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‘Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday’ by Richard Marion
“Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday” by Richard Marion, Copyright (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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from Lowell City Directory (1920)
“… The Boston & Maine system, and the N.Y., N.H., & H. Railroad run into and through the city, connecting it in every conceivable direction with the commerce of the world. The city is but 26 miles from Boston, and the trolley lines aid the steam roads in reaching the…
Read More »Thoughts on the Past Week
Web photo courtesy of WGBH 1. On Morning Joe today, Kenneth Feinberg, who has become the guru of victim compensation after unspeakable carnage, commented on the extraordinary charitable impulse of people, Americans and persons from outside the country. He said 50,000 people have contributed to the One Fund for victims…
Read More »‘City Life’: A Re-Post from 2010
Hearing the place-name Kyrgyzstan related to the family journey of the Tsarnaev brothers who attacked Boston made me think of a post I’d written a couple of years ago. I went into the vault to find it, and am re-running it here as an echo from the past and another…
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UMass Lowell Portuguese Center Event, April 30
‘On the Road’ on the Screen
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” has been the subject of six movies, the first being a silent movie in 1926, a year after the novel appeared. The newest version, with Leonardo DeCaprio, will be released next month. “Gatsby” is often ranked as the best American novel. “On the Road”…
Read More »Thank You, River Hawks—Hockey Champions!
For the best year of ice hockey at UMass Lowell, thank you River Hawks—for the championship season and uplifted spirits.
Read More »Frozen 4 Viewing Party Today @ the Tsongas! River Hawk-ey!
Doors open at 3 PM; Game Starts at 4:30 PMYour River Hawks will play in the Frozen Four for the very first time and you can join your fellow River Hawks fans at the Tsongas Center in the Lowell Bank Pavilion and watch all the action. You will also have…
Read More »Morse Lecture on a ‘Violence-Free World’ Set for Wed., April 17
Professor George Lopez, Chair of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame is this year’s F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecturer. Join UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College for a reception at 5:30 p.m. and lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the Brad Morse Federal Building, 50 Kearney Square, Lowell, Massachusetts. The lecture…
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