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Nancye Tuttle sent us a new essay about her encounters with famed chef Julia Child. On the counter of our kitchen in a short line of cookbooks, Rosemary and I have an autographed copy of The Way to Cook from Rosemary’s mom, who attended the Lowell event described below. Read…
Read More »Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s New Book About Her 40 Years as an Artist Covers Her Time in Lowell Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s involvement in the arts includes roles as artist, teacher, speaker, writer, designer, and publisher. Her artists’ books are in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Wellesley College,…
Read More »This morning the Trustees of the Pollard Memorial Library hosted a celebration of the restoration of the library’s “Washington at Dorchester Heights” painting. Done by local artist Samuel Howes, the painting is modeled on Gilbert Stuart’s classic painting of the same name. The restoration was made possible through the generosity…
Read More »When the Most Famous Woman in America Lived in the Merrimack Valley By Juliet Haines Mofford At the height of her fame and literary skill Harriet Beecher Stowe was an Andover, Mass., resident. Averaging a book a year for nearly 30 years, she wrote nine during the dozen years she…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle is a past contributor to this blog and well known as a journalist who is still working even though she is not at the Lowell Sun every day writing about arts and entertainment in the region. Local readers may also remember the popular museum exhibition about the history…
Read More »Fred Woods is familiar to many of us who served in the Lowell revival campaign in the Roaring ’80s. He goes back earlier in Lowell as part of Team Tsongas during Paul’s runs for the U.S. House and Senate—and he was there for the presidential push in 1991-92. Although known…
Read More »Legendary Lowell Sun newspaperman Charles G. Sampas called Joseph V. Kopycinski “tireless” in his work on behalf of his school and city, according to Archivist Tony Sampas of the UMass Lowell Libraries. Tony brought to our attention an impressive page on the UML website recognizing a “Renaissance Man,” one of…
Read More »‘Ste. Therese”: An Essay by Paul Marion The second issue of Resonance, a bilingual online journal at UMaine-Orono , has an essay of mine about growing up as a French Canadian-American Catholic. The issue has familiar names, including two others linked to Lowell, Emilie-Noelle Provost, with a short story, “The…
Read More »Recent headlines report the spread of the coronavirus around the world which makes it a useful time to recall perhaps the deadliest epidemic to ever strike Lowell. It was influenza but was also known as the Spanish Flu or the grippe. It struck in the fall of 1918, just as…
Read More »Thanks to poet Joseph Donahue (Lowell/Duke University) and Tony Sampas, archivist at the UMass Lowell Libraries, we have another writer to introduce to our blog readers: William Reed Huntington (1838-1909). Born into a prominent Lowell family, William was the son of Hannah Hinckley and Elisha Huntington, a doctor who served…
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