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Ayer Mill and Clock Tower in Lawrence, Massachusett The March issue of Boston Magazine has a scathing article about the City of Lawrence penned by “novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, investigative journalist…” from Methuen, Massachusetts – Jay Atkinson entitled “City of the Damned” wherein he describes Lawrence as “the most godforsaken place in…
Read More »“Young Angel Midnight,” the arts anthology published by Bootstrap Press of Lowell in collaboration with COOL, the Cultural Organization of Lowell, last night won a New England Art Award in the Book category. The anthology won “The People’s Choice” award. More than 60 writers, visual artists, and musicians contributed material…
Read More »This is a cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog. Our colleague Dick Howe gave the “Howl in Lowell” – inaugural edition – on-line arts and entertainment magazine and its readers a history lesson on the City of Lowell seal. Lowell Howls About Lowell’s Historic Seal Posted on March 1,…
Read More »The following story is by Julia MacDonnell, whose first novel “A Year of Favor” was published by William Morrow in 1994. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, North Dakota Quarterly, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She was born in Maine and grew up in Massachusetts, where…
Read More »Bob Forrant, professor of history at UMass Lowell and director of the Bread & Roses Strike Centennial, sent me the following post about events in Lawrence one hundred years ago this month. Check out the Bread & Roses Strike Centennial website for more info about upcoming events. On the morning…
Read More »Mass Memories Road Show is a public history project organized by UMass Boston. It travels around the state and sets up shop in a particular community on a particular day. Residents of that community are then invited to show up with photographs, both old and current, that show the history…
Read More »We’re in the midst of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The 100th anniversary of World War One is not far away. While that war began in 1914, America did not enter it until 1917 and US ground forces saw…
Read More »It’s all about the cars! The big NASCAR races are but the current focus of aficinados of the sport -although for the first time ever the opening of the Daytona 500 was rescheduled due to the heavy rain and dangerous conditions down in Daytona, Florida yesterday. It’s really a pageant, a festival – if…
Read More »See www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org for the full schedule of activities from March 5 to March 12, organized as a weeklong tribute to the Lowell cultural powerhouse Jean-Louis Kerouac (1922–1969). UMass Lowell is involved with several events including a special screening of the film “Lowell Blues” with the director Henry Ferrini on Monday, March…
Read More »Somebody once said that Lowell is a “little big city,” and that character is due in part to the spectrum of activities on any given day: small to large, low to high, basic to extravagant, local to global, traditional to experimental, common to cosmic — you get the idea. Yesterday…
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