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Thanks to Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! on Facebook and the blog Reader’s Almanac of the Library of America for this film clip and commentary about Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. The footage is from November 1975 in Edson Cemetery in Lowell, when Bob Dylan was in the city with…
Read More »UMass Lowell today announced a donation valued at $5 million from alumni Robert and Donna Manning. A new home for the university’s College of Management will be named the Robert Manning School of Business. Read the Boston Herald report here, and get the Herald if you want to read…
Read More »“THE PORCH is to eastern Massachusetts what Steel Magnolias is to northwest Louisiana. A deceptively tender play that is also very funny. It’s an inviting place to set a while and will leave you feeling right neighborly.” Broadway World Tickets are moving fast for the four performances of Jack Neary’s…
Read More »I don’t know if it is because we endured such a harsh winter this year, but the spring season seems like it has come to us in high-definition. I’ve read the media coverage about the mother-of-all-allergy-seasons and the double deluxe blooming in the woods and fields. That’s part of the overall…
Read More »I don’t think of NYTimes columnist Maureen Dowd as a sentimental person, at least not from her opinion pieces, but in her latest op-ed column she gets a little misty in between her wise-gal lines as she writes about the Irish embrace of both Queen Elizabeth II and President Obama.…
Read More »You Can’t Go Home Again, But Your Old Car Can I left my old home town for good nearly 25 years ago, after spending a rich early career helping to rebuild its historic structures and fading reputation. And, although I have few opportunities to walk her streets or visit old…
Read More »One of our far-flung correspondents, Ray LaPorte of Lowell and beyond, sent this phone-cam picture of a Kerouac souvenir t-shirt in a shop window in Vineyard Haven on “the Island” in the Atlantic.
Read More »In the mid-1960’s there was a boomlet of interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, yes, those pesky UFO’s. In my semi-rural suburban neighborhood in Dracut there was a phase one summer when some people stood on their porches and in the backyards and looked up at the star-packed sky. They were…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of NASA via npr.com Picked this up on npr.com from a report on “the view from the Space Station.”
Read More »UMass Lowell this week was recognized as one of the top schools in the nation for its commitment to community engagement with the announcement that UMass Lowell had been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The rankings are assigned by the Corporation for National…
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