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Antje Duvekot (web photo courtesy of overtheline.com) Poet and folksinger Antje Duvekot, winner of the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act of the Year, will perform in the Urban Village Artist Series (UVAS) at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival on Friday, Oct. 1, at 8.30 pm at the Old…
Read More »Why all the angst over the sale of a health care system? Here’s the problem. The future of the health care system in Massachusetts is still in a risky place. Consumers, providers, insurers, employers, policy makers, health care experts – and all the other health care stakeholders have concerns and…
Read More »Tom Perrotta Notable fiction writers Ann Hood (“The Red Thread”), Tom Perrotta (“Little Children”), Anita Shreve (“A Change of Altitude”), and Andre Dubus III (“The Garden of Last Days”) will talk about “Art and Commerce” at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival…
Read More »News Release from Preservation Massachusetts, Old City Hall, 45 School Street, Boston, MA 02108, 617-723-3383, www.preservationmass.org Contact: Jim Igoe or Erin Kelly, 617-723-3383 PAWTUCKET DAM LISTED AMONGST MASSACHUSETTS’ MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC RESOURCES: Landmark 19th Century Dam Facing Irreversible Damage in Proposed Hydroelectric Project “The Pawtucket Dam in Lowell has been…
Read More »Save the Date as the commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial begins in Lowell. The Lowell Historical Society & The Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Series Present Sunday October 3rd at 12 noon Lowell Memorial Auditorium-Hall of Flags 50 Merrimack St. Lowell MA 01852 Prelude to Civil War Join author and…
Read More »From AOL News, here’s a summary of six items related to the new health care reform legislation that are set to take effect in about a week. Read the news item here.
Read More »At a time when another Merrimack Valley hospital and health care system – Cartis Christi Holy Famly Hospital – is in the midst of a possible sale to a for-profit capital management entity, Lawrence General Hospital is forging a different kind of partnership. Articles in both the Boston Globe and the Eagle-Tribune…
Read More »Lowell’s own Roger Brunelle, who invented the guided tours of Kerouac’s literary sites in Lowell, will lead several tours during the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, including “Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night” on Friday, Oct. 1, at 6.30 pm. Explore many of the locations written about…
Read More »The editorial in today’s Boston Globe addresses the process for choosing the next President of the University of Massachusetts system. Charging that procedures of the past smack of at least the perception of manipulation, the editorial touts what purports to be a different approach to replacing retiring President Jack Wilson.…
Read More »Alan Lightman of MIT, the author of the best-selling “Einstein’s Dreams” and other works will read from “Mr. g: A Novel about the Creation” on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 3.30 pm, in Alumni Hall, One University Avenue, on the North Campus of UMass Lowell. Last May, Lightman received an honorary…
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