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. “Robert Forrant and Christoph Strobel, under contract to Lowell National Historical Park, defined, researched and created an ethnographic overview of immigrant communities, past and present, in Lowell, Massachusetts. “The Big Move” features a selection of the thirty-five oral histories they compiled for the larger story. Emblematic of Lowell’s diverse population,…
Read More »From TIME magazine comes an article about the advanced thinking on urban transportation in the ultra-green city of Curitiba, Brazil, which was featured at last June’s Innovative Cities Conference in Lowell. Read the article here, and get TIME if you want more. Web photo by Carlos Cazalis/Corbis courtesy of TIME.com
Read More »More on city life: Look at this feature from boston.com and the Globe with ideas from young entrepreurs about how to make Boston more appealing for entrepreneurship, working, and living.
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, Somerville, Mass., is featured in an article about the innovative way the community tries to measure the happiness of its residents. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »One of Germany’s most popular leisure time activities is Volksmarching which translates, I believe, to “people’s walk.” Every weekend there are dozens of Volksmarches all over Germany. The town hosting the vent typically designs a medal of some type that is reflective of the town’s history and heritage. People belong…
Read More »What? “A Community Briefing on Pawtucket Falls Overlook/Spalding House Park Developments.” Learn about exciting plans for improvements and upgrades that will enhance public access to and visibility of these significant historic locations on both sides of the Merrimack River at the falls. Where? Spalding House Park behind the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust’s…
Read More »Paul Hudon’s book of poems, “All in Good Time: Poems 2005-2006” will be released on Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m., at the O’Leary Library Auditorium on UMass Lowell’s South Campus, 61 Wilder Street. An historian and poet, Paul Hudon is the author of “The Valley & Its Peoples: A…
Read More »[youtube]9r72aGkShD4[/youtube] The 4th Annual Lowell Film Festival begins tomorrow (Thursday, April 28). The full schedule is available on the Festival’s website. In conjunction with the films being shown, I will conduct walking tours of “Civil War Lowell” on Thursday night at 6 pm (beginning at the Ladd & Whitney monument);…
Read More »The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named a new leader for its famous Media Lab. Read the NY Times report about Joichi “Joi” Ito, who at 44 years old is already a legend in the worlds of technology and venture capital. Consider buying the NYTimes if you want more of this kind of reporting.…
Read More »The final poetry event for National Poetry Month at UMass Lowell is set for Thursday, April 28, at 7 pm, when Lowell native Michael Casey and Nicholas Samaras, with family ties in Lowell, read at O’Leary Library Auditorium, 61 Wilder St, UML South Campus. The event is free and open…
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