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I walked our family’s Boston Terrier in the leftover dark this morning before the sun edged over Wamesit Hill and the far treeline that loosely follows the path of the Concord River. The hem of the sky showed lighter blue, but above the night held. Heading toward Gorham Street I passed the backs of…
Read More »Electrical power service was restored at about 3.30 pm on Highland Street after being out since last Saturday at about 8 p.m. I’m watching the TV news with one eye while writing this, and can see that lots of folks are still in the cold and dark. Jack Harper on…
Read More »In anticipation of “falling back” with the clocks, watches, and digital counters. “Brilliant Night” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »nytimes.com is previewing a profile in the paper’s upcoming Sunday Magazine of author, comic strip artist and teacher Lynda Barry, who spent three days in Lowell this week as the first artist-in-residence of the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas (see earlier post below). Read Dan Kois’s magazine article here, and…
Read More »Advance interest is high for the upcoming Lunchtime Lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center on the topic of the 2012 Presidential primaries and caucuses. Seating is limited to 100, but a few spaces are available. UMass Lowell Chancellor Martin T. Meehan will moderate a panel discussion with journalists…
Read More »In commentary at huffingtonpost.com this morning, former Vermont governor Madeleine M. Kunin writes about the American-ness of unity and cooperation as opposed to a doctrine of winner-take-all competition that is behind the most mean-spirited attitudes encountered too often these days. Read her thoughts here.
Read More »For the past three days, UMass Lowell’s Center for Arts and Ideas hosted its first visiting artist, Lynda Barry, an award-winning author, comic strip artist, painter, and teacher. She met with students in their classes, gave a talk to a standing-room-only sized audience in O’Leary Library, and taught a workshop about stories and…
Read More »This is an excerpt from a poetic sketch titled “Old Love-Light” by nineteen-year-old Jack Kerouac. October was his favorite month. In “On the Road,” he wrote: “In inky night we crossed New Mexico; at gray dawn it was Dalhart, Texas; in the bleak Sunday afternoon we rode through one Oklahoma flat-town after…
Read More »Pete Seeger with red cap at center; to his right is honorary Lowellian David Amram (AP web photo by Stephanie Keith courtesy of cbs.com). Read the Washington Post report about music legends Pete Seeger, David Amram, and friends taking to the street last Friday night with the “Occupy” demonstrators in New York…
Read More »This is a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate built by King Nebuchadnezzar II at the entrance to Babylon about 600 years before Jesus of Nazareth was born. You can’t see it in Iraq these days, but there’s a version in a German museum that was built in the 1930s from remains…
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