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We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Lowell's one big idea was running a textile empire off the Merrimack, and the city has been living off that résumé line for 150 years. The mills died, so the National Park Service turned them into museums and the rest into loft apartments. The city's peak is now preserved as a field trip for fourth graders.
Kerouac spent a whole career writing about the town he left, then drank himself to death in Florida while Lowell kept the receipts. Lowell responded by carving his words into five granite pillars and calling it a commemorative park. It's like putting up a plaque for the guy who dumped you.
Lowell's food scene is great because thousands of Cambodian and Laotian refugees settled here in the 70s and 80s and made it the second-largest Cambodian community in America. The credit belongs to them, not the city's cooking, which otherwise peaked at "Dunkin' and a boiled dinner." Meanwhile everyone else is still ordering the safe thing at Cobblestones and calling it nightlife.
The Spinners spent 25 years as the Red Sox's short-season farm team, a baseball purgatory where prospects stay just long enough to pack. The mascot is a gator in a canal, a body of water where the only wildlife is shopping carts. Then MLB cut the team loose, and now it's a collegiate summer league, which is the minor leagues of the minor leagues.
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