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In a season of commencement speeches, here’s a memorable bit of speechifying from the world of movies: Network Actor Peter Finch in the film “Network,” a role for which he won an Oscar.
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‘On the Road’ Film News Update in Variety
Film distributors far and wide are signing deals to show the film adaptaton of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” in their countries. No US distributor yet, oddly enough. Read the update in the entertainment industry sheet Variety, picked up from Tess A. on Facebook.
Read More »She Made A Difference – Mary J. Bacigalupo Awards Tomorrow Night
* Noted in today’s Lowell Sun about an event scheduled for tomorrow night – The Lowell Citywide Parent Council will host its Mary J. Bacigalupo “You Make a Difference” Awards Night on Monday at the Stoklosa Middle School, 560 Broadway St., at 7:30 p.m. Who is Mary J. Bacigalupo? Back…
Read More »Lowell Historical Society Annual Meeting today
The Lowell Historical Society will hold its annual meeting today. The meeting itself begins at 1 pm, but it will be followed at 1:30 pm by a public program on “Civil War Stories” about Lowell. This program will consist of a panel discussion featuring Jack Herlihy of the Lowell National…
Read More »“Doors Open Lowell” a big success
The Middlesex Superior Courthouse in Lowell was one of 31 historic buildings open to the public this weekend during Doors Open Lowell. With nearly 60 people visiting the courthouse between 10 am and 1 pm, the event was a huge success from our perspective. An informal survey disclosed that the…
Read More »Merrimack Street Crosswalk
Merrimack Street crosswalk by Tony Sampas
Read More »LTC opens renovated facility
Last night Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, the city’s public access cable TV station, held the grand opening of its new/renovated facility on Market Street. In its original configuration, LTC occupied a ground floor portion of the refurbished mill building and a second floor portion that was offset from the ground floor.…
Read More »Congresswoman E. N. Rogers Champions Women in the United States Army
On this day – May 14, 1942, a bill was passed in the US Congress creating the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The bill was introduced by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell Massachusetts. From the official biography of Rogers from “Women in Congress”: Congresswoman Rogers’s crowning legislative achievements came…
Read More »May 13, 1861: Ben Butler seizes Baltimore
Less than a month after the Lowell-based Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment had to fight its way through a pro-secessionist mob in Baltimore to make it through to Washington, Ben Butler acted decisively and on his own initiative to wrest that key city away from the rebel sympathizers, putting it…
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