A truck. A canal. Lowell.

Yesterday at First Saturday at Western Ave., word came down the hallways. Scuba divers in the canal! The canal is a straight 5 stories down from my studio windows. Several of us gathered at a window to watch.


Then - they found something! A car! How did the car get there? Was it pushed? Dumped? Punked?


No. This is what I heard. It was a pickup truck that was brought in to the garage for repair. It popped out of park and rolled slowly down the embankment and into the canal.

A tow-truck - slash - crane was carefully braced, and the divers attached the underwater truck to the crane, which then pulled that truck out of the water.


Oooh! Aaah! That was good entertainment. I wonder if there were artists hanging out of most of the canal-side windows to watch!

Lowell Sun slideshow

A thank-you to Kathleen Pierce at the Lowell Sun, who has engineered production of a slide show of Gov. Patrick's visits around Lowell today.

Here's the link to the online article, plus the slide show at the bottom.
http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_12889818