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Greater Merrimack Valley Makes Big News Again
A swimmer from Harvard trains at Walden Pond in Concord for Olympic competition. Read Karen Crouse’s long profile of Alex Meyer in the NYTimes, and get the paper if you want more.
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Jack Kerouac ~ March 22, 1922 – October 21, 1969
J Jack Kerouac, His Life Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922, “at five o’clock in the afternoon of a red-all-over supper time” (Doctor Sax) and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 21, 1969, at the age of 47. Kerouac’s first seventeen years were those…
Read More »Sequel to “The Fighter” in Jeopardy?
Update on “The Fighter 2” – In today’s Boston Herald “Inside Track” there’s a report that a break-up in the personal relationship of “The Fighter” producer and star Mark Wahlberg and its director David O. Russell may put the anticipated sequel on the ropes. The “Track” reports the Lowell’s Mickey…
Read More »Another Redistricting Scenario – Olver vs McGovern?
October 19, 2011
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In today’s Boston Globe, senior writer Frank Phillips offers another scenario for redistricting the current ten congressional districts down to nine. While recent chatter had Stephen Lynch (Ninth District) and newbie Bill Keating (Tenth District) going head to head, the latest speculation has western Massachusetts veteran Congressman John Olver’s far-reaching…
Read More »‘Lowell Morning’ by Richard Marion
“Lowell Morning” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Lowell State Rep districts remain intact
The proposed redistricting map that was released the the legislature’s Joint Committee on Redistricting this afternoon left the three state representative seats in Lowell almost entirely intact. In fact, the only change I could see from the current district occurred in the 16th Middlesex, now represented by Tom Golden. The…
Read More »The Middlesex Canal
The following is the second in my series of posts about the canals of Lowell. The first described the Pawtucket Canal. The Proprietors of Middlesex Canal received its charter as a Massachusetts corporation on June 22, 1793, just a year after the incorporation of the group that would build the…
Read More »Claude – Achille Debussy (1862 – 1918) by Miko Kaufman
The figures beneath Debussy depict his two best-known works: “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn” and “Pelleas et Melisande.” This 1987 sculpture is located on the South Campus of UMass Lowell near Durgin Concert Hall for the Performing Arts. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »The Coffee Party: Starbucks & Co. for Jobs
Joe Nocera in the NYTimes this morning shares news about an idea that Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz and some of his people came up with as a way to stoke up the ecoomy and create jobs. He’s urging Americans to donate money that can be loaned to small businesses for the purpose…
Read More »People Will Buy What They Want to Read
There’s a lot of talk out there about books and reading being endangered by changing tastes among people. And then there was “Harry Potter” with lines around the bookstore block and six-year-olds reading hardcovers as thick as a brick. And now there’s Haruki Murakami of Japan, a literary writer selling millions of books.…
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