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In the mid-1960’s there was a boomlet of interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, yes, those pesky UFO’s. In my semi-rural suburban neighborhood in Dracut there was a phase one summer when some people stood on their porches and in the backyards and looked up at the star-packed sky. They were…
Read More »Don’t forget the “Rally to Keep the Fifth Intact” today at 1pm at the UMass Lowell/Inn & Conference Center at 50 Warren Street in historic downtown Lowell – the heart of the Fifth Congressional District. Please join us! Here’s your invitation: Dear Friend, Please join Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, special guest…
Read More »UMass Lowell this week was recognized as one of the top schools in the nation for its commitment to community engagement with the announcement that UMass Lowell had been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The rankings are assigned by the Corporation for National…
Read More »The Queen at the Rock of Cashel – one of Ireland’s ancient sites and most visited by tourists. The Queen’s historic four-day visit was the first to the Republic of Ireland by a reigning British monarch. Of particular note were these comments from the Queen during her speech at the…
Read More »Don’t miss the book release party for three new books from Loom Press by writers with strong Lowell connections who have created books with strong Lowell content. The event is Sunday, May 22, 2 pm, at O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St., on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. Everyone…
Read More »Paul Krugman usually is not this buoyant in his economic analyses, but in the NYTimes today he has good things to say about prospects for the manufacturing sector of the US economy. This should be of interest in Lowell, given our history, and assuming that we will need a strong manufacturing sector…
Read More »Today I visited Lowell’s Sullivan Middle School to speak with the eighth graders about Lowell and the Civil War. They had just started that covering that conflict in history class, so my presentation which includes the many Lowell connections to the start of the war such as Lowell resident Gustavus…
Read More »Read all about “Porches,” the Jack Neary play coming to the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in June in this news release from the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office. This is a production of Actors, Inc., in partnership with the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas. Jack Neary of…
Read More »To paraphrase old Walt Whitman writing about “great poets” and repeating a little something that I use at public events, I want to give a shout out to the readers, hundreds of ’em, thousands of ’em, who visit this publication again and again. You complete the loop. Today was a…
Read More »The scenes of various locks and canals in this video are fabulous. The host of this five minute production on water power in Lowell is Shane White and his cameraman is James Strangroom. I am not sure if White and Strangroom made this video for a school project or just…
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