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One of the most popular Lowell Walks this summer and last was Literary Lowell. Led by Sean Thibodeau of the Pollard Memorial Library, the Literary Lowell walk visited downtown places featured in books or relevant to the authors who wrote other books. Some of the most enjoyable events I’ve attended…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Some fans are burning jerseys to protest San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit and not stand for the National Anthem to protest inequitable treatment of blacks in America. He wants to call attention to racial injustice and police…
Read More »Paul Richardson is a writer and photographer who has been doing creative work in the city since the 1970s. His show is in the John Greenwald Gallery of the Arts League of Lowell center at 307 Market Street. Gallery hours are Wed-Sat, 12 to 6 pm, and Sun, 12 to…
Read More »Big doings this Thursday downtown with the season finale of First Thursdays including arts events and shopping and eating throughout the downtown. The galleries, Hypertext bookstore, restaurants, and shops will have their doors open for the evening. In connection with these activities is a special one-night lighting display at the…
Read More »Last week, my wife, Rosemary, and I diverted to Hyde Park, New York, on the way back home from Syracuse University to see the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. The experience was well worth the hour-and-a-half drive south from Albany along the Hudson River and surprisingly relevant. Once…
Read More »I think this analysis by columnist Thomas B. Edsall in today’s NYTimes is too binary and too harsh on the Democrats coast to coast, but inside his argument are truths about trends and the record of priorities in the past 40 years, since Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The TV show “All…
Read More »The “Lowell Walks” topic this Saturday is the Lowell Public Art Collection. Rosemary and I will meet people at 10 AM at the National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, for a 90-minute guided tour of the monumental sculptures commissioned and installed in the 1980s and 90s in downtown Lowell.…
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival “Here we are dealing with living traditions. We know that the urge to preserve is based on the fact that we know the things that we are passing on have value, and we want to hold on to them. So we try to build continuity and to…
Read More »There’s a major museum exhibition in Paris about the Beat Generation writers this summer. Geoff Dyer, one of the best writers working today, has a piece about the show in The Spectator in England. He gives Jack Kerouac high marks for literary achievement but minces no words about the author…
Read More »Is Lowell a Happy City? We’ll find out this fall thanks to the Pollard Memorial Library. This year’s Lowell Reads book is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Lowell Reads is an annual effort by the library to create community through literature and reading. The…
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