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Boston.com has a feature today on the top-ten man-made wonders in New England including: America’s Stonehenge – known as the “Mystery Hill Caves” years ago – located in Salem, New Hampshire; the Round Stone Barn in the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Bretton Woods,…
Read More »What kind of nation are we living in when 47 percent of a sample of admitted Republicans respond to a NYTimes/CBS poll question by saying they don’t believe President Obama was born in the US? Opinion columnist Timothy Egan of the NYTimes lays out the dangers of demagogues like Donald…
Read More »1970’s — Olsen Hall, Olney Hall, Lydon Library, Durgin Hall, Weed Hall, O’Leary Library, McGauvran Student Center Health & Social Sciences Building at UMass Lowell, South Campus (to open in 2013) 2010’s — Emerging Technologies & Innovation Center, Health & Social Sciences Building, UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, UMass Lowell…
Read More »This article appears in today’s Springfield Republican – it might have some interest to area locals especially UMass Amherst alums: AMHERST – After decades of debate, and with some difficult questions still to be answered, the University of Massachusetts football program will make the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision.…
Read More »This just in. The 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry goes to Kay Ryan, recent US Poet Laureate, who will be reading her work at UMass Lowell on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 pm, in the O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St, UMass Lowell South Campus. Parking is available…
Read More »From History.com – On this day in history – April 18, 1775 – … British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day April 17, 1893 – Lucy Larcom – author, newspaper writer, poet, Lowell mill girl – died in Boston. In her autobiography “A New England Girlhood” – Larcom captured an element of the “Lowell Experiment” seen through the eyes of that Yankee mill girl toiling in the early…
Read More »From the website of artist, author, educator – Susan Gaylord: Today’s poetry month post is a tribute to my friend Paul Marion the unofficial poet laureate of Lowell, MA. In my calligraphy years, his poems were a frequent source of content. Rather than list his many accomplishments and projects, I’ll…
Read More »MassMoments remind us that on this day – April 14, 1642 – the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World requiring that children be taught to read and write. It was an incredible step for education. While not a universal mandate at the time, it did…
Read More »These undated images provided by the US Postal Service shows forever postage stamps commemorating the first year of the Civil War: the first battle of Bull Run in Virginia, top, and Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Postal Service released the two new stamps commemorating the first year of the…
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