Reminder for next GLAD Meeting TOMORROW! Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday June 16, 2012 8:00 AM Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Please join us at this meeting of area Democrats. Marie Sweeney, GLAD Chair sweeney133@verizon.net The agenda will include: election of officers; a…
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What Lies Underneath: The Story of Pawtucket Prism By Nicolas White Do not let remissive habits of the public art world fool you; Pawtucket Prism may seem like a godless specimen of plop art, but the story behind its present state of disrepair perfectly mirrors the beleaguered history of Lowell.…
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There have been several announcements recently that the city of Lowell is now using a web tool called SeeClickFix to better allow residents to communicate non-emergency problems to City Hall. A concise explanation of SeeClickFix can be found in this Wikipedia entry. You can access the site anonymously and either…
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Anyone interested in social media in Lowell should stop by Ward Eight, the (relatively) new restaurant & pub at 280 Central Street (at the corner of Central and Green in the former JJ Turner’s Pub) at 5:30 tonight. Many of the city’s most active Twitter users will be gathering there…
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We Built This City by Alex Duran Placed next to the canals that powered the city, paid for by the leaders who bettered it, and honoring the people who helped create and continue to transform it, agápetimé is a symbolically intricate contribution to the Lowell Public Art Collection. In 1988,…
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Human Construction Adds a Detour to the City of Lowell by Collette M. Marquis Carlos Dorrien’s sculpture Human Construction sits on concrete piers on either side of the Pawtucket Canal Bridge on Central Street in downtown Lowell. Installed in 1989, it is composed of a series of granite post-and-lintel stones,…
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This is the first in a series of short commentaries about the Lowell Public Art Collection by students from an Art History course taught this spring by Prof. John Christ of the UMass Lowell Cultural Studies Dept. Stele for the Merrimack By Carolyn Campbell One of the last installed pieces of…
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Ezra Pound said something like “poetry is news that stays news.” John Greenleaf Whittier made Poem of the Week in The Guardian of the UK with his “Telling the Bees.” The commentary is as interesting as the poem. Read it here–thanks to Rus Bowden on Facebook for the link. Makes…
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