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A community forum to discuss the future of the Smith Baker Center as a community and cultural center is set for Tuesday, April 28, 5.30 pm, at the Senior Center on Broadway St. The top image is a conceptual design showing large identity banners featuring Jack Kerouac, Bette…
Read More »This is the third post in a series drawn from Artifacts, the newsletters of Art Alive!, an artists cooperative that was active in Lowell in the early 1980s.—PM . ARTIFACTS, Volume 1, Number 5 (1981) Help: On Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m, Art Alive! will hold…
Read More »I took notes at this event in 1985 and wrote the essay soon after. It was later revised and then published in my collection of Lowell writings called What Is the City? (2006). I saw a Facebook photo from the ceremony at Roberto Clemente Park today, a picture of the “Food…
Read More »Here’s the second of four posts drawn from issues of Artifacts, the 1981 newsletter of Art Alive!, an artists cooperative that was active in Lowell in the early 1980s.–PM . ARTIFACTS, Volume 1, Number 3 (Selections) Exhibit News: One-Person Show by Betsey Bolton till March 9; Area Art Alive! Exhibits…
Read More »The following extracts are from four issues of the “Artifacts” newsletter of the Art Alive! artists cooperative that operated in Lowell in the early 1980s (formed some time before June 1980). I recently found these documents in my files, an incomplete set of Volume 1 of “Artifacts.” The four issues…
Read More »Tonight at 7pm I’ll be speaking about Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox which happened 150 years ago today. The event is at the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell (which is also the sponsor and host of the event) in the 2nd floor reference room, right beneath this giant painting…
Read More »Jim Peters has another installment of his review of events in Lowell in April 1865. Also, remember that the Pollard Memorial Library will present a free program this coming Thursday (April 9) at 7 pm commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The event is free, open to…
Read More »Another in a series of articles about Lowell at the end of the Civil War, 150 years ago this month: The Confederate Army was far from finished at the beginning of the month of April, 1865. In fact, it was said that they had “some of the finest fighting men…
Read More »I learned this poem from a friend in the mid-1970s. We were part of a bi-weekly writing workshop at the Andover, Mass., public library called The Poets’ Lab. The group stayed together for three or four years, branching out to do readings in most of the towns and cities in…
Read More »Enjoy this cross-post from St. Patrick Church, St. Patrick Cemetery and Acre Irish historian David McKean from his LowellIrish blog as he shares an Easter “Acre Memory” ~ An Acre memory: Easter There was a strict rule in my home on the corner of Broadway and Walker that you can’t…
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