The 2010 Lowell Folk Festival is just a few days away. Driving home from work this afternoon, I heard Ted Panos on WCAP interviewing Kathleen Pierce who is producing much of the social network content on the festival’s official Facebook and Twitter pages. If you are active on either of…
Well, we said this blog is about History, and there were people in Lowell dancing to disco, so this item fits. All-Star writer Dave Daniel from Westford and, let’s face it, Lowell, too, has a new review of a history of disco on the “Internet Review of Books.” Literature is…
One of our friends at the National Park Service forwarded this link to a blog post about Lowell, the Boott Mills Museum, John Greenleaf Whittier, and the thundering concert last weekend from the folks with Cake (the band): http://www.cakemusic.com/Band/band.html
In 1956: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky and Gregory Corso – prominent menbers of the Beat Generation. In the New York Times Book section this week writer Janet Maslin takes a look at a recent publication – “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters” (also reviewed in…
Better known for his drawings, paintings, and ceramics, my brother Richard has been putting some of his recollections and observations into words lately. Following is a “movie memory” that he wrote with Suzanne Cromwell in mind. He refers to her as “Suzanne Movie” for her work with the Lowell Film…
“Brilliant” author Jane Brox said “thanks” for the blog post about her book the other day and also said that she was “as surprised as anyone to see the mention [in TIME magazine].” She credited her publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, whom she says is treating her very well. Jane noted that there’s…
Several weeks ago I wrote of my rediscovery of TV sportscaster Len Berman who did sports on WBZ-TV in Boston during the 1970s and who now has launched an internet career after many decades doing TV sports in New York City. Berman’s website invites you to sign up for his…
There’s an Op-Ed in today’s Globe by Carlo Rotella, a professor of American Studies at Boston College, that uses Lowell’s Micky Ward as the prime example of how popular culture, mostly in the form of movies, has embraced Massachusetts as a place where “traditional forms of masculine virtue still thrive.”…
We know her. Jane Brox, now living in Maine, but who will always be connected to Dracut and the Merrimack Valley, has a new book, “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light,” which is featured this week as one of TIME magazine’s Short List “Picks for the Week.” Here’s the recommendation: Jane…
Gerry Nutter’s blog published an extensive response by City Manager Lynch to recent criticism of his financial management by one of his regular critics. The Manager’s statement is thorough and reasoned and civil in tone. We are fortunate that the city’s chief administrator is as capable and articulate as he is.…