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On this day – June 27, 1963 – President John F. Kennedy, son of Massachusetts and son of County Wexford – arrived in Ireland. Celebrating the Irish roots of this American President, warm and welcoming crowds greeted President Kennedy in his ancestral home in Dunganstown and in Dublin. He described…
Read More »Direct from the Lowell Folk Festival Organizers – an update of what to expect for opening night and Saturday night parades of the festival. More information and updates as we get closer to the festival weekend: Well, who doesn’t like a parade? And this year for the Lowell Folk Festival’s…
Read More »Artist Ed Ruscha elaborates on the way Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” influenced him in 1958 and continued to affect his work through the years. Read the report from the Associated Press via ABC News here.
Read More »We lost a “local treasure” when Catherine Goodwin died last week. One of Catherine’s legacies – and there are many – is her reseach on the Lowell Cemetery. Through her tours, her book and interview with Lew Karabatsos – now on DVD, Catherine shared her love of Victorian cemetery history,…
Read More »Paul’s post on the Kerouac Commemorative reminded me that there is information available on other Lowell public art renderings. While there is more commemorative and monumental art out on the Lowell scene, this Lowell Public Art Collection – Walking Tour with an easy-to-follow map is available on the UML/Center for…
Read More »Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Inc., the tireless community group that produces literary and cultural events in March and October each year as a tribute to the lasting inspiration of Jack Kerouac, posted on its Facebook page several photographs of the Kerouac Commemorative in Kerouac Park at Bridge and French streets. The…
Read More »Erin McKean tells us in today’s Boston Globe “The Word” that spelling bees are no longer just the realm of students in grammar school. You remember those days. Every school – both public and private – in the Greater-Lowell area had a spelling bee that sent the winner to a…
Read More »Jacquelyn Malone’s new book of poems, “All Waters Run to Lethe,” will be released at at book party on Sunday, July 17, at 2 p.m., at 153 Sanders Ave. in Lowell. The publisher is Finishing Line Press of Kentucky. Jackie’s work has appeared in many literary journals, including Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares,…
Read More »The Globe’s writers have stepped up their game for the crime saga unfolding in real time in Boston. In today’s paper, commentators James Carroll and Kevin Cullen have their say about the James Whitey Bulger horror show. Carroll has a masterful essay that puts the crime story in perspective, both…
Read More »To celebrate St. Jean-Baptiste Day in 1880, the Lieutenant Governor of Québec, Théodore Robitaille, commissioned Calixa Lavallée to compose O Canada to a patriotic poem by Adolphe-Basile Routhier. Born in Quebec – in 1857, Lavallée moved to the U.S. and lived in Rhode Island where he enlisted in the 4th…
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