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For info contact Donna White at donnawhite@glmt.org or 978-319-8867 GLMT announces summer shows LOWELL, Mass. – The Greater Lowell Music Theatre, in partnership with the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas, is pleased to present its 2014 summer season of musicals. All shows are performed in Durgin Concert Hall, located on…
Read More »On Saturday, April 18, 1998, about 100 people attended a “town meeting” called “What Does the Internet Mean for Lowell?” at the O’Leary Library of UMass Lowell. The gathering was sponsored by the UMass Lowell Psychology Dept. Community Outreach Laboratory, Flowering City Steering Committee, New England Foundation for the Arts…
Read More »NYTimes opinion-writer David Brooks speaks out on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl issue. Read what he has to say here, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of writing. David Brooks (web photo courtesy of NYTimes)
Read More »This past Friday, I had a very good experience dealing with the City of Lowell Solid Waste & Recycling Office. For some reason, the recycle containers on my short street were not picked up on Thursday (having been bumped a day due to the holiday). When I went home for…
Read More »MAYA ANGELOU PAPERS ACQUIRED; REMEMBERING HER IN LOWELL This is a re-post from Oct. 27, 2010, offered today in remembrance of Maya Angelou’s life and writings. The post began with a head note: Today’s NYTimes includes this article about the Harlem-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library…
Read More »My family shares an 1860s house with my wife’s parents. We’ve been spring-cleaning this weekend, and one of the tasks was to straighten out the old bookcases that are scattered around their side and our side of the big house. In one small wooden bookcase on their side, one partial…
Read More »I’ve posted this prose poem from 1978 on the blog before. It was written soon after the experience that provided the brief story thread. In those days, I was constantly on the lookout for images and incidents that could feed a new composition. I wanted to write, write, write. It’s a slight piece, but…
Read More »Architect Patrick Tighe is based in Southern California these days, but he has deep Lowell roots. Today’s NYTimes’s Home section features photographs and an article about a house in Los Angeles designed by Patrick. Montee Karp and her husband Dr. Harvey Karp hired Patrick to transform their ocean-facing house. She…
Read More »I was thinking about UMass Lowell’s Commencement the day after and made myself step back from the scene I was in to get a better sense of what was going on. The Tsongas Center on Saturday was a magnificent setting. When the pipes and drums started up, everyone in the…
Read More »Bill Nye the Science Guy at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center last night (Image courtesy of Facebook page of Chancellor Marty Meehan). This is Commencement Day at UMass Lowell, and it’s wet out there. The grizzled and frizzed-hair ink-stained scribes of the media world will use all their…
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