Recently my son had to do a research paper for her 4th grade class about our town.
I felt that this would be a difficult task, because this town isn’t very big and doesn’t have a fascinating history.
It’s a great place to live, but I’m not sure how I would write 500 words about it myself! My kid surprised me, and got an A on the paper by focusing on notable people that come from this area. Until now I didn’t realize so many great and influential people came out of Lowell, Michigan! The one that I did know was Anthony Kiedis, who is the lead singer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Everyone in Lowell knows Keidis, because of his music and because we were all huge cannabis smokers in high school. Marijuana and Chili Peppers music just goes together, and every teenager from Lowell knew that. What I didn’t know was that Anne Rule, one of the greatest non-fiction crime writers in history, was born in Lowell. William Seward Burroughs invented the adding machine and founded the Burroughs corporation, and he graduated from Lowell High School! His grandson was William S Burroughs, a major part of the Beat Poetry movement, although he wasn’t born in Lowell he still has family roots here. Another famous graduate of Lowell High is the fashion designer Daniel Vosovic! I was smoking marijuana as I read my kid’s paper, and then spent the next three hours researching the history of Lowell online. Maybe the sleepy town of Lowell, Michigan is cooler than I thought it was.