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Read Rita Savard’s fine article about typewriters in our culture and, specifically, Jack Kerouac’s typewriter at the National Park’s Mogan Cultural Center museum exhibit about the immigrant history of Lowell. Filmmakers were in the city yesterday documenting the old Underwood typewriter on display with one of Kerouac’s backpacks on the…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe in the GlobeNorth section, writer Katheleen Conti writes about the current state of reclaiming, rehabbing and reuse of the mill space in the downtowns of the Merrimack Valley’s historic mills cities – Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. She notes: Mill and factory buildings that supported gateway cities…
Read More »From truth-out.org, I picked up news that Bill Moyers has a new TV program. He keeps coming back, I think, because nobody else has figured out how to do the kinds of shows he is so well known for, mixing high-minded thinking, compassionate political ideas, and entertaining broadcast methods. Read…
Read More »Tony Sampas gives us a close up of the eagle that sits high atop Lowell City Hall
Read More »A post made this afternoon on the Lowell Sun political blog criticizes Mayor Patrick Murphy for some of his selections of chairpersons for various city council subcommittees. The post, “Murphy flexes Mayoral Muscle, begins with . . . Rookie Mayor Patrick Murphy left no doubt who’s in charge when he…
Read More »“Tan Mill” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »At lunchtime today I attended a gathering sponsored by the Center City Committee at the King Star Cafe at 201 Market Street. Wedged in between the Athenian Corner and the Dubliner, I’d never visited the King Star before. My only disappointment was that I had waited this long to do…
Read More »For about a year I’ve been working with a tech-savy young man named Sam Antonaccio to find a way to use the latest communications and gaming technology to bring Lowell’s history to life for a new generation. As we wrapped up a meeting this past Saturday, Sam mentioned that he…
Read More »Superintendent Michael Creasey standing befor the LNHP float in the 2011 City of Lights Parade It was inevitable that Lowell National Historical Park Superintendent Michael Creasey would be advancing in the National Park Service. His successful session at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University along with the obvious respect his views…
Read More »James G Carney is a name that has long been familiar to me because of the Carney Medal, the award annually bestowed on the top three male and top three female students at Lowell High School. However, recent research disclosed much more about Carney that’s worth sharing. He was born…
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