On Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 5 p.m., Community Teamwork Inc. will unveil the restored and renewed Irish/Acre mural on a CTI building whose back wall faces the Worthen House Cafe on Worthen Street. The Hellenic Culture & Heritage Society will host a reception until 7 p.m. to celebrate artist Leo…
When you break open the box holding a 1000-piece puzzle, pour out the pieces, and start assembling them, it’s a good idea to look at the picture on the cover of the box. It’s a good idea to look at it often. Without that “big picture” as a guide, it’s…
I know, I’m posting this poem off-season if that matters. We don’t read Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” in December only. Tom Sexton sent me this poem a few months ago, and I neglected to share it with our readers. My bad. So, with the official start of fall close and…
This Saturday at the Arts League of Lowell gallery, 307 Market Street (close to the corner of Dutton and Market), meet photographer Paul Richardson and see his outstanding photographs of Lowell buildings and places. The reception is 4 to 6 p.m. Cameo Diner. Olympia Restaurant. Bridge Street downtown. Pawtucket Falls.…
Tonight at 7 p.m. at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor community room, there will be a panel discussion on Lowell Walks and how walking, waterways, natural places, and great stories can improve the quality of life for everyone in a city like Lowell. I’ll serve as moderator and Bob…
Primary Election In case you missed it, the state primary election took place this past Thursday. 4,896 of the 62,453 registered voters in Lowell showed up. That’s 7.84 percent. The major contested race in Lowell was in the 18th Middlesex State Representative District. Rady Mom was renominated with 1,072 votes;…
I waited a long time before writing about 9/11, not because I didn’t want to but because I could not find the right words. I had composed a short, oblique poem called “The Cut” that delved into the way Nature tends to heal itself when it can, the way tree…
Here is the lead editorial from the September 7, 1992 edition of the New York Times – A Labor Day piece about the recently opened Boott Cotton Mills Museum: Youngsters who are made to troop through America’s historic landmarks might reasonably conclude that in the past, rich was typical. Ordinary…
Love Where You Live Visiting Mill No. 5 yesterday, I spotted this hand-printed sign in the window of Sweet Pig Press. Love Where You Live epitomized this past week in Lowell with the highlight being the lighting of the canals on Thursday night which was part of the Lowell Waterway…
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…