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I didn’t know anything about Moe. before 7.30 p.m. tonight. It was hot as hell at Boarding House Park, and Moe. brought out the mellowest crowd of the year. The first half of the concert featured the highly anticipated long jams and as soon as the sun set a light show…
Read More »A different view of the Lawrence Mills, by Tony Sampas
Read More »Seneca Falls Convention – 1848 On this day – July 19, 1848 – the first United States women’s rights convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York. It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Boston-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her speaking…
Read More »The Wilkinson and Slater Mills along the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, RI The AP is reporting that the Slater Mill and environs now known as the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor has received a favorable report from the National Park Service to move up to the…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventures down an alley
Read More »1. It’s not light reading, but the Vietnam War novel “Matterhorn” by Karl Marlentes has been good reading for long sunny weekend sessions in the backyard for the past couple of weeks. I had a difficult time climbing the front half of the Matterhorn narrative, so to speak, so I skimmed and…
Read More »From boston.com there’s an Associated Press report on the latest developments in the struggle over raising the national debt ceiling in Washington, D.C. Read the article here, and get the Globe if you want more. Note the quote from President Obama to a group of students as he was talking about the…
Read More »This is a publicity picture from Austin, Texas, but you get the idea looking at this image that the Court Yard Hounds are all in with their instruments and voices when they hit the stage. Martie Maguire, left, and Emily Robison did not for a moment trade on their fame…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day July 16, 1997, a tentative deal was announced by Borden to save the famous Prince pasta plant in Lowell. Hoping that the “Spaghettiville” plant would continue to be one of the city’s largest employers, Senator Ted Kennedy acquired federal funds targeted to…
Read More »John F. Kerry (D) Massachusetts is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We know him well in the Greater Lowell environs – as a war hero, an anti-war activist, the Democratic nominee for congress from the 5th district, as an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, as Lt.…
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