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Cut from American Cloth (3) . On a siding just north of the train station, there’s a scrap train—ground-up fenders and stoves and corroded pipes en route to the smelter, the chopped ham of American industry. In the rail yard, freight-car murals in graffiti code, the blocky colored letters…
Read More »I missed this long post on cities on October 29 over at our blogging colleague Corey Sciuto’s place, and don’t think rh.com linked to it otherwise, so here’s the one click access to a bunch of interesting ideas and observations about cities and urban life.
Read More »I don’t enjoy George Will’s columns the way I did when he started writing, but this column is less about his opinions than about the mind of Robert Weissenstein of Credit Suisse Private Banking. Read about the rapid changes in products and processes in our high-speed society. I picked this…
Read More »Sunday, Nov. 14, 3 pm Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the UMass Lowell String Project as everyone proudly reflects on the accomplishments of the String Kids and the continued growth of the organization. Special guests will be the Harlem Quartet, a group of innovative and highly engaging young Black and Latino musical…
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (2) . The land to the east of my house steps down to the western bank of the Concord and until recent times was called Wamesit Hill, though the only Native American in sight now is the one positioned at the center of the state emblem…
Read More »For the next few days I will publish sections of an essay about Lowell. The essay in a slightly different form first appeared in “The Offering,” the literary magazine of UMass Lowell, in 2007.—PM . Cut from American Cloth In the middle of the nineteenth century, workers in the red-brick…
Read More »Last June, Lowell hosted a conference on Innovative Cities that was attended by people from around the country and overseas. The late Tony Judt wrote about his days in New York City. An excerpt from his forthcoming book “The Memory Chalet’ is in today’s NYTimes. His description of the pluralistic…
Read More »David Paul Kuhn of www.realclearpolitics.com talks to Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia about why the “Reagan Democrats” are leaving or have left the party. Read his article here.
Read More »“If, because of cutbacks and lack of support from the federal government, literature and the arts and other aspects of the humanities become just parlor musings of the wealthy, we would have made a huge mistake,’’ Dartmouth’s president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, said in an interview. “Literature and the arts…
Read More »Looking at the fallen leaves in my back yard and on the South Common this weekend, I noticed a visual correlation. Maybe I’ve been looking at too many pictures of the cosmos, but it occurred to me that the leaf-strewn ground, if turned downside up, could look a little like…
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