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For the past three days, UMass Lowell’s Center for Arts and Ideas hosted its first visiting artist, Lynda Barry, an award-winning author, comic strip artist, painter, and teacher. She met with students in their classes, gave a talk to a standing-room-only sized audience in O’Leary Library, and taught a workshop about stories and…
Read More »Historian, poet and occasional contributor to this site Paul Hudon will read from his recently published collection of poems, All in Good Time, tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library. The Library’s blog describes the book as a “journey across a full year chronicled in daily…
Read More »Back on September 22 of this year, author Chaim Rosenberg spoke at the Pollard Memorial Library about his book, “The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817” which is about the innovative industrialist for whom are city is named. Phil Lupsiewicz of the Lowell National Park was there with…
Read More »This is an excerpt from a poetic sketch titled “Old Love-Light” by nineteen-year-old Jack Kerouac. October was his favorite month. In “On the Road,” he wrote: “In inky night we crossed New Mexico; at gray dawn it was Dalhart, Texas; in the bleak Sunday afternoon we rode through one Oklahoma flat-town after…
Read More »While I video recorded the opening and closing statements of all the candidates at the United Teachers of Lowell candidates forum last night (see previous posts for council candidates and school committee coming maybe tomorrow night), the candidates were also asked questions of varying relevance by a panel. I didn’t…
Read More »UMass Lowell Health and Social Sciences Building, South Campus. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Here are the opening and closing statements of the second group of city council candidates from last night’s forum sponsored by the United Teachers of Lowell: [youtube]OEXAEwzCFUI[/youtube] [youtube]0WwfQOJmak8[/youtube]
Read More »Here are the opening statements and the closing statements of the first group of city council candidates from last night’s forum sponsored by the United Teachers of Lowell: [youtube]DA_stwp3B6w[/youtube] [youtube]mITlhiAXieM[/youtube]
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries awarded grant from ALA and NEH to host Civil War reading and discussion series LOWELL, MA – University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries received a $3,000 grant from the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to host “Let’s Talk About…
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