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Today is officially Jack Kerouac Day in Massachusetts. It’s the author’s birthday, March 12 (1922). The Governor will issue a proclamation in recognition of the day. The legislature put this on the books in 2001, thanks to state Sen. Moore of Worcester, Lowell’s Statehouse delegation at the time, local citizen…
Read More »UMass Lowell history professor and economic analyst Bob Forrant yesterday contributed an op-ed essay to the Eagle-Tribune newspaper of Greater Lawrence. In the piece, Bob makes a case for this being a turn-around moment in Lawrence based on positive facts, which are chipping away at the standard negative perception of…
Read More »The Party Band (Web photo by Anne Cook courtesy of Party Band Facebook page) The Party Band Announces Release of Debut Album Transcendenta Street-Friendly, 24-Piece Brass Band from Lowell, Mass., Drops First Album on Mar. 29 at Local Music Festival The River Hawk Party Band (know to locals as The…
Read More »English author Geoff Dyer (b. 1958) writes books about what interests him and is known for fusing imaginative forms. He was interviewed by Matthew Specktor for the Winter 2013 issue of The Paris Review. Following is an excerpt. Below, he talks about being in France some years ago when he…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle reports on happenings with the dynamic Greater Lowell Music Theatre, including a songfest of classics by Rodgers & Hammerstein on March 21-22 at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall. Read all about it in the Sun newspaper. Playwright, director, actor, baseball player, UMass Lowell English Dept. alumnus, and organizer supreme…
Read More »Okay, Sun, anytime now you can return from your break. I’m ready. I’m sick of taking the dog out for a “skate” instead of a walk when I dare to cross over to the South Common. I can’t get the trash bins into their hideaway behind the lilac bushes because…
Read More »(top photo by Jen Myers) I appreciated the farewell remarks of City Manager Bernie Lynch at his final City Council meeting as Manager last night. Especially this part, according to my colleague Dick Howe’s notes: Through all of that, I was hoping to build a sense of community. Lowell is…
Read More »Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge (1872-75) James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1905) was nine years old when his family left Lowell and traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father helped the Czar build a railroad. In Lowell, his father, George Washington Whistler, and mother, Anna Matilda McNeill, lived at…
Read More »State Representative Tom Golden has been out front and leading on public policy responses to the widespread opiate abuse that is claiming too many lives. In 2013, his advocacy led to the re-opening of Tewksbury Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Detoxification Center and working with the Greater Lowell Health Alliance he…
Read More »Louise Griffin of Lowell is speaking out about the addiction crisis that is destroying so many lives around us. Her son died recently, after struggling for several years with addiction that began with taking pain-killing pills in high school after a hockey injury. Read about Zachary and Louise and two…
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