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Tonight I was pleased to represent the Lowell Heritage Partnership at the National Park and City of Lowell Reception that kicked-off the 10th Annual Doors Open Lowell. Special recognition was also given jointly by the Park and the Lowell Heritage Partnership for “Excellence in Cultural Heritage” to Jr. High teacher…
Read More »Read one of the great poems of North American culture by Walt Whitman. The season, the convergence of heritage and present moment, the sounds and language of our nation, all these combine in a lasting artwork. Here are the first two sections of Whitman’s 1865 elegy for President Lincoln: 1…
Read More »Bravo to eveyone at Merrimack Repertory Theatre for bringing home a highly competitive Kresge Foundation grant of $325,000. Awards from prestigious national foundations such as Kresge signal the excellence and maturity of Lowell’s cultural industry. There’s more where this came from, and the various parts and pieces of Lowell’s creative…
Read More »Today’s Globe is carrying this AP story about yesterday’s announcement that UMass Lowell is offering a free-tution incentive to certain students graduating from any of the Commonwealth’s fifteen community colleges. While no panecea since other fees and costs are still due, any tuition assistance would be helpful to college students…
Read More »“National Recognition for the Work of Lowell’s Revolving Museum” “Lowell’s Revolving Museum learned on May 10, 2011, that it was selected as a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award national finalist by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Revolving Museum was named one of fifty finalists…
Read More »The video below shows Lowell High School’s 2010-2011 AFJROTC unarmed regulation drill team in training. AFJROTC is an acronym for Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. “AFJROTC is a four-year program citizenship program combining a broadly based aerospace science curriculum and the total development of management and leadership abilities”…
Read More »Loom Press on May 22 will release three new books by authors with connections to Lowell. “The Big Move: Immigrant Voices from a Mill City” is a collection of interviews of people living and working in Lowell who have compelling stories about their roots far away and their experiences getting…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from the Middlesex Community College blog. Once again, MCC’s students rocked the house at this year’s Leadership Recognition Ceremony run by the Student Activities office! The annual awards dinner is getting bigger and bigger each year, recognizing MCC’s best and brightest. The James…
Read More »UMass-Lowell students and NASA unite! Students have participated in an intensive NASA-sponsored workshop to create 5 short films on one of the greatest challenges faced by society and science: CLIMATE CHANGE. Join us for this free event to see the featured presentations and take part in an open discussion about…
Read More »While all politics may be local, produce touted as local may not be. As Sarah Pinneo notes in her Boston Globe article today – “locavore” – one who eats foods grown locally whenever possible – was named word of the year back in 2007. Farmers loved the trend – large…
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