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Thanks to the Boston Globe for this reminder about the Lowell Quilt Festival – a city-wide celebration of quilts – scheduled for August 12-14 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorum with a special exhibit “Art Quilts Lowell” at the Brush Gallery on Market Street in downtown Lowell. Check for more Festival…
Read More »James Clark Westford Historical Society artifacts As a founding member of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation and a member of the Foundation’s Distribution Committee, I was interested in a nugget of information in today’s SUN. In the article “Keeing History Dry” – Westford Historical Society member James Clark notes that…
Read More »If you were wondering what was happening on the Coffee Party USA scene, the group has scheduled a national convention for September 24-26, 2010 in Louisville Kentucky. For a reminder about the movement’s origins and mission check here. For a quick FYI: The Vision: Reason, truth & civility in public affairs; A…
Read More »Statue of “The Worker” Public Art in Lowell, Massachusetts
Read More »The Washington Post and the Associated Press are reporting today that the Republican National Committee is in sync with the Democratic National Committee when it comes to the schedule for the 2012 Presidential Primaries. The Republican National Committee adopted a new schedule for the 2012 presidential primaries Friday, agreeing to a…
Read More »Boston Catholic Church officials announced Thursday that the archdiocese’s weekly newspaper is now available through Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and via an Apple iPhone application.The 181 year old The Pilot – America’s oldest Catholic newspaper and the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston – is the first Catholic newspaper to…
Read More »For my fellow blogger Dick and others unhappy with the Target Corporation’s recent political donation – the AP is reporting today that: The head of Target Corp. apologized Thursday over a political donation to a business group backing a conservative Republican for Minnesota governor, which angered some employees and sparked…
Read More »One of the most important after effects of the 2010 Census is the redistricting process – the changing of political borders of Congressional districts as well as the House and Senate legislative districts. As Secretary of the Commonweath Bill Galvin reminded us constantly in preparation for the Census – getting…
Read More »It was great to see all the kids downtown today at Lowell’s Boarding House Park enjoying one of the “Kids” sessions of the Summer Music Series. Despite the heat everyone seemed to be having fun under good supervision and the watchful eye of Deputy Superintendent of the Lowell National Historical…
Read More »The Wall Street Journal reported the other day that Barnes and Noble has put itself up for sale. Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation’s largest bookstore chain. The New York-based…
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