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Lowell is noted for its textile history. It’s a great setting for the New England Quilt Museum’s 2011 Quilt Festival. Opening today, this three-day city-wide event offers a feast for the eye in venues from the Lowell Memorial Auditorium to the Whistler House. Festival presenters beckon visitors with this invitation…
Read More »The author of “Nickel and Dimed” writes about poverty in the US on the tenth anniversary of her book being released. The article is from Mother Jones magazine via realclearpoliltics.com. If you use this link and get an ad for Mother Jones blocking the article, then select Subscribe on the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve been a big fan of Newton Mayor Setti Warren, 19 months into his first term and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Scott Brown. As BlueMass Group pointed…
Read More »Paul Marion Photo from a recent Yankee Magazine article “Paul Marion: Poetry, community outreach, and a great love for his city” Today’s Sun has a story about fellow blogger Paul Marion and his “on assignment” role with Lowell National Historical Park to write a modern history of Lowell. Paul is…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Give the proverbial man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recent memories of Cape Cod breezes, warm sunshine and gentle waves can’t dispel the acid taste left in the mouth by Congress’ despicable( and self-inflicted) game of chicken around raising the debt ceiling, followed by the eighth largest…
Read More »Historian Paul Hudon, the author of The Valley & Its Peoples: An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack and the recently published All in Good Time, contributes the following essay: It’s my guess that most of us have seen one or two TV commercials pushing drugs. Good drugs of course.…
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Read More »The public is invited to the rescheduled release of Lowell poet Jacqueline Malone’s book “All Waters Run to Lethe” on September 11, 2011 at 2 p.m., at 153 Sanders Avenue in Lowell. RSVP to mlchapman@comcast.net, if you plan to attend. Malone’s book includes poems about memory and Alzheimer’s disease. The…
Read More »Ralph Fasanella’s painting “Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike” The history of the Merrimack Valley is twined throughout with many significant issues and events – many related to the causes of the Labor Movement in America. I caught this article the other day in the Eagle Tribune that gives…
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