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The 2011 Lowell Folk Festival – The Birmingham Sunlights
The memory of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival lingers, thanks to these photos from Tony Sampas.
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St Patrick’s excavation delayed 24 hours
The archeological excavation of the lawn in front of St Patrick’s Church in Lowell which commenced last summer and was supposed to resume tomorrow has been pushed back a day due to travel delays experienced by the team coming from Ireland to conduct the dig. The project should begin on…
Read More »“Thinking Small in Greater Lowell” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Give the proverbial man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for…
Read More »The Great American Hall of Wonders
At the end of last week I had to make a quick drive down and back to Washington. The morning I left, I noticed a review of an exhibit that recently opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum called “The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science and Invention in…
Read More »As markets tank, politicians hit the links, oblivious
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recent memories of Cape Cod breezes, warm sunshine and gentle waves can’t dispel the acid taste left in the mouth by Congress’ despicable( and self-inflicted) game of chicken around raising the debt ceiling, followed by the eighth largest…
Read More »“unintended consequences” by Paul Hudon
Historian Paul Hudon, the author of The Valley & Its Peoples: An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack and the recently published All in Good Time, contributes the following essay: It’s my guess that most of us have seen one or two TV commercials pushing drugs. Good drugs of course.…
Read More »A path to Democratic victory
One of our frequent commenters, Kad Barma, posted a comment to a recent post by Jim Peters. While the main point of the comment is to explain why Federal spending must be curtailed (a conclusion with which I disagree but I’ll address that in a future post), KB also posits…
Read More »“An argument for a higher tariff & the nature of Tea Parties” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peter sent along the following in the aftermath of the debt ceiling crisis resolution: I watched with a great deal of interest the situation as it regards raising the debt “ceiling” which was just avoided with a compromise that could hardly be dignified by that term. It…
Read More »Council Election Big News in Cambodia
This year’s Lowell City Council race is attracting substantial interest in Cambodia. The Phnom Penh Post recently ran a big story about the race with special emphasis on the two Cambodian-American candidates, Van Pech and Vesna Nuon both running for the city council. The article features an interview with Pech…
Read More »Quebe Sisters at Lowell Folk Festival
One of the three Quebe Sisters (Grace) with bass player Drew Phelps, photos by Tony Sampas
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