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In his opinion column today, NYTimes writer David Brooks muses about his lifelong affection for the New York Mets baseball team. As he usually does, Brooks expands from particular to universal and winds up making an observation about what makes people truly happy. In his analysis he uses two American…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle of the Sun has the story on the Lowell celebration for what would be Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday this coming Monday, March 12.
Read More »Boston Magazine salutes Jack Kerouac of Lowell for all his writerly accomplishments.
Read More »The Winter 2012 edition of the Boston College Magazine arrived in the mail today. As always it is chock full of interesting and enlightening articles. One such article “Questioning Authority, Keeping the Faith” has some very interesting statistics about American Catholics. The article was based on the opening remarks at…
Read More »Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Albert “Skippy” Roberge of Lowell, who played several years for the Boston Braves. He also played for several minor league clubs, including Toronto (see below). Here’s an extended description of his life and sports career from Baseball in Wartime on the web.
Read More »Our friends at leftinlowell.com posted lively about the Hockey East playoffs starting tonight at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell with the River Hawks taking on Providence College. Click here for all the details.
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Charles Dickens Quoting the opening words from A Tale of…
Read More »This is a cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog. Using Dick Howe’s great photo below, I recalled the story of Lowell’s Irish Monument now located in Cardinal O’Connell Parkway. From the Lowell Irish Monument inscription: “…through their efforts in every facet of city life they helped establish Lowell as one…
Read More »Thursday, March 8, 12.30 pm “Celtic Tiger to EU Bailout” Discussion by Dr. Gary Murphy, President Irish Political Studies Association (free and open to the public) Dugan Hall 206, Solomont Way, UMass Lowell South Campus Sponsored by the UMass Lowell Center for Irish Partnerships. For info, contact Prof. Frank Talty at…
Read More »Irish Cultural Week kicked off on Sunday with a mass at St Patrick’s Church followed by a procession to City Hall where the Irish flag was raised and a wreath was lain at the Irish-American monument. Events continue this week with the following schedule: Thursday, March 8 6:30 PM –…
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