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George DeLuca (Come to Lowell) took a tour of the under-renovation St Jean Baptiste Church on upper Merrimack Street and sent along these notes. From my conversation with George, it was abundantly clear that he was very enthused about the renovation results. With so many former churches in Lowell, finding…
Read More »One of the most important American painters of our day is George Condo, who has deep roots in Chelmsford and at UMass Lowell, where his father, Pasquale Condo, was a longtime professor of mathematics. Condo was profiled by Jim Sullivan in yesterday’s Boston Globe. One early influence on Condo was Kerouac: “But as a…
Read More ». Budget crisis looms Nuke radiation drifts here As Red Sox hit swoon . —Ray LaPorte (c) 2011
Read More »The Globe is reporting on BusinessUpdates that Steward Health Care Systems announced this morning that they have a letter of intent to purchase yet another hospital in the Merrimack Valley. Saints Medical Center in Lowell seems to find Steward “a good fit” for the hospital’s “mission, vision and values” according…
Read More »We’re all gazing skyward these days – – – here Tony Sampas captures a sunset in the Acre
Read More »Red sky at morning, sailor take warning . . . I noticed a red glow around the east-facing window shade of my kitchen earlier this morning, peeked out, and was amazed to see the colorful sky shown above looking back at me. Unfortunately, a morning palette of this variety, at…
Read More »Over 500 people rocked the Lowell Memorial Auditorium as BeatleJuice wow the crowd. As part of Middlesex Community College’s 40th anniversary celebration the highly regarded Beatles cover band played for over three hours. A fun time was had by all.
Read More »I attended today’s Parker Lecture at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center and very much enjoyed listening along with about 50 others to Tom Sexton read many of his Lowell poems. The topics, characters, and language involved transported me back to younger days making the room sound much like a…
Read More »On HuffingtonPost – Zoe Triska tell us the results of HuffPo’s query of readers about books they are currently reading published over fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly given yet another movie version – Jane Eyre was a popular choice. Of the nineteen books and their covers on the wesite, Jack…
Read More »Of all the famous and infamous experiences of Lowell’s Benjamin Butler during his service as a Union General during the American Civil War, perhaps the most important was a decision he made in May of 1861, just a month into the war and just a day after he took command…
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