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Roger Brunelle, inventor of the guided tours of Kerouac’s literary sites in Lowell, will lead a 2.5 hour bus tour on Saturday, Oct. 2, starting at 8.30 am at the National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. See the sites written about in “Visions of Gerard,” “Doctor Sax,” “Maggie Cassidy,”…
Read More »NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman today writes that “structural unemployment” is a fiction accepted by certain experts as a way to explain why so many people are jobless and repeated by many others who prefer to believe that explanation rather than do something difficult to try to fix the problem. Read Krugman here, and consider getting…
Read More »1. Middlesex Community College Friday night drew a large crowd to Lowell Memorial Auditorium for the celebration of 40 years of MCC and 20 years of President Carole Cowan’s leadership there. Congratulations to everyone who helped produce a dynamic event, which had the feeling of a special party more than…
Read More »Jennifer Myers of the SUN yesterday wrote about the statewide group called Preservation Massachusetts sounding the alarm about proposed changes to the Pawtucket Falls Dam on the Merrimack River. Read her article here, and consider buying the SUN if you appreciate the reporting.
Read More »How many films have been made about a poem? Here’s one. Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” isn’t for everyone’s taste, but it did its part to shake up a lot of people’s thinking and sent a shock wave through the literary world. It’s been described as the second most influential long poem of…
Read More »Our blogging colleague at Choosing a Soundtrack has a Friday, Sept. 24, post worth about four minutes of your time. He wrote about Hank Williams’ song “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and brilliantly inserted an audio recording by a couple of his musician friends that is so easy to access that I…
Read More »This announcement is from www.moveon.org: “On October 2nd, exactly one month before Election Day, hundreds of thousands of people are gathering in Washington, D.C. for “One Nation,” a huge march for jobs, equality, and progress. Can you join us? At the historic Lincoln Memorial, progressives from coast to coast will…
Read More »Antje Duvekot (web photo courtesy of overtheline.com) Poet and folksinger Antje Duvekot, winner of the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act of the Year, will perform in the Urban Village Artist Series (UVAS) at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival on Friday, Oct. 1, at 8.30 pm at the Old…
Read More »Tom Perrotta Notable fiction writers Ann Hood (“The Red Thread”), Tom Perrotta (“Little Children”), Anita Shreve (“A Change of Altitude”), and Andre Dubus III (“The Garden of Last Days”) will talk about “Art and Commerce” at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival…
Read More »News Release from Preservation Massachusetts, Old City Hall, 45 School Street, Boston, MA 02108, 617-723-3383, www.preservationmass.org Contact: Jim Igoe or Erin Kelly, 617-723-3383 PAWTUCKET DAM LISTED AMONGST MASSACHUSETTS’ MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC RESOURCES: Landmark 19th Century Dam Facing Irreversible Damage in Proposed Hydroelectric Project “The Pawtucket Dam in Lowell has been…
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