Remembering Peter Stamas, Thursday, Nov. 15, 7 pm, Parker Gallery/Whistler House Join us in paying tribute to one of the great humanitarians of modern Lowell, a man who made enduring contributions to education, his church, Lowell’s heritage, and the quality of life of our community. This is a Parker Lectures…
On Saturday afternoon October 13, Cardinal Sean O’Malley visited the Franco American School in Lowell to say Mass and re-dedicate the refurbised and restored one hundred year old Stations of the Cross at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Over 500 people attended the outdoor mass. The Cardinal remarked…
“Rogers Hall produced many distinguished alumnae. Among them, Anne Harvey Sexton, a 1947 graduate, was later awarded the Pulitzer price for poetry. Dr. Mona Meehan went on to become the first female chief of staff appointed to a US hospital at St. John’s Hospital, now part of Saints Medical Center. …
This will be a great event for young leaders to attend—participants in Public Matters, Gr Lwl Young Professionals, Next Generation Giving Circle, Paul Sullivan Leadership Institute, Emerging Generation, Deshpande/MV Sandbox leadership program, the Foundation, and others. Peter Stamas’s life is a sterling example of community leadership. . Here is what…
The world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s play “Beat Generation” at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Author talks by physicist David Kaiser, poet Anne Waldman, and others. Jay Atkinson with the rundown on Kerouac the Athlete. Lowell literary tours by Roger Brunelle. Kerouac’s former girlfriend and now his biographer Joyce Johnson signng books at…
The Sun this week published an extensive look at the historic transformation in process at UMass Lowell. Anyone in the city can see the physical evidence of expansion. Not since the 1970s have we seen the amount of construction on campus—and now the campus boundaries extend much farther. With the…
Following is the third bulletin from the road from Tom Sexton, our far-flung correspondent who is making his way eastward with his wife, Sharyn, and their trusty dog.—PM “Onward” by Tom Sexton The usual route from Dawson Creek, B.C., east is through Grand Prairie, Alberta, to Edmonton, and then south…
In his Sunday opinion column in the NYTimes, Thomas L. Friedman begs the President and Gov Romney to give the American voters a big vision for what the country can do. One of his suggestions is to enact government policies that make some form of post-secondary education accessible and affordable for anyone who…
On August 31, 1837, an important man from the Greater Merrimack River Valley spoke to members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass. His address that day is considered by some to be ‘America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.’ Here is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The American…
Pollard Memorial Library (Image by artist Janet Lambert Moore) There’s is a golden opportunity right now for those who really support the work and the mission of the historic Pollard Memorial Library. According to a FB post by current Trustee Marianne Gries, the City of Lowell is seeking qualified applicants for the…
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