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Charles Blow in today’s NYTimes and Fareed Zakaria on cnn.com both weigh in with truth squad reports on the antics of The Donald, who should be de-horsed in the GOP presidential stakes by that political party itself. The serious grown-ups on the Repub side should stand together and denounce once and…
Read More »The UMass Lowell River Hawks have a new men’s ice hockey team leader: Norm Bazin, who played for and later helped coach the UMass Lowell hockey-men. Read the news bulletin from UML Athletics and Sun report by Chaz Scoggins here. Norm Bazin, new UMass Lowell ice hockey coach From UML Athletics:…
Read More »The bun’s the thing! As we’ve mentioned before the proprietor of the well-known Lawton’s Famous Frankfruter establishment on the banks of a Lawrence canal has decamped with the historic secret recipe with plans to open in another spot in the neighborhood. (See original post here) The current property owner planned to reopen the…
Read More »Boston.com has a feature today on the top-ten man-made wonders in New England including: America’s Stonehenge – known as the “Mystery Hill Caves” years ago – located in Salem, New Hampshire; the Round Stone Barn in the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Bretton Woods,…
Read More »What kind of nation are we living in when 47 percent of a sample of admitted Republicans respond to a NYTimes/CBS poll question by saying they don’t believe President Obama was born in the US? Opinion columnist Timothy Egan of the NYTimes lays out the dangers of demagogues like Donald…
Read More »1970’s — Olsen Hall, Olney Hall, Lydon Library, Durgin Hall, Weed Hall, O’Leary Library, McGauvran Student Center Health & Social Sciences Building at UMass Lowell, South Campus (to open in 2013) 2010’s — Emerging Technologies & Innovation Center, Health & Social Sciences Building, UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, UMass Lowell…
Read More »This coming Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags, I will give a talk on Lowell in the Civil War. The talk will focus on the lives of a number of individuals such as Timothy Crowley (shown above) who are representative of…
Read More »While women were preferred by customers hearing that important question “Number please?” – the working conditions and wage for these women in the emerging communication business was far from preferential. With rules and standards more rigid than those for their sisters at the loom in the 1830s, the New England telephone operators…
Read More »Yesterday I returned from a long weekend in Baltimore for that city’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Pratt Street Riot, the April 19, 1861 confrontation that cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor. The centerpiece of the Baltimore celebration was a parade…
Read More »Monday being the stand-in observance for Patriots Day (April 19), and since the day was sunny even if windy, my wife and I took a walk through the Back Central neighborhood. We were pulled along for the first half by our enthusiastic Boston Terrier who could not have more enjoyed the field…
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