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Scot’s Heather wins prize in 1861 Both Tewksbury weeklies – The Advocate and the Town Crier – are reporting plans for a summer search for any signs that the “Scot’s Heather” – that won a “New Native Plant” medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society back in 1861 – still grows in the Tewksbury town…
Read More »While nobody was looking, writer-actor-director-baseball wiseman-cultural commentator-allied blogger Jack Neary packed his stuff and moved from Lowell to southern New Hampshire, just over the border in Derry. After Robert Frost trying to run a farm in that town many years ago, this is probably the biggest literary news in Derry. Jack’s…
Read More »The ritual has been going on since the late ’80s now, but anyone with a feeling for the pulse of the city can feel the urban heart pumping at a faster rate starting mid-week of Lowell Folk Festival weekend. It’s always the last full weekend of July—full weekend—which is why…
Read More »Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Beijing, China in 1995 I would like to thank the Secretary General of the United Nations for inviting me to be part of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration – a celebration of the contributions women make in every…
Read More »If you are in downtown Lowell for the Lowell Folk Festival this weekend, and everyone reading this should be going to the Festival for at least a few hours, then walk to the intersection of Market, Central, and Prescott streets and look for the Printer on Prescott Artists Research Center.…
Read More »The 2010 Lowell Folk Festival is just a few days away. Driving home from work this afternoon, I heard Ted Panos on WCAP interviewing Kathleen Pierce who is producing much of the social network content on the festival’s official Facebook and Twitter pages. If you are active on either of…
Read More »Well, we said this blog is about History, and there were people in Lowell dancing to disco, so this item fits. All-Star writer Dave Daniel from Westford and, let’s face it, Lowell, too, has a new review of a history of disco on the “Internet Review of Books.” Literature is…
Read More »One of our friends at the National Park Service forwarded this link to a blog post about Lowell, the Boott Mills Museum, John Greenleaf Whittier, and the thundering concert last weekend from the folks with Cake (the band): http://www.cakemusic.com/Band/band.html
Read More »In 1956: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky and Gregory Corso – prominent menbers of the Beat Generation. In the New York Times Book section this week writer Janet Maslin takes a look at a recent publication – “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters” (also reviewed in…
Read More »The NYT on July 16 reported that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will donate half of his $13.5 billion of personal wealth to various charitable causes. His announcement is tied to a nationwide challenge by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to the mega-rich, asking them to pledge half their fortunes to…
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