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Folklorist Maggie Holtzberg of Lowell National Historical Park and the Massachusetts Cultural Council posted many photographs with commentary from the recent Lowell Folk Festival on her blog Keepers of Tradition, which you can find on the rh.com blogroll to the right on the home page. Here’s the connection.
Read More »A Currier & Ives drawing of the Battle of Cedar Mountain on Aug. 9, 1862. Fourteen Lowell soldiers died (taken from Lowell Sun website) In today’s Lowell Sun, longtime staff writer and citizen historian Dave Peaver continues his coverage of Lowell and the Civil War. His focus today is on…
Read More »Read the report from AOL/Huffington Post.
Read More »The public is invited to the rescheduled release of Lowell poet Jacqueline Malone’s book “All Waters Run to Lethe” on September 11, 2011 at 2 p.m., at 153 Sanders Avenue in Lowell. RSVP to mlchapman@comcast.net, if you plan to attend. Malone’s book includes poems about memory and Alzheimer’s disease. The…
Read More »This week’s New Yorker magazine includes a “Talk of the Town” piece by Elizabeth Kolbert about a recent field trip to Mt. Greylock in western Mass. that recreates the July 1844 climb of Henry David Thoreau, described in “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.” Today’s NYTimes has a brief…
Read More »Read the latest from NASA on today’s planned launch of the Juno spacecraft for its journey to Jupiter five years from now. “Juno will help us understand how the solar system formed, and how all the planets formed, from the solar nebula some 4.5bn years ago,” said Jack Connerney, deputy…
Read More »Here’s the latest from the Wall Street Journal on the disaster in the stock market today. Get the WSJ if you want more. Subscription required online also.
Read More »This is an extraordinary announcement from Forbes Magazine. San Jose Calif, Boulder Colo., Framingham Mass., Huntsville Ala., and Durham N.C. are the five regions listed as more Geeky than Lowell (figures based on percentage of workers in science, technology, engineering, and math-based jobs). See the list here. Both the City Manager…
Read More »Florence Marion was a charming, enthusiastic, determined, untiring maven of the arts and culture scene in Lowell for many years. Her contributions were honored and remembered with a bronze plaque installed at the corner entry way to Boardinghouse Park – a musical hotspot – in downtown Lowell. While bronze is…
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