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City Hall in the snow
Tony Sampas ventured out into the snow to capture these pictures of City Hall
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Judith Dickerman-Nelson’s Prose Poems
Judith Dickerman-Nelson of Lowell and Vermont has three prose poems about the Cambodian refugee experience in the online journal Blue Lake Review. Read them here, and support the journal if you appreciate the work.
Read More »Prose (see Marie’s post below) to Prosaic (trash pick up)
Note this alert from the Lowell City Manager’s blog: Winter Curbside Delay Due to the Winter Storm, curbside collection (of trash & recycling), for Wednesday 2/2, will be delayed by one day.Please do not place carts and bins curbside until Thursday morning; this will give streets crews time to open…
Read More »The Lowell Connection: Jackie Kennedy Reads Kerouac
From the “Vanity Fair” photo archives of thirteen classic images “Meet the Kennedys” showcased in October 2007 in a Web Exclusive. This image – Spring 1960: As they fly from one campaign stop to another, Jackie looks up from Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums to speak with her husband, who…
Read More »UMass Lowell Social Justice Series
From the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office: Celebration Honors Black History Month, Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “A performance by a nationally known poet, a screening of a documentary, a visit to the Black History Trail and a leadership workshop are just some of the events scheduled for the…
Read More »Tonight on WCVB-TV’s Chronicle: See the Real World of Lowell’s “The Fighter”
Tonight Chronicle – WCVB/Channel 5’s iconic television magazine program – tells the tale of the real people and the real world behind the awarding-winning, made-in-Lowell movie – “The Fighter.” From the Chronicle website: It’s taken in more than 70 million dollars at the box office, and took home seven Oscar…
Read More »Lowell Train Crash 1955
This Universal Newsreel from August 25, 1955 deals with several topics including a train derailment in Lowell near the Concord River. Unfortunately, I had trouble editing the video and the Lowell item doesn’t start until 3:25 into it. Anyway, it is a great watch.
Read More »No school in Lowell
An email alert arrived at 5:55 am and the robocall just came in at 6:02 am – no school in Lowell on Tuesday. Not a flake has fallen yet, so this is a prospective cancellation but also a wise one. Several years ago school was held in the face of…
Read More »Signs of Winter
Tony Sampas preserves views that are all too familiar to us these days.
Read More »Education, Creativity, Tiger Moms, Facebook
See this nugget over at Cliff’s place in which Larry Summers takes on the Tiger Mom-mom Amy Chau on the topic of strict study-and-learning practices vs. creativity.
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