Ralph Fasanella’s painting “Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike” The history of the Merrimack Valley is twined throughout with many significant issues and events – many related to the causes of the Labor Movement in America. I caught this article the other day in the Eagle Tribune that gives…
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This week’s New Yorker magazine includes a “Talk of the Town” piece by Elizabeth Kolbert about a recent field trip to Mt. Greylock in western Mass. that recreates the July 1844 climb of Henry David Thoreau, described in “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.” Today’s NYTimes has a brief…
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As the recent Lowell Folk Festival reminded us, the current Superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore Park was the Deputy Superintendet here in Lowell for many years. Annually he still leads the opening folk festival parade dancing with his iconic red, white and blue umbrella and his unique festival moves.…
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Read the latest from NASA on today’s planned launch of the Juno spacecraft for its journey to Jupiter five years from now. “Juno will help us understand how the solar system formed, and how all the planets formed, from the solar nebula some 4.5bn years ago,” said Jack Connerney, deputy…
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Here’s the latest from the Wall Street Journal on the disaster in the stock market today. Get the WSJ if you want more. Subscription required online also.
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This is an extraordinary announcement from Forbes Magazine. San Jose Calif, Boulder Colo., Framingham Mass., Huntsville Ala., and Durham N.C. are the five regions listed as more Geeky than Lowell (figures based on percentage of workers in science, technology, engineering, and math-based jobs). See the list here. Both the City Manager…
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In the Huffington Post/AOL Business section, UMass Lowell Professor Bill Lazonick of the master’s program in Regional Development contributes his analysis to a story about huge oil industry profits.
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Page one of the NYTimes online and in print features Deborah Sontag’s lengthy article about Pericles Clergeau, the young man accused of murdering Jose R. Roldan last January at the Lowell Transitional Living Center on Middlesex St. The reporter offers a disturbing account of Clergeau’s behavior for years and the…
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Lowell native Mehmed Ali has been serving with the US State Department in Iraq for the past few years. Last Saturday, the Sun published a photograph with caption noting that Ali had recently received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy in Baghdad. According to the…
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