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Lowell recites “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
A community video mashup . . . [youtube]Ioxqgafd0yY[/youtube]
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Stephen King at UMass Lowell
In the same year that UMass Lowell and the National Park Service celebrated Charles Dickens’s famous visit to Lowell in 1842, the University hosted the author who is arguably the Dickens of our time when it comes to readership and popular interest—that would be Stephen King, the guy who grew…
Read More »Art at the Pollard Library
Last night the Pollard Memorial Library Board of Trustees and the PML Foundation hosted a reception to celebrate the official unveiling of a number of restored works of art long owned by the library. Perhaps the centerpiece of the restoration effort was the painting “Venezia” by Lowell-native David Neal (1838-1915)…
Read More »Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012
The pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, credited for the revival of interest in jazz in the 1950s and 1960s, died yesterday, a day short of this 92nd birthday. His obituary in today’s New York Times gives a full review of his life and his influence on music. The below video…
Read More »‘Millstream’: Newsletter of the Lowell Museum (Fall 1978)
Spin the time machine and what comes up spurs recollections. Here’s an excerpt from the Fall 1978 issue of “Millstream,” the newsletter of the Lowell Museum, which operated out of the Wannalancit Mills complex on Suffolk Street in the 1970s. My co-blogger Marie Sweeney was president of the Lowell Museum…
Read More »‘Concord & Merrimack Confluence’
“Concord & Merrimack Confluence” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Quotes from ‘The International’
This has nothing to do with Lowell other than that we are consumers of the pop culture like everyone else. One of my favorite films of recent years is “The International” (2009), starring Clive Owen as Interpol investigator Louis Salinger and Naomi Watts as New York City Assistant District Attorney Eleanor…
Read More »‘Yellowstone and Lowell’
Some of the readers of this blog know that for the past year I have been writing a book about the origin and impact of Lowell’s national park. Below is a “sidebar” piece that will appear in the “Making the Park” chapter. The manuscript is nearly complete, and Lowell National Historical Park will…
Read More »‘Cake and Tea’ by Richard Marion
“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion, (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Union Station – Worcester
If you’ve ever driven through Worcester while heading west on Rte 290, you may have noticed the two white towers of the city’s train station just to the right of the highway. Union Station was constructed in 1911 and abandoned in 1975. In 2000, however, the city poured $32 million…
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