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Click on the Schedule of Events to see the array of activities. That’s the “old” Lowell Plan Inc. logo on the bottom left. This is pre-Lowell Folk Festival, when the national park was three years old. Note the trolley: that’s “The Whistler” — and maybe George Price of the…
Read More »While On the Road is still the most widely read of Jack Kerouac’s works, Mass Moments reminds us that the highly autobiographical The Town and the City was his first novel. On this day March 23, 1948 he noted in his diary or “writing log” that he had written 2500 words and was…
Read More »The machinery of justice grinds on in the dispute between the National Park Service and Enel Green Power North America over the future condition of the scenic and significant Pawtucket Dam at the falls on the Merrimack River in northern Lowell. The custodians of our country’s heritage treasures are trying…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Southie’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day breakfast was anything but traditional yesterday. A testament to the new Boston, a majority-minority city, the breakfast was hosted for the first time ever by a woman, a person of color, a Haitian-American,…
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Read More »Lowell’s Image Theater will be producing its 4th annual festival this year to celebrate women writers for the stage. Jerry Bisantz sent the following information about this year’s event: Femnoire: The Women’s Playwriting Festival March 28, 29th at 8PM The Whistler House Museum 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA Tix $19…
Read More »The following article by James Ostis appeared in this week’s edition of Khmer Post USA Culture meets Creativity with Flying Orb Productions By James Ostis It started with book covers. Around 2005, Lowell photographer Jim Higgins needed models to appear in cover images he was shooting for various publications. A…
Read More »Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, I lived in a mostly French-Canadian ethnic world. Two sets of my first-cousins had an Irish-American mother and father respectively. St. Patrick’s Day for my father meant a green tie with a shamrock for Mass on the Sunday closest to March 17. My…
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