What? “A Community Briefing on Pawtucket Falls Overlook/Spalding House Park Developments.” Learn about exciting plans for improvements and upgrades that will enhance public access to and visibility of these significant historic locations on both sides of the Merrimack River at the falls. Where? Spalding House Park behind the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust’s…
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The Lowell Film Festival continues today with a walking tour of Civil War Lowell beginning at 6 pm on the steps of the Pollard Memorial Library and continues with the film “Traces of the Trade” at the National Park Visitor Center on Market Street. Another walking tour will take place…
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Tony Sampas captured this picture of a dogwood tree in bloom on the grounds of the Tsongas Center
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[youtube]9r72aGkShD4[/youtube] The 4th Annual Lowell Film Festival begins tomorrow (Thursday, April 28). The full schedule is available on the Festival’s website. In conjunction with the films being shown, I will conduct walking tours of “Civil War Lowell” on Thursday night at 6 pm (beginning at the Ladd & Whitney monument);…
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named a new leader for its famous Media Lab. Read the NY Times report about Joichi “Joi” Ito, who at 44 years old is already a legend in the worlds of technology and venture capital. Consider buying the NYTimes if you want more of this kind of reporting.…
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Check out Doors Open Lowell at the website here: http://www.doorsopenlowell.org/ and become a Doors Open Lowell Facebook friend here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Doors-Open-Lowell/124484050963278?sk=info. Look for the full schedule of dates, days and times to be posted by May1st. Here are a few teasers from the roster: the Claflin Block; Old City Hall; Acre churches;…
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Stephen Pennell, University of Massachusetts – Lowell – Chair, Department of Mathematics Ph.D., Brown University Email: Stephen_Pennell@uml.edu Office: Olney 428-V Phone: (978) 934-2710. Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, fluid mechanics Home Page: http://faculty.uml.edu/spennell/pennells.htm Each year Rate My Professors, the internet’s largest destination-site for professor ratings, compiles a list of…
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The final poetry event for National Poetry Month at UMass Lowell is set for Thursday, April 28, at 7 pm, when Lowell native Michael Casey and Nicholas Samaras, with family ties in Lowell, read at O’Leary Library Auditorium, 61 Wilder St, UML South Campus. The event is free and open…
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Kay Ryan (photo courtesy of Kristina Coci Hernandez) Sometimes I worry that we push too much poetry on the readers of this blog. After seeing more than 250 happy people listening to Kay Ryan read her poems last night at UMass Lowell’s O’Leary Library, I’m more encouraged than ever that poetry can…
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I spent this morning at the UMass Lowell Tsongas Center participating in the “Money Strong” Fair sponsored by Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union for the benefit of seniors at Lowell High School. It was an amazing event, one that all students (and many adults) should be required to attend. The JDCU…
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