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Remnick on President Obama’s Speech in Tucson
The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
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Painter George Condo Profiled in The New Yorker
George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
Read More »Robert Caret Chosen as University of Massachusetts President
The Boston Globe and the Herald are both reporting that Robert Caret – president of Towson University in suburban Baltimore – has been chosen unanimously by the Board of Trustees as the new President of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. Caret has New England connections – he received degrees at…
Read More »RIP Mary Boutselis Sampas
This message and comment on the late Mary Boutselis Sampas was written by our friend Mehmed Ali. With his permission it is reprinted here: Brother Tony, I heard that our own Gal Friday Mary Boutselis Sampas passed away yesterday. Last time I was home in October we had a chance to…
Read More »Holy Trinity and “Delphi” in the snow
Tony Sampas ventured up Lewis Street after the snow had stopped
Read More »President Kennedy’s Archives on the Web
The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »A Message About Guns from Sarah Brady
See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
Read More »Mary Sampas Remembered
Mary Sampas – longtime Lowell Sun reporter and columnist and the grand dame among friends and her community – died yesterday at Saints Medical Center at the age of 93. Friend and Sun associate Nancye Tuttle remembers her here on her blog – Nancye’s World. The Sun has a front page story…
Read More »No school in Lowell on Thursday
With the twenty inches of snow – shown in these pictures shared by regular reader Paul S – that fell on Lowell just ending at around dusk, the school department wisely canceled school for tomorrow. I had to take the car out twice today – once late in the afternoon…
Read More »On being “non-essential”
Tony Sampas observes that being deemed “non-essential” has some benefits: you can stay home and take great photographs of the snow through the window of your home.
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