Lowell Deeds

Next Thursday, November 6, 2008, I will be the guest speaker at the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture. The event will begin at 7 p.m. at Lowell’s Pollard Memorial Library (401 Merrimack Street, right next to City Hall). The topic of the discussion will be “The Registry of Deeds and the Foreclosure Crisis.” I plan to review some of the history of this registry and our methods of maintaining land records through the years, but the evening will also include a presentation of up to date statistics on the rate of foreclosures in Greater Lowell and a discussion of the causes of the present crisis.