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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 »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 »Tony Sampas preserves views that are all too familiar to us these days.
Read More »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.
Read More »Big. Huge. Vast. Jumbo. Massive. A cornucopia of American art. My wife and I met two friends for Sunday brunch at the Museum of Fine Arts. We hadn’t been to the MFA since the opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing and Shapiro Family Courtyard last November. To…
Read More »Last evening I attended an excellent performance of “Our Town”, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, at Lowell High School’s Little Theater. Under the direction of Sharon Bisantz, the Student Theater Company did a masterful job of presenting this classic that is set in a fictional New Hampshire town near…
Read More »Former Lowell Sun reporter and prolific contributor to the Sunday Column (back in the day) -Kevin Landrigan – now covers the NH State House writing reports and a Sunday political column for the Telegraph with the same in-depth attention he gave back in his Sun-days. He is definitely in-gear to cover the the quadrennial …
Read More »The walking in the city is treacherous this morning. Ice of every variety—pure, crunchy, fat, layered, crusted—on every surface. Outside the Tedeschi Food Shop on Appleton Street the mood was somber among the men near the front door. Inside, the Sunday Sun stacked hgh in the rack read “Lowell Shelter Worker Slain.”…
Read More »From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, a column about history and the trouble in Egypt by an international relations scholar. I picked this up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »This is Catholic Schools Week. Catholic schools have a long and rich tradition in Lowell and in the Merrimack Valley. Of those schools still open and active: St. Patrick’s School in the Acre opened in 1852, the Immaculate Conception School in 1880, St. Michael’s in 1889, St. Jeanne d’Arc School…
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