Archive for October 27th, 2010

CTI Local Heroes

Community Teamwork Inc held it’s Local Heroes award ceremony this evening to honor nine people or entities whose activities during the past year of made Greater Lowell a better community. Besides this year’s honorees, several dozen prior award recipients were present this evening. Together they all served as a tangible…

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Maya Angelou Papers Acquired; Remembering Her in Lowell

Today’s NYTimes includes this article about the Harlem-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library acquiring a massive archive of papers from author and performer Maya Angelou. The story prompted me to recall Maya Angelou’s visit to Lowell in 1989 as a guest of Middlesex Community College. Following is…

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