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Paul Krugman in his NYT column today tells why we are not getting serious energy policy legislation out of Washington, D.C. Krugman lines up with Andrew H., if you’ve been reading this blog regularly. Read his essay here. Krugman’s colleague Ross Douthat takes a different view on the consequences in his…
Read More »Kudos to the City of Lowell, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitor Bureau, Lowell Festival Foundation, Lowell National Historical Park, and National Council for Traditional Arts for once again being the prime movers behind an inspiring and joyful Lowell Folk Festival. The Sunday crowd was much smaller than yesterday’s, but it…
Read More »The popular Franco-American singer-songwriter Michele Choiniere of Vermont this afternoon at Boarding House Park dedicated her final song at the Lowell Folk Festival to Jack Kerouac because, she said, “He was a Franco-American, and he was from Lowell.” I missed her additional comments about the song and the title, but it…
Read More »Have you created a special blogger persona for yourself – an anonymity in the internet world? It might surprise you that according to research done by Tal Yarkoni of the University of Colorado at Bolder – a blogger’s choice of language is in fact not concealing or masking the “real you”…
Read More »I’ve been to every Folk Festival since the first National Folk Festival in Lowell in 1987, and the 2010 Saturday was as good as I’ve seen it—the talent, the street life, the audience size, the urban energy. I spent a lot of time at Boarding House Park with the UMass…
Read More »As the Massachusetts House and Senate conferees continue to negotiate the elements of the casino/gambling bill, stories continue to crop-up about casinos elsewhere. One of the most controversial is the attempt to license a casino only a half-mile from the national military park that commemorates the Civil War battle…
Read More »The Learning Gulf It has been about a week now. BP has its finger in the dike, and the seabed is strangely silent. I almost miss that Live Feed (Live! Crude! Oil!). On TV the oil looked, oddly, like some underwater dust storm. Maybe it is over. Maybe not. Now…
Read More »From the organizers of the Lowell Folk Festival: Weather change tonight. *The Ethnic Flag raising has been moved to the Lowell High School Auditorium at 6:45 p.m. *All Boarding House Park performances will be held inside Lowell High School in the Irish Auditorium. *The Dutton Street Dance Pavilion opens at 7:15…
Read More »It’s always fun to get the SUN insert with the Lowell Folk Festival schedule, artist/group descriptions, and street map of the stage locations and other attractions. Looking at it this morning, I thought the community has done well in the past 30-something years building what is for all intents and…
Read More »Globe staffer James Reed delves deeper into what the Lowell Folk Festival is really all about in today’s edition. It’s an obvious but overlooked fact about folk festivals: In the truest sense, they’re not just about singer-songwriters wielding acoustic guitars or dancers kicking up their heels to Cape Breton fiddlers.…
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