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Shirley Leung of the Boston Globe went to The Olympia for lunch to learn what the locals are saying about the Demoulas-Market Basket Affair. Read her column here, and get the Globe if you want more of this kind of newspapering.
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Congratulations and thanks to all involved for another successful Lowell Folk Festival. I attended on both Saturday and Sunday with vastly different experiences but that was because of the heavy rain that fell midday on Sunday. Hopefully the financial impact was less severe than the weather. I am sorry I…
Read More »In the rh.com archives, I found another post I had written about Harry de Metropolis in 2008. Time flies. Some of the information repeats what I have in my new post, but there is enough different material that I thought I’d post it as a companion piece to give a…
Read More »One of the lost poets of Lowell is Harry de Metropolis, born Sept. 22, 1913, in Lowell. He graduated from Lowell High School (1931) and West Point (1939), and served in the European and Pacific theaters in World War II. In 1952, the William-Frederick Press of N.Y. published a collection…
Read More »My staples are still holding, so looking for fresh food today, I started locally at the East Street Farm Stand (Farmer Dave’s) in Tewksbury… my cache was a few small peaches, tomatoes, butter beans, a pepper, 6 ears of corn… the stand was busy and had just opened for the…
Read More »Social media especially Facebook and Twitter and other technology has brought a added dimension to celebrating and sharing the Lowell Folk Festival. Personally, my thanks to Facebook friends who posted spectacular photos from the opening parade and kick-off of the 28th Annual Lowell Folk Festival! Deb Belanger, Phil Lupsiewicz , Jennifer…
Read More »Greater Lowell Music Theatre performances on Friday, Aug. 1, at 7.30 pm; Saturday, Aug 2, at 7.30 pm; and Sunday, Aug 3, at 2 pm in Durgin Concert Hall at UMass Lowell, 35 Wilder Street. Parking available in the lot at Wilder and Broadway on the University’s South Campus. For…
Read More »Last night the Lowell Election Commission formally voted to change eleven of the twenty polling places used in the last election. Although the press release from the Commission doesn’t mention it, one of the main reasons for the change was that some of the former locations were in social clubs…
Read More »An excerpt from the chapter about the Lowell Folk Festival in my forthcoming book, Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park, which will be available from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in September. The book was produced in collaboration with the National Park Service. Here is…
Read More »This is a re-post from July 2013, pulled from the richardhowe.com archives—PM The media coverage of family friction involving the owners of the Market Basket supermarket empire sent me back in the Time Tunnel to the mid-1960s, maybe 1965, when the Ford Mustang was the sports car of the moment…
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