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Pawtucket Prism Unveiling Tuesday, November 1, 2016 4:00 p.m. – Speaking Program & Reception UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell The Pawtucket Prism sculpture was created and installed by world-renowned artist Michio Ihara in 1987 at the Lower Locks where the Pawtucket Canal and Concord…
Read More »Another essay by Bob Hodge, a 1973 graduate of Lowell High School, a 1990 graduate of University of Lowell, and one of the greatest runners to come from Lowell – ever. Bob’s previous essay, Running Down a Dream: Cohasset by the Sea Road Race, April 1978, was published on October…
Read More »Lowell’s Big Plans By James Ostis Lowell was the most significant planned industrial city in the early United States. In the 1820s, a group of Boston investors set their sights on the water power potential of the Merrimack River and systematically created a new community based on maximizing the development…
Read More »Carrying a Torch for ‘Ti Jean’ We were talking about Bob Dylan getting the Nobel Prize for Literature last week and ole Jack Kerouac having received nothing in his life by way of awards and prizes, and so my friend and I went to the famous gravesite in Edson Cemetery…
Read More »Rick Sherburne, Julie Mofford, and Tom Mofford (photo courtesy of Rick Sherburne on Facebook) We lost a poet today, Tom Mofford, husband of our occasional contributor Julie Mofford, both of them long-time friends of mine. Tom passed away this morning, I learned from Julie’s message to our mutual friend Rick…
Read More »Lowell has a great tradition of running and road races that is carried on today by Greater Lowell Road Runners. Last Sunday’s Baystate Marathon, one of the preeminent qualifying races for the Boston Marathon, is strong evidence of Lowell’s continued status as a center of running in New England. One…
Read More »Moses Greeley Parker Lectures, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2 PM Kevin Gallagher – Poetry Reading: Lords of the Loom Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St., Downtown Lowell Gallagher will read and discuss his new book, “Loom,” which traces how the men who built the backbone of American capitalism—the…
Read More »The latest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature performed at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell in 2013. He’s been to Lowell a few times before. Here’s a replay of my report.—PM Bob Dylan in Lowell, Another Side I’m glad I went down to the river last night. The…
Read More »Today’s Nobel Prize-winner Bob Dylan in Lowell in November, 1975, is seen below with fellow poet Allen Ginsberg at the Edson Cemetery grave of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), whose writings influenced the young Dylan. Bob Dylan brought his Rolling Thunder Revue to Lowell in tribute to Kerouac and performed with his…
Read More »Lowell artist Jeannine Tardiff Condon made this painting of an iconic object in downtown Lowell that is now gone. This image is from a notecard that Jeannine made for sale in her studio at the Brush Gallery and Studios at Market Mills. Excellent in drawing and painting, Jeannine was one…
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