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A very poised and articulate young lady took the podium at the 175th Celebration at Lowell City Hall yesterday afternoon. As fellow-blogger Dick Howe remarked in an earlier post ” the reading of the winning “Lowell Story” essay was a highlight” of the event. Kierstyn Brady and her family agreed that we…
Read More »President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 2011 the same day he signed a short-term continuing resolution bill that will keep the federal government operating long enough for Congress to vote on a budget deal reached late Friday. From the House Appropriations Committee – from Ranking Democrat Rep…
Read More »UMass Lowell this week will host internationally acclaimed folk artists from Prague in the Czech Republic who are touring the United States. “From Southern Bohemia to Mexico” is a joint project of two dance groups, “Motak” and “Dvorana.” The two dance groups are accompanied by music from “Kvitek.” The performance, free…
Read More »Shakespeare will return to Boarding House Park this summer with a free performance thanks to the Moses Greeley Parker Lectures and Lowell Summer Music Series. On Sunday, August 14, at 4 pm, see the New England Shakespeare Company’s production of “Measure for Measure.” For news on the whole schedule announced…
Read More »On April 7, the UMass Lowell Center for Women & Work presented its annual “Splash! Awards” to Irene Egan of the Visiting Nurses Association of Greater Lowell, Rosemary Noon of the Lowell Plan Inc., and Allegra Williams of the City of Lowell’s Planning and Development Division. The awards were made…
Read More »With the celebration of the city’s 175th anniversary coming up next week, I was asked to share on this blog the poem I was commissioned to write by the city’s Sesquicentennial Committee in 1986. I read the poem at the opening ceremony on the plaza at the JFK Civic Center.…
Read More »One of the most important American painters of our day is George Condo, who has deep roots in Chelmsford and at UMass Lowell, where his father, Pasquale Condo, was a longtime professor of mathematics. Condo was profiled by Jim Sullivan in yesterday’s Boston Globe. One early influence on Condo was Kerouac: “But as a…
Read More »Over 500 people rocked the Lowell Memorial Auditorium as BeatleJuice wow the crowd. As part of Middlesex Community College’s 40th anniversary celebration the highly regarded Beatles cover band played for over three hours. A fun time was had by all.
Read More »Colonist visiting with Chief Massasoit in 1621 On April 1, 1621 – from This Day in History at History.com: At the Plymouth settlement in present-day Massachusetts, the leaders of the Plymouth colonists, acting on behalf of King James I, make a defensive alliance with Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags. The agreement,…
Read More »The topping off ceremony at the construction site of UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center was satisfyingly inspirational for many reasons, chief among them being the sight of a long white steel girder autographed by hundreds of people in blue Sharpie and bearing a small fir tree and US…
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