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Today’s Boston Globe Magazine traces the upward trajectory of UMass Lowell in the five years since Marty Meehan was named Chancellor. The positive results are evident every day in the city and state, but the impact will be long range for the growing number of students enrolled, the research and scholarly contributions,…
Read More »A new friend of mine from England said that Lowell is missing the boat by not telling the story of its modern physical reconstruction and architectural preservation at street level where people can take it in, appreciate it, and maybe learn from it. On a recent visit to Manchester, N.H., I…
Read More »I am a bit ashamed to say that until this week I had never paddled a canoe on the Concord River. Countless times I had driven past the canoe rental place on Main Street in Concord, Mass., the South Bridge Boat House. The weather was good this past Wednesday, so Rosemary…
Read More »The mill cities along the Merrimack River should promote themselves in clusters like the Civil War sites in the South. Why can’t our region become a multi-day destination for visitors the way heritage sites or natural attractions in other parts of the country present themselves? Manchester, New Hampshire, looks good…
Read More »The Arts editor of the Boston Globe decided that the Revolving Museum of Lowell deserved a close look as it closed its doors this summer. Read the article here. I was on the advisory committee of the Revolving Museum, not the board of directors but an advisory committee, for several years after…
Read More »Is it me getting less patient with uncomfortable weather or have we had an unusually long run of hot and/or swampy days in the valley? A news feature on TV this week reported on bats being hyper-active because of the extended stretch of hot days. I had a deja vu…
Read More »At 7:15 am, I’m bouncing between Iceland-Hungary playing team handball and watching President Obama’s surrogate Robert Gibbs on Morning Joe trying to explain the Obama plan for getting the country back on track—and Gibbs is talking like somebody put a nickel in his back to get a print-out answer. Fail. The…
Read More »“Massachusetts Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2012. This is purple loosestrife season in the valley. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »According to the Boston Globe today, the Obama for America campaign needs help in New Hampshire because a lot of the experienced Democratic political activists in Massachusetts are signed up for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I’ve had a few people speak to me in the past month, asking how they…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle in the SUN wrote about the cultural entrepreneurs of the Greater Lowell Music Theatre—Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company—whose concert production of THE MUSIC MAN opens tonight at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall (7.30 pm curtain), with a second show on Saturday at the same time. Lots of advance tickets…
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