We are reminded by an article in today’s Globe here, that on this Saturday September 11th the 31st Annual Banjo and Fiddle Contest holds sway at Lowell’s premier outdoor concert venue – Boardinghouse Park in the historic downtown. Imagine it has been 31 years since Park Ranger and musician Alex Demas put…
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There will be two tours of the historic Lowell Cemetery this weekend. The first on Friday, September 10 at 1 pm. The second on Saturday, September 11 at 10 am. All tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance which is right next to Shedd Park. The tours are free, open…
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The regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held this Saturday morning September 11, 2010 at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. This is the first GLAD meeting since the summer break! The upcoming primary and impending November elections are at…
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Read E. J. Dionne’s latest take on the recalibrated mid-term election battle in this pick-up of his regular column from truth-out.org. E. J. says President Obama has moved to reshape the narrative just about nine weeks from voting day. What’s great about this link is that it includes the full…
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We don’t like it, but we write about guns and shootings on this blog because that’s part of what happens in our lives. Fortunately, we live in a place that offers many ways to uplift and enrich us day to day. Dick wrote about the Bread and Roses Festival in Lawrence on Labor…
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To commemorate Labor Day this year I decided to visit the 26th annual Bread & Roses Festival in Lawrence, an event that celebrates the gains made by workers as a result of their nationally significant strike in the city back in 1912. Even before I left Lowell, however, I was…
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OK, now we’re talking. For Labor Day, President Obama called on Congress to support a $50 billion program to modernize US infrastructure over the next six years. Read the report from AOL.COM here. I heard the President was a pretty good poker player back in Chicago. It sounds like he’s…
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Here is the lead editorial from the September 7, 1992 edition of the New York Times – A Labor Day piece about the recently opened Boott Cotton Mill Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts: Youngsters who are made to troop through America’s historic landmarks might reasonably conclude that in the past, rich…
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The following might sound like it came out of the movie “Dave,” in which a presidential look-alike who runs a temp agency (Kevin Kline) winds up being secretly installed as president after the real prez has a stroke. At first manipulated by an evil chief of staff (Frank Langella), “Dave”…
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Today’s Globe has the first in what it promises will be “a series of occasional articles” about the University of Massachusetts. Read about UMass Amherst’s struggle to improve itself and compete against other public universities in states near and far in the first article, and consider buying the Globe if…
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