Read the AP news story about Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Tawakkul Karman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today. Leymah was the 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.
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Today’s NYTimes includes a brief report about a Charles Dickens app from the Museum of London, produced for the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth, which will be on Feb. 7, 2012. Sam Antonacio has been working on something similar as a way to experience Lowell’s history, with the help of…
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Lots of really good and interesting information here in the just published Lowell Historic Board Newsletter. Articles include an installment in an ongoing series written by LHB Administrator Steve Stowell about Lowell building architecture; Assistant Administrator Kim Zunino’s look at “neon” signage in the downtown as well as some great vintage…
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Over on the Pollard Memorial Library blog, Sean Thibodeau invites those library users – like me – who search, research and reserve books using the fairly new Evergreen system to take a survey. The regional library consortium – Merrimack Vallery Libray Consortium (MVLC) – seven months ago switched over to…
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“Blue Smoke #3” by Richard Marion See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Billy Joel at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Concert Hall tonight for a conversation about the art and business of Music, with a few songs dropped in. This is a university-only event at the request of the Piano Man. He does these college visits once in a while as a way to…
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From nbcbayarea.com, a report on efforts to serve the entire public at national parks like Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. Nationwide, the Park Service is trying to attract a more diverse audience.
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Greater Lowell Community Foundation Grant Awardees from a past Philanthropy Day Last night the Greater Lowell Community Foundation presented its annual “Celebrate Giving” evening – an event held since 1998 – first as a daytime event of workshops and lunch now as an early evening event more accessible to people…
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Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a “Sunrise” radio essay, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun and showing up on this blog again last year. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more to all who either love or loathe the…
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Posted on the Lowell City Manager’s Blog: The City of Lowell is currently seeking interested Lowell residents to fill (2) vacancies on the Library Board of Trustees for the Pollard Memorial Library. The Library Board of Trustees provides policy direction in matters and concerns related to the Lowell Public Library.…
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