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Liz Longley (photo by caesar photography) On her third visit to the Lowell Summer Music Series, Liz Longley appeared to be very comfortable in front of a Lowell crowd. She’s probably at ease on any stage after doing 150 gigs a year while in college. She recently graduated from Berklee…
Read More »Lowell High School has chosen its 2011 Class of Distinguished Alumni. This celebration of distinguished alums began back in 2004 when literary great Jack Kerouac (1939), businessman and philanthopist George Behrakis (1951), U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas (1958) and businessman Elkin McCallum and his wife community activist Donna Lavigne (both 1961)…
Read More »A surprise showed up yesterday on Facebook when a Friend posted a link to a blog entry from Huffington Post/AOL that was by a writer who works in Lowell, maybe lives in Lowell, and was writing about the remarkable pluralism in the city. Read Nataly Kelly’s post here. About the…
Read More »9th Annual Kerouac Road Race Race proceeds go to the Jack Kerouac Scholarship awarded to a Lowell High School graduating senior planning a major in literature or the arts. Time is running out to get your micro-tec race t-shirt!!! Sunday, September 25th Be one of the first 400 registered and…
Read More »“Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 To see more artwork, visit www.richardmarion.net
Read More »My old schoolmate Bob Jette posted on FB about this short essay by Deepak Chopra on huffingtonpost.com about the issues that he believes will determine the outcome of the presidential election next year. Read the essay here.
Read More »“Confluence of Concord & Merrimack” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 To see more artwork, visit www.richardmarion.net
Read More »The city of Lowell announced about a year ago plans to identify the Palin Plaza area of the Lower Highlands neighborhood “Cambodia Town” in an effort to brand that sub-neighborhood with an ethnic identity reflecting its residents and businesses and also to create a possible tourist destination. It seems that…
Read More »Hurricane Bob heading for New England (1991) In August 1991, Hurricane Bob roared through the Merrimack Valley in synch with an attempted coup in the USSR that eventually led to the Soviet Union’s downfall. I was at my desk listening to news and writing in my notebook. I later published…
Read More »The front page of the “Home” section of the NYTimes today has an article headlined “The Jack Kerouac of Junk,” which is a profile of the co-star of the popular “American Pickers” weekly program on the History Channel (5.5 million people watch). The “antiques” dealer who started rescuing bicyles and…
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