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A snow bank near UMass Lowell
With another 12 inches on the way, Tony Sampas reminds us of the amount of snow already on the ground.
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Uncle Dave Talks About Talent
January 25, 2011
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PaulM
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NYTimes columnist David Brooks today says it’s imperative that 21st-century America be a talent magnet to stay at the front of the pack in the global economic and social long-distance race. For our purposes on this blog, substitute Lowell and/or Merrimack Valley every time he mentions America, and think about…
Read More »Nominees Sought for Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Awards
January 24, 2011
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Marie
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Pawtucket Congregational Church in Lowell, Massachuestt – National Register of Historic Places -2007 Today Secretary of State William F. Galvin – who also chairs the Massachusetts Historical Commission -announced that the Historical Commission is accepting nominations for the 33rd Annual Preservation Awards Program. This award program recognizes preservation projects and individuals that…
Read More »Joseph A. Nesmith on Henry Livermore Abbott (1931)
“. . . There was at the time of the Civil War, a group of young men and women hardly more than boys and girls, who frequented our house, played croquet on the lawn and bowled in the long, low bowling alley; old when I remember it, and covered from…
Read More »Tom Sexton & His Father’s Ghost
Tom Sexton sent a new poem from the coast of Maine where he’s wintering more easily than in the Alaskan icebox. He’s working on a new book of poems. Lowell (and all that that contains) is the subject. Look for the new collection in the fall. In the meantime, mark…
Read More »North Common Village
A study of light and shadow by Tony Sampas, featuring Lowell’s North Common Village
Read More »January 24, 2011 – Coldest Day of the Year
At 5 am the thermometer read -3 degrees so I bundled up and headed out for a walk. With the right clothes, it wasn’t too bad, but with no fleece for the dog, we cut the walk short and returned a half hour later. I thought the temperature had gone…
Read More »Lowell SUN Writers Win NENPA Awards
Next month the NENPA – the New England Newspaper and Press Association – will recognize writers, editors and photojournalists from the Lowell SUN with nine awards. The association will gather for its annual convention and dinner at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel on February 11-12. While the final placement has not…
Read More »Review of MRT’s “Tryst” by Nancye Tuttle
Nancye Tuttle calls Tryst “captivating, frightening and all-enveloping. Read her review of the Merrimack Repertory Theater’s latest play on Nancye’s blog.
Read More »Abbott Grave, Lowell Cemetery
Marie just did a post about efforts to save the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, the place where Lowell resident Henry Abbott was killed in action. Above is a photo of his monument in the Lowell Cemetery, which sits alongside an identical monument for his brother Edward, who was killed earlier…
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