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The Lowell Folk Festival website just posted a list of the performers who will be at this year’s Lowell Folk Festival on July 29-31, 2011: Dervish – One of Ireland’s Premier Traditional Music Groups Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun – Dieselbilly Eddie Pennington – “Travis-style” thumb-picked guitar Hector del…
Read More »From Tony Sampas: Making my way to the pastry shop. Walking past the beautifully restored Community Family building on Broadway
Read More »For many years I understood the importance of adding more vegetables to my diet, but I struggled to move beyond frozen peas and corn. Two years ago I discovered Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and its summer-long flow of locally grown, fresh vegetables of both the old standby varieties like sweet…
Read More »The history of technology is a subject that fascinates me. Although individuals have long invented things, much technological advancement comes from corporations. As part of that interest, I keep a list of company names and their meanings. This topic came to mind earlier today when I wrote a short post…
Read More »Today’s Globe carries the obituary of Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital. I never met Olsen and never worked at DEC, but the story reminded me of the glory days of the computer industry in Massachusetts in the 1980s with Digital and Wang serving as the global leaders in that…
Read More »Safi Shams grew up in Israel and recently completed his master’s degree research on the 19th century American industrial revolution at UML. He shares his observations on events in Egypt and Tunisia as of two days ago: The recent events at Egypt and Tunisia echo similar themes and emanate from…
Read More »Tony Sampas peered through a snowbank to photograph this sign for the Southeast Asian Market on Cardinal O’Connell Parkway in Lowell
Read More »The Needham “Your Town” page of boston.com reports that author Chaim M. Rosenberg will be speaking at the Needham Free Public Library on February 15, at 8 p.m. (the library says 7:30 pm) to discuss his latest book The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817. Francis Cabot Lowell…
Read More »Growing up in Lowell in the 1960s and 70s, all of my contemporaries had as a goal to move out of Lowell as quickly as possible. Most did. I felt a similar urge but after four years away at college and another four in the US Army, I realized that…
Read More »I was downtown on Saturday morning and checked out the entries in the snowman making competition on JFK Plaza. Above is the entry from the JG Pyne Arts School; below is the one from the Butler. This walk through was the closest I’ve ever come to attending a Winterfest event…
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