Lowell residents from across the city gathered yesterday to clean up, build beds, and get all ready for the growing season in five of Lowell’s Community Gardens: Franklin Court and Whiting Street in the Acre, Smith Street in the Lower Highlands, Rotary Club Park in Back Central, and West 3rd…
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			“Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday” by Richard Marion, Copyright (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net    
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			Hearing the place-name Kyrgyzstan related to the family journey of the Tsarnaev brothers who attacked Boston made me think of a post I’d written a couple of years ago. I went into the vault to find it, and am re-running it here as an echo from the past and another…
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			MassMoments reminds us that writer Lucy Larcom – one of Lowell’s iconic Mill Girls in her youth, died on this day April 17, 1893.  In her autobiography A New England Girlhood, Lucy Larcom wrote: “From the beginning Lowell had a high reputation for good order, morality, piety, and all that…
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			The comedian Jonathan Winters died on April 11, 2013. Here’s a short video of some of his most memorable skits, courtesy of the New York Times. [youtube]wjpyztgCq8w[/youtube]
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			Happy New Year to all of our Cambodian friends and neighbors here in Lowell. There was a great celebration yesterday at Clemente Field that featured music, food and games. Shown above is a team of women playing Angkunh, which I understand to be a traditional New Year’s Game. Two teams,…
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			F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” has been the subject of six movies, the first being a silent movie in 1926, a year after the novel appeared. The newest version, with Leonardo DeCaprio, will be released next month. “Gatsby” is often ranked as the best American novel. “On the Road”…
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			For the best year of ice hockey at UMass Lowell, thank you River Hawks—for the championship season and uplifted spirits.
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