Lowell

“My Warhol Period” by Tony Sampas

[original caption] Paul E. Tsongas (1941-1997) “Running Hard” in September of 1974 for the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District seat, U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, defeating Republican incumbent Paul W. Cronin [Tony Sampas comment] While working with the Paul Tsongas Collection at UMass Lowell Libraries’ Center for Lowell History…

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I Want My Green TV

Who knew? There’s a sustainability trap in the cable TV box. Front page report in NYTimes today about the energy-sucking cable TV boxes and allied home entertainment gadgets that are not designed with “green” in mind at all “because nobody asked us to use less [energy],” according to one “box…

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