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Read More »Hot Art Market in Lowell; Creative Economy Shows Strength
LZ Nunn of the City’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Special Events reports that the art market in Lowell is surprisingly strong even as the Great Recession holds back the economy in general. Lowell has hundreds of artists of all kinds. Each one is a small business even if that’s…
Read More »Civil War Stamps
In the early 1960s, I was following my father’s lead and collecting stamps. I wasn’t obsessive about it, but I enjoyed the hobby for a while, particularly as the stamps were small windows onto history and geography. During the centennial of the Civil War (1961-65), the US Postal Service issued…
Read More »Whitman and Lincoln
The NYTimes online has an ongoing series about the Civil War, started in anticipation of the 2011 anniversary year when we will see lots of attention being paid to the beginning of the Civil War. This blog has already moved in that direction. Today’s entry at the NYT site is…
Read More »Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
December 14, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics
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Lowell Gallery owner and all around good guy Guy Lefebvre sent me this nugget from an old Lowell newspaper. Some of the party platform planks have flopped and flipped through the years, but the rhetoric remains modern. This is from 1834, when Lowell was still a town, two years before…
Read More »Six More US Soldiers Die in Afghanistan
The top story in the NYTimes online at this hour is the loss of six more US soldiers in Afghanistan, killed when a van loaded with explosives blew up at an outpost manned by US/NATO and Afghan troops. Many Afghan and US soldiers were wounded in the attack, for which the…
Read More »Pawtucket Dam Issue at Con-Comm, 12/15
December 11, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Current Events, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell
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Here’s the link at Gerry Nutter’s place for info about the Wed Dec 15, 7.15 pm, City of Lowell Conservation Commission meeting at which the Boott Hydropower/Enel company will be present to discuss plans for the dam at Pawtucket Falls.
Read More »Jane Brox’s Book Is a Top TIME Pick
December 11, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Education, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell
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I have to brag on this one. My friend Jane Brox, native of Dracut and the Merrimack Valley and now living on the Maine coast, made the TIME magazine list of the top ten best non-fiction books of 2010 (#5) with her wonderful book “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light.” Writes…
Read More »Green Building Excellence Awards
Nov. 24, 2010, Contact: Allegra Williams, (978) 446-7200 x1473, AWilliams@lowellma.gov City of Lowell Green Building Commission Announces Call for Green Building Excellence Award Applications Deadline for Submission: Friday January 7, 2011 LOWELL – The Green Building Commission is accepting nominations and applications for deserving development projects that wish to compete…
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