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UMass Lowell’s Frank Talty provided the following details about the archaeological project in the Acre. Frank is director of academic programs in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He’s been instrumental in shaping the project in collaboration with administrators and faculty at Queens College in Belfast. Following is an excerpt from…
Read More »Please check out Nancye’s World, the newest addition to Lowell’s thriving blogosphere. Nancye Tuttle, longtime arts and lifestyle reporter at the Lowell Sun, will use Nancye’s World to report on arts, entertainment, cultural happenings and all that is interesting in Lowell, the Merrimack Valley, Boston and beyond.
Read More »The front page of “The Arts” section in the NYTimes has an article about the long and winding road to the cinema screen for the mostly Lowell-filmed Micky Ward bio-pic “The Fighter,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the boxer, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams, among others. The nationwide release date is…
Read More »Lowell native Dr. Brian C. Mitchell wrote of the Irish in Lowell 1821-1861 and the Lowell Acre’s “Paddy Camps”. The wire story the other day was just a teaser. A story in today’s Globe tells the fuller story of the teaming-up of students from UMass Lowell with researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast for…
Read More »People are reading about Lowell’s Irish-American roots all over New England this morning. The UMass Lowell/Queens University of Northern Ireland archaeological project on the grounds of St. Patrick Church in the Acre earned major coverage in the Boston Globe today (bottom of Page One). I was on a National Park canal tour…
Read More »On this day in history August 9th – a literary note – In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden’’ which described Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond, was first published. Walden Pond State Reservation Concord/Lincoln, Massachusetts From the Massachusetts Depatment of Conservation and Recreation website (more information here): Henry David Thoreau lived…
Read More »Thanks to the Boston Globe for this reminder about the Lowell Quilt Festival – a city-wide celebration of quilts – scheduled for August 12-14 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorum with a special exhibit “Art Quilts Lowell” at the Brush Gallery on Market Street in downtown Lowell. Check for more Festival…
Read More »I read Marie’s post about the Coffee Party before I went to buy groceries at the Market Basket at Stadium Plaza, Rte. 38 in Tewksbury (I always think I’m still in Lowell there). Anyway, I was standing in line with my number waiting to be called on at the deli…
Read More »Boston.com is carrying a news wire report from the Associated Press about UMass Lowell students and archaeologists from Queens University in Northern Ireland digging for traces of the early Irish presence in the Acre. They’ll be excavating around St. Patrick Church (1831) beginning the week of August 16. The project is…
Read More »CALL FOR ENTRIES: Request for Qualifications, Appleton Mills Art Installation Project Eligibility: Open to all artists/designers/teams residing in New EnglandProject Description: Trinity Financial invites artists/designers/teams to forward qualifications for an artwork to be permanently installed in the four-story atrium of the Appleton Mills redevelopment, an historic textile mill located…
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