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Anne Ruthman Photos: UMass Lowell Veterans Ceremony
Lowell photographer Anne Ruthman yesterday documented the Veterans Day ceremony at UMass Lowell. See her fine images here on her blog.
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Filmmaker Henry Ferrini to be Honored by UMass Lowell
From the UMass Lowell Honors Program: “The Honors Program is proud to welcome the award-winning filmmaker Henry Ferrini to campus on November 18 as this year’s Honors Community Fellow. Ferrini will screen his 30-minute film, Lowell Blues, at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street in Lowell, at 4:00, followed…
Read More »‘Atlantic’ Marks 153rd B-day w/ Poems by Gr. Merrimack Valley-5th Cong. District-Concord/Merrimack Watershed Author
November 10, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Education, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell, Poetry
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This blog is in good historical company as a publication that regularly features poetry. Read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s four poems in the first issue of the Atlantic magazine, published on November 9, 1857.
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (3)
Cut from American Cloth (3) . On a siding just north of the train station, there’s a scrap train—ground-up fenders and stoves and corroded pipes en route to the smelter, the chopped ham of American industry. In the rail yard, freight-car murals in graffiti code, the blocky colored letters…
Read More »Corey’s City
I missed this long post on cities on October 29 over at our blogging colleague Corey Sciuto’s place, and don’t think rh.com linked to it otherwise, so here’s the one click access to a bunch of interesting ideas and observations about cities and urban life.
Read More »String Project 10th Anniv. Concert with Harlem Quartet
Sunday, Nov. 14, 3 pm Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the UMass Lowell String Project as everyone proudly reflects on the accomplishments of the String Kids and the continued growth of the organization. Special guests will be the Harlem Quartet, a group of innovative and highly engaging young Black and Latino musical…
Read More »Politics Afoot? Catholic Campaign for Human Development Under Scrutiny
Those of us in the pews are used to the annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. My CCHD envelope for November 21st notes: “Your gift will help groups of low-income Americans address the causes of poverty in their communities. Your generosity will secure…
Read More »To understand urban education, walk in the principal’s shoes by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. She got on the phone with facilities people to get the heating system working, met with two guidance counselors about arrangements for Spirit Day, caught up with another administrator about making sure teachers had turned…
Read More »Humanities on the Rise in Higher Ed
“If, because of cutbacks and lack of support from the federal government, literature and the arts and other aspects of the humanities become just parlor musings of the wealthy, we would have made a huge mistake,’’ Dartmouth’s president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, said in an interview. “Literature and the arts…
Read More »Do These Guys Read What They Write?
November 5, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Education, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics
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David “Uncle Dave” Brooks in the NYTimes and Ron Brownstein in the National Journal both write this week about the Democrats’ problem with a certain kind of voter in the middle of the United States. Here’s Uncle Dave referencing his colleague Brownstein: As Ronald Brownstein of the National Journal noted, “The…
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