The NYTimes today has an article about a new art project involving tractor trailers and a bunch of activist visual artists and writers and performers. Read about The Great American Art Trip as reported by Randy Kennedy, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of arts…
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As a founding member of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation back in the late 1990s and a longtime Chair of the Distribution Committee, I know how important this seach for a new leader is to the foundation and the Greater Lowell/Merrimack Valley community. It is a critical position in our local non-profit…
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Posting that photo this morning reminded me that former Congressman/former Massachusetts Attorney General Jim Shannon wrote a thoughtful op-ed piece in the Globe back in September 2010 about the Cerberus/Steward take-over of the six-hospital Caritas Health Care System. The situation with Saints Medical Center and a quite likely buy-out by Steward makes…
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I really like this cartoon about “April as Poetry Month” on the Pollard Memorial Library blog site. Check out the PML site and read about all the events scheduled for the month of April here.
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While searching for a Saints Medical Center photo this morning I came across this image on Corey Sciuto’s great website. Corey has some terrific Lowell photos including some sent to him by others. The above photo comes from Ken Coffin, who worked as a photographer with City Fair in Lowell in…
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There’s a report in today’s Boston Globe that there is a tentative agreement in place for the Steward Health Care System that recently purchased the Caritas hospital system to acquire Saints Medical Center in Lowell. For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, with community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expected…
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Today’s entry from the Lowell High Photo Blog (I believe the Owl was part of a science class exhibition and not roaming around downtown).
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As the month of March – Women’s History Month winds down – MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 29, 1880, twenty women voted for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. This new voter group was led by renown writer Louisa May Alcott who “campaigned” door-to-door urging women…
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Tom Sexton, a Lowell High graduate and Alumni Hall of Famer and former Poet Laureate of Alaska, will read from his work in progress, which is a collection of sonnets about growing up in Lowell in the 1940s and 50s. He will also read from his new book, “I Think…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I listen to Cong. Michael Capuano and Niki Tsongas criticize President Obama for not taking the Libyan military action to Congress and, as an old anti-Vietnam War activist, I applaud their stance. It’s hard not to be concerned…
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