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‘Massachusetts Mills’ by Richard Marion
“Massachusetts Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2012. This is purple loosestrife season in the valley. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Helping the President in New Hampshire
According to the Boston Globe today, the Obama for America campaign needs help in New Hampshire because a lot of the experienced Democratic political activists in Massachusetts are signed up for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I’ve had a few people speak to me in the past month, asking how they…
Read More »UML Emerging Technology Center
UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center by night from University Crossing. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Music and Theatre in the Greater Merrimack Valley.
Last Thursday and again tonight I was in the audience for local musical theater. Last week it was the Lexington Youth Theatre group’s performance of The Wizard of Oz at the Grace Chapel – tonight it was The Greater Lowell Music Threatre performance of The Music Man in Concert. The…
Read More »THE MUSIC MAN Opens Tonight at Durgin Hall, UMass Lowell
Nancye Tuttle in the SUN wrote about the cultural entrepreneurs of the Greater Lowell Music Theatre—Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company—whose concert production of THE MUSIC MAN opens tonight at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall (7.30 pm curtain), with a second show on Saturday at the same time. Lots of advance tickets…
Read More »Steve Kornacki of Salon and MSNBC visits Lowell
Steve Kornacki (center) with cameraman John-Carlos Estrada and NBCUniversal Senior Producer Brian Nerkowski. Steve is senior political writer at Salon.com and co-hosts of the Cycle on MSNBC paying a visit to UMass Lowell Libraries Special Collections at the Center for Lowell History to examine documents and artifacts from the Paul…
Read More »A New Blog in Town
There’s a new blog in town – Room 50 which has “alive, unique and inspiring tales from the Office of the Mayor, Lowell, Massachusetts.” The inaugural post, written by first-day-on-the-job mayoral aide, Jennifer Myers, tells the tale of Dr. Moses Greeley Parker, not for his accomplishments in the field of…
Read More »Palmer Street Fire Station during Lowell Folk Festival
Palmer Street Fire Station during the Lowell Folk Festival July 29, 20012 The Palmer Street Fire Station was also known as the Central Fire Station and was designed by Merrill and Cutler and erected in 1889 by the Lowell firm of Ladd and Conant. Photo and text by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Folk Festival Notes
We were lucky about the weather, given the unsettled skies all weekend. Twenty-six years later, the event feels more like a street festival than a music and dance festival, which is fine. The audience is determining what the experience will be. Food from around the world, sidewalk entertainers, storefront buzz,…
Read More »2012 Lowell Folk Festival
The 2012 Lowell Folk Festival ended several hours ago and I want to record my observations before they fade. My vantage point was different this year. I had volunteered to staff the Elizabeth Warren information table in the Free Speech area in front of Lowell City Hall. I was there…
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