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Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Archive for April 13th, 2012
Loaves & Hyacinths; Bread & Roses
Here’s another piece of lyrical writing that former Mayor John Robert Smith of Meridian, Mississippi, quoted at the Creative Placemaking Summit on Wednesday. This sentiment pre-dates the Bread & Roses slogan of Lawrence by some centuries, but makes the same case about the need to feed soul and body. .…
Read More »‘A city is not builded in day’ (Vachel Lindsay)
On the Building of Springfield Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses’ home, That Oxford rules the heart of London still, That Florence gave the Renaissance to Rome. Record it for the grandson of your son — A city is not builded in a…
Read More »Lowering gas prices by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It never made sense to me, but now it does. I never thought this was the time for the President to open temporarily the spigot of the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve, the world’s largest supply of emergency crude…
Read More »Mass Innovation in Lowell
Last Wednesday at the Appleton Mills in Lowell Mass Innovation Nights, ran an “event designed to leverage the local social media community. Every month the event showcases a wide range of new and innovative products from local companies. Mass Innovation Nights is marking its third anniversary and the first event…
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