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The Arts editor of the Boston Globe decided that the Revolving Museum of Lowell deserved a close look as it closed its doors this summer. Read the article here. I was on the advisory committee of the Revolving Museum, not the board of directors but an advisory committee, for several years after…
Read More »Is it me getting less patient with uncomfortable weather or have we had an unusually long run of hot and/or swampy days in the valley? A news feature on TV this week reported on bats being hyper-active because of the extended stretch of hot days. I had a deja vu…
Read More »From the achives: Mass Moments reminds us today that on August 12, 1834 the Catholic convent housing the Ursuline order of nuns in Charlestown, Massachusetts was sacked by a Protestant mob – then burned to the ground. Catholics were not welcome in the early days of Massachusetts – in fact…
Read More »Back in March a team from the Mass Memories Road Show, a roving digital history project from UMass Boston that seeks to capture historical images from every community in the Commonwealth, visited Lowell. With the help of dozens of local volunteers, the team scanned photographs brought to them by local…
Read More »“Massachusetts Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2012. This is purple loosestrife season in the valley. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »According to the Boston Globe today, the Obama for America campaign needs help in New Hampshire because a lot of the experienced Democratic political activists in Massachusetts are signed up for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I’ve had a few people speak to me in the past month, asking how they…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle in the SUN wrote about the cultural entrepreneurs of the Greater Lowell Music Theatre—Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company—whose concert production of THE MUSIC MAN opens tonight at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall (7.30 pm curtain), with a second show on Saturday at the same time. Lots of advance tickets…
Read More »Steve Kornacki (center) with cameraman John-Carlos Estrada and NBCUniversal Senior Producer Brian Nerkowski. Steve is senior political writer at Salon.com and co-hosts of the Cycle on MSNBC paying a visit to UMass Lowell Libraries Special Collections at the Center for Lowell History to examine documents and artifacts from the Paul…
Read More »While in Israel earlier this week, Mitt Romney stated to considerable controversy that the great disparity in income between Israelis and Palestinians was attributable to “cultural differences.” As books that informed his opinion on this he cited “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David S. Landes and “Guns, Germs…
Read More »There’s a new blog in town – Room 50 which has “alive, unique and inspiring tales from the Office of the Mayor, Lowell, Massachusetts.” The inaugural post, written by first-day-on-the-job mayoral aide, Jennifer Myers, tells the tale of Dr. Moses Greeley Parker, not for his accomplishments in the field of…
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