loss and metabolism with a healthy food cooking demo from Dragonfly Cafe as part of the Lowell City of Learning Series! RSVP Here Location: Dragonfly Cafe, 145 Thorndike Street, Lowell, MA Dragonfly Cafe, SLS Fitness, Lowell City of Learning, […]

Lowell Walks: LGBTQ+ History in Lowell

Lowell National Historic Park Visitor Center 246 Market St, Lowell, MA 01852, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Join local historian Resi Polixa and literary scholar Heather Barrett for a Lowell Walks: “LGBTQ+ History in Lowell” on Saturday June 29th, 2024, at 10am. Walk through the city and learn how the diverse layers of Lowell’s LGBTQ+ community intertwine with the lives of mill workers, immigrant families, and Lowellians. Explore how the LGBTQ+ community […]

Composting 101 with Bootstrap Compost and Mill City Grows

Pollard Memorial Library 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA 01852, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Join Mill City Grows for our next Community Gardens Workshop with special guest presenter, Bootstrap Compost! Come learn all you need to know about basic composting at home, the benefits of composting your food scraps, how to get started, and what you can expect from the process. We’ll even learn more about Vermicomposting (using earthworms […]

Quadrilles and Contra Dances at East End Social Club Presented by Lowell’s Franco-American Day Committee

Looking for a no-cost family activity your kids might enjoy? Something new to them but very familiar to French-Canadian families and elders of yesteryear? An opportunity to dance or socialize the evening away with friends, neighbors, newcomers, or old acquaintances the way French-Canadians often did before electronic devices arrived? You don’t need experience, and you […]

Suffolk Mill Tour

Boott Cotton Mills Museum 115 John St, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The Suffolk Mill Tour operates every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM with the exception of 7/27 and 7/28. Discover the diversity and variety of Lowell’s stories. Explore how numerous factors have shaped both the city’s past and its present. Tour combines a short trip through the historic city […]

Pawtucket Canal Boat Tour

Lowell National Historic Park Visitor Center 246 Market St, Lowell, MA 01852, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The Pawtucket Canal Bour Tour runs daily at 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, and 3:30 pm and lasts about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Join a Park Ranger for a guided tour of the Pawtucket Canal – the oldest canal in Lowell’s historic 5.6-mile canal system. Discover the stories of the workers who built and operated […]

$9 – $13

Suffolk Mill Tour

Boott Cotton Mills Museum 115 John St, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The Suffolk Mill Tour operates every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM with the exception of 7/27 and 7/28. Discover the diversity and variety of Lowell’s stories. Explore how numerous factors have shaped both the city’s past and its present. Tour combines a short trip through the historic city […]

River with a Ranger: Riverboat Tour on the Merrimack

UMass Lowell Bellegarde Boathouse 500 Pawtucket Blvd, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Discover the stories of the people who made the Merrimack River their home throughout the centuries. Learn more about how the landscape has changed and the impacts people have made on the environment.  These 75-minute tours on the Francis Cabot Lowell Riverboat will be offered on select evenings in July and August at 6 p.m. Reservations are […]

Free

Pawtucket Canal Boat Tour

Lowell National Historic Park Visitor Center 246 Market St, Lowell, MA 01852, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The Pawtucket Canal Bour Tour runs daily at 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, and 3:30 pm and lasts about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Join a Park Ranger for a guided tour of the Pawtucket Canal – the oldest canal in Lowell’s historic 5.6-mile canal system. Discover the stories of the workers who built and operated […]

$9 – $13

Suffolk Mill Tour

Boott Cotton Mills Museum 115 John St, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

The Suffolk Mill Tour operates every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM with the exception of 7/27 and 7/28. Discover the diversity and variety of Lowell’s stories. Explore how numerous factors have shaped both the city’s past and its present. Tour combines a short trip through the historic city […]

River with a Ranger: Riverboat Tour on the Merrimack

UMass Lowell Bellegarde Boathouse 500 Pawtucket Blvd, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Discover the stories of the people who have made the Merrimack River their home throughout the centuries. Learn more about how the landscape has changes and impacts people have made on the environment.  These 75-Minute tours on the Francis Cabot Lowell Riverboat will be offered on select evenings in July and August at 6 p.m. Reservations are […]

Free