Menu
All winter long I’ve said we got all the snow I wanted this year before Halloween, a reference to the October 30, 2011 snowfall that knocked down trees and knocked out power for many days (five for me). Unless a whole lot more snow falls in the next few hours,…
Read More »A large crowd of contributors and supporters gathered last night at the Back Page in Kearney Square for the official “launch party” of Howl in Lowell, the city’s newest entrant into the online information world. Howl in Lowell is a fully electronic “web-zine” that will cover the arts, entertainment and…
Read More »Bob Forrant, professor of history at UMass Lowell and director of the Bread & Roses Strike Centennial, sent me the following post about events in Lawrence one hundred years ago this month. Check out the Bread & Roses Strike Centennial website for more info about upcoming events. On the morning…
Read More »Mass Memories Road Show is a public history project organized by UMass Boston. It travels around the state and sets up shop in a particular community on a particular day. Residents of that community are then invited to show up with photographs, both old and current, that show the history…
Read More »The sun setting over the Merrimack River. Photos by Tony Sampas. UPDATE: These photos were taken from the riverbank adjacent to UML’s South Campus looking west towards the Rourke Bridge.
Read More »We’re in the midst of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The 100th anniversary of World War One is not far away. While that war began in 1914, America did not enter it until 1917 and US ground forces saw…
Read More »Jim Peters sent along the following essay: I have some major health issues that sometimes I can forget about; to be dredged up at another time. One of those recently caused me to reconsider running for State Committee. I was mentally ready for a run, but physically I had to…
Read More »This coming Saturday, March 3 from 10 am to noon, there will be a Tweet-Up at Lowell Telecommunications Corp, 246 Market Street, right next to the Lowell National Park Visitors Center. The event is informal and unstructured and will benefit everyone ranging from the person who has no idea what…
Read More »“Delightful” is not a word that gets much use in my vocabulary, but it’s the one I’ll use to describe “Daddy Long Legs” which I saw Thursday night at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Set in the first decade of the twentieth century, it’s the story of Jerusha Abbott who, when…
Read More »I just noticed the following video appear on the Howl in Lowell YouTube page. Here’s the explanation from there: [The below] was playing on screen at last night’s (Fri. 2/24/12) alternative party in the Zorba Room at the Olympia Restaurant. We think it’s a great HOWL out! See the full…
Read More »