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Lowell, Massachusetts

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The Resume

    (1826- )
    City in Middlesex County
    Population: 115,554 (2020)
    Designated a City in 1836
    Nicknamed the Mill City
    Home to UMass Lowell and the Tsongas Arena
    Named after Francis Cabot Lowell
    Motto: ‘Art is the Handmaid of Human Good’

Why Lowell, Massachusetts might be annoying:

    It will always be seen as a poor man’s Boston.
    Although the center of the American Industrial Revolution with its textile mills and factories, its manufacturing base declined as companies began to relocate to the South in the 1920s.
    It is notorious for being a place of high drug trafficking and gang activity.
    It was ranked as the 139th most dangerous city in the United States (2009).
    It had a Minor League baseball team - the Lowell Spinners - that was unceremoniously shut down after the Major Leagues announced cuts to the budget at the end of the 2020 season.

Why Lowell, Massachusetts might not be annoying:

    It was once the largest industrial complex in the United States.
    It took in a record influx of refugees during the Cambodian genocide between 1975 and 1979.
    It is the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts (as of 2022).
    Many of its historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park.
    It is the birthplace of Jack Kerouac, Bette Davis, Michael Chiklis, Olympia Dukakis, and Paul Tsongas.
    The Lowell Spinners were known as a stomping ground for future MLB stars, especially future Red Sox players - among them Jonathan Papelbon, Jacoby Ellsbury, Mookie Betts, and Adam Everett.
    City leadership has gradually worked to lower its crime rate over the years (it’s still way safer than Worcester or Lawrence).
    It has a long history with the New England boxing community and the movie ‘The Fighter’ was shot there.

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