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Former Clark University President Richard P. Traina was honored recently with a leadership award in recognition of the bold, creative initiatives he championed at Clark that led to significant improvements on campus and in the community. Read the Worcester Telegram & Gazette article from Dec. 31, 2010, about Mr Traina…
Read More »Tony Sampas takes a close-up look at the Civil War-era cannon that sits between Lowell City Hall and the Pollard Memorial Library
Read More »If they could come back to visit, what would Jack Kerouac, Bette Davis, James Whistler, and other distinguished creative artists linked to our city think of the giant sign on the side of the Appleton Mills building that is “Calling All Artists” to Lowell. What an amazing statement, invitation, and declaration…
Read More »In the context of recent troubles in the city, Greg at The New Englander shares his insights about the destructive power of racism as well as its limits in our immediate society. Read his thoughts here.
Read More »I caught parts of the Mark Wahlberg/David O. Russell interview on WBUR’s “Fresh Air” program earlier this afternoon. It was interesting – especially as they talked about Lowell and the city as an integral part of their movie – “The Fighter.” Check it out for yourself here at WBUR.org.
Read More »With all “The Fighter” buzz, this is a good time re-run Tom Sexton’s poem about the local boxing legend. One of the best things about a good poem is how it stands up to repeated readings or listenings. Maybe Tom should do an audio recording of his Lowell poems. People…
Read More »This is a wild story. Listen to the voice. Stay with the clip to the end or push the progress bar to the last ten seconds.
Read More »Here is something for the baby boomers out there… 52 years ago today, January 5, 1959 KTLA-TV in Los Angeles California broadcast the first episode of Bozo the Clown. In the Boston area the Bozo Show was produced by WHDH TV (now WCVB) and starred Frank Avruch as the silly…
Read More »The Lowell Sun yesterday reported that some 40 guns were stolen from a vault in a cellar of a house in Lowell. Is there a limit on how many guns an individual can legally own and store in one place? This quantity is more like an arsenal of handguns and rifles.
Read More »In all of our talk about relocating the Passaconaway statue from Edson Cemetery to Pawtucket Falls, we skipped over the issue of ownership. The plaque on the statue, shown above, says that it’s the property of the “Improved order of Red Men of Massachusetts“, a group that Eileen L points…
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