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These young women have drawn attention for their creative campaigning for their dad, including their spoof of the Herman (Who?) Cain man-smoking-a-cigarette political ad. After Mitt Romney’s $10,000 bet with Tex Perry at last night’s debate and Newt’s splurging surge, maybe Jon Huntsman will finally get his 15 minutes in the GOP…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on the evening of December 11, 1995 – a fire reduced Malden Mills to rubble. It was one of the worst in the state’s history. Seven hundred people were at work in the factory when, at a little past 8:00 p.m., a boiler exploded in one…
Read More »From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childhood, the original is held by the Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College On this day – December 10, 1830 – poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst,…
Read More »In this news release from UMass Lowell, see links to Leymah Gbowee’s talk on campus last April and related articles.
Read More »Read the AP news story about Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Tawakkul Karman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today. Leymah was the 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.
Read More »Today’s NYTimes includes a brief report about a Charles Dickens app from the Museum of London, produced for the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth, which will be on Feb. 7, 2012. Sam Antonacio has been working on something similar as a way to experience Lowell’s history, with the help of…
Read More »RiverHawkNationUMassLowellAthletics MHOC: River Hawks Win!! they defeat #3 Boston College in a final score of 3-2! 4 minutes ago
Read More »Lots of really good and interesting information here in the just published Lowell Historic Board Newsletter. Articles include an installment in an ongoing series written by LHB Administrator Steve Stowell about Lowell building architecture; Assistant Administrator Kim Zunino’s look at “neon” signage in the downtown as well as some great vintage…
Read More »Two guys cross the playing field in the half-dark, heading for the train station. Bishop Markham Village glows amber from the night-lights on South Street, and there’s nothing moving on Summer Street, where the houses face the park like homesteads on the edge of their fields. The big tree-less bowl and floor…
Read More »“Blue Smoke #3” by Richard Marion See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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