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The City of Lowell will celebrate its 175th anniversary as a city chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a gala event at City Hall and environs on Monday April 11, 2011 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The evening will feature honored speakers, musical performances and City Hall tours. More of this…
Read More »Bryan Marquard of the Boston Globe remembers playwright Jon Lipsky, a longtime activist in the Boston theater community. Lowell area people may recall that he wrote “Maggie’s Riff” for Merrimack Repertory Theatre, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “Maggie Cassidy,” which is set mostly in the city and at Lowell High School.…
Read More »Composer, musician, and writer Bob Martin is one of the great living artists of Lowell. He’s been touring in Europe for many weeks now, playing for crowds of people who love his Americana music. Thanks to him and Dave Robinson on Facebook for this link to an interview with Bob conducted by…
Read More »Please reserve your space now for the timely lecture about the importance of diversity in health care professions by UMass Lowell Prof. of Nursing Margaret Knight on Monday, March 28, at 12 noon, at the UML Inn & Conference Center. “As the U.S. demographics continue to shift, providing culturally competent…
Read More »From the CBS Boston.com (WBZ TV) website State Senator Eileen Donoghue was seated prominently yesterday – to see and be seen – at the Annual St. Patrick’s Day Breafast in South Boston – hosted by her colleague State Senator Jack Hart. This is quite a coup for a freshman senator. While…
Read More »This is interesting. Follow the “Room for Debate” topic of the day on career counseling from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Read the feature here, and buy the NYT if you want more.
Read More »I first read about the Tewksbury parody band FivePack Live in the Tewksbury Patch (thanks). The band features Tewksbury residents JJ Heider, Mike Daley, Amanda Kozik and Joe Vitale. FivePack Live has posted four parody music videos on YouTube and is catching. Most of the bands videos are racking up…
Read More »Poet Marie Louise St. Onge, who has deep roots in Lowell’s French Canadian-American community, sent this poem from Maine.—PM . Thaw . The Merrimack loosed from the jaws of late March speeds by high. And dark smooth currents run fast not like a steed whose head is high mane and tail…
Read More »Out walking this morning with my brother in the middle zone of the Highands, looping around Penniman, outer Cupples Square, Liberty, Calvary Baptist Church, South Walker, Shaw, Eastern Electrical Repair, the Morey School, our one-and-only urban glacier monument, and the Donut Shack. Strong sunshine even with weather reports calling for some amount of snow…
Read More »Thanks to Alan Crane on Facebook for posting this item from informationclearinghouse.info. Following is an excerpt from a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Kansas on March 18, 1968, when he was campaiging for the Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency.—PM “… All around us, all…
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