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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, contributed the following column. What will happen if we increase taxes? Should my students study harder? How hard should we work to make sure everyone has…
Read More »It’s hard to believe that I’ve been attending Lowell Folk Festivals for more than a quarter of a century. That makes me feel old. I vividly recall George Price, the jovial assistant superintendent of the Lowell National Park, leading the opening parade up Central Street to the South Common where,…
Read More »Tooch Van, a Cambodian-American resident of Lowell, shares some thoughts on this past weekend’s National Assembly Election in Cambodia: The Cambodian National Assembly Election: Good v Bad @Tooch A. Van, Tuesday, July 30 2013 at 6:30 am (Lowell, MA USA’s time) A good politician versus a bad politician. A good…
Read More »Reverend Seamus Finn, OMI We’ve profiled and highlighted the work of Lowell-connected Oblate – Seamus Finn, OMI in past blog posts like this one: https://www.richardhowe.com/2013/01/02/fr-seamus-finn-omi-new-years-resolutions-and-corporate-social-responsibility/. Today we note a Letter-to-the Editor at the Lowell Sun where Father Finn has taken issue with the Sun editorial criticism of Elizabeth Warren’s “obsession with Wall…
Read More »View across Boarding House Park during the 5 o’clock hour Saturday for Maggie Ingram and the Ingrametts – a Gospel group that had the audience on its feet, swaying, clapping and perhaps shouting a few hallelujahs … the smoke overlay was nothing religious… it rose up from the large grills at the food…
Read More »I’ll have some thoughts on the “big picture” of the Folk Festival in a few days. For now, here are some photos from a great day in downtown Lowell.
Read More »Some observations after five hours of festivaling today: the weather, crowd, talent, food and visitors were all great. I especially enjoyed the amazing Red Trouser Show, the street acrobats who performed in the middle of Merrimack Street (at intersection with John). They did a lot of juggling, backflips and other…
Read More »I know it’s unlikely, but just in case any of our readers didn’t realize it, the Lowell Folk Festival begins tomorrow night and lasts through the weekend. We’ll have photos, video and text reports posted throughout and welcome contributions from everyone. So if you have reviews, observations, pictures, whatever, just…
Read More »Saturday night I refereed a debate between two friends, both from a younger generation than me, over the necessity of air conditioning. One combatant maintained that even here in New England, modern home and building design made artificial cooling a necessity; the other maintained that while A/C is certainly pleasant,…
Read More »“(We hope) that our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, mental illness with a pill, poverty with a law, slums with a bulldozer, urban conflict with a gas, racism with a goodwill gesture.” – Philip E. Slater “Wisdom demands a new orientation of…
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