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“South Campus Sailing” by Richard Marion, Copyright (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net The conditions were much better this past weekend for the big rowing competition on the Merrimack. Congratulations for a successful event to the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau (including Tom Golden and Deb Belanger),…
Read More »Read Dominique Browning’s NYTimes review of Elinor Lipman’s two new books: a novel, “The View FromPenthouse B,” and a collection of essays,”I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays. She is a graduate of Lowell High School and a past recipient of the LHS Distinguished Alumni Award. There is a rumor…
Read More »The website brainpickings.org recently posted on Facebook this list made by Kerouac in the 1950s. The document is titled “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose.” The editor prefaced the list, saying, “With items like ‘No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge’ and ‘Accept loss…
Read More »Another crosspost from Jen Myers’ “Room 50” blog~ please follow the link for more photos and information… Buried Treasure — A Tour of Lowell Cemetery by juicegirl50 She was married and bored. He was interesting. She was enchanted. He was smitten. It was July 1848 and famed poet Edgar Allan Poe was staying…
Read More »This is a cross post photo/blog from “Room 50” about last night’s Excellence Awards for Preservation Cultural Heritage. The presentation was offered by James Ostis of the Lowell Heritage Partnership. http://room50.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/preserving-excellence/ Note: Our fellow blogger Dick Howe was one of the honorees. Fellow blogger Paul Marion – President of the Lowell Heritage…
Read More »Last night’s reception at the Lowell National Park kicked off Doors Open Lowell weekend. This is a great opportunity to visit some of our city’s most unique buildings and tour them in a “behind the scenes” way that is unavailable at most times. Here’s the schedule: Friday, May 17, 2013…
Read More »Congratulations to the recipients (see image above for names) of this year’s awards for exemplary work in historic preservation and cultural heritage conservation, including this blog’s executive editor, Dick Howe Jr. Well over 100 people attended the reception and ceremony for the honorees. This event has become one of the…
Read More »Gary Snyder portrait (web photo courtesy of seapoetry.wordpress) One of my early poetry heroes was Gary Snyder, who turned 83 this month. Not only was I drawn to Snyder’s concise and precise back-country poems of the 1960s and ’70s, but I was also in tune to his thoughts about repairing…
Read More »Earlier this week there was a wave of stories in the mainstream media announcing that the foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts had ended. That came as news to me. As I wrote last week in the aftermath of my speech at the annual meeting of the Lowell Housing Partnership, the real…
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