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My earliest interest in history in Lawrence was the loss to fire of the Alexander B. Bruce school in 1951. This Ames Street School with a dominant location and attractive architectural style was located quite near Engine 8 firehouse on Ames Street. the school's bell tower was another landmark on Tower Hill.
My brother attended the last class at the old school which was replaced by the current AB Bruce School on Butler Street that I attended .

I do not have a photo, but just wanted to mention a loss of a historic building in my own neighborhood.

Linda Siegenthaler

The current exhibit at the Essex Art Center's Beland Gallery showcases Joyce Audy Zarins sculptural work of tree footprints and drip lines. One of the trees she documents stands on the South Common. Joyce chose this tree because her grandmother came from Canada in 1912 at the age of 13 to work in the Lawrence textile mills, the year of the great labor strike. She researched the trees on the Common to determine which one was closest to the place where the strikers gathered. Her chosen tree serves today as a “witness” to her grandmother’s presence and the strike of 1912.