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This reminder was sent by Jim Dyment of VYU arts magazine and the Whistler House Museum of Art: “Another neighborhood comes back to life as the Appleton Mills building on Jackson Street nears completion. It’s been under construction for months and this project is one more step in the process…
Read More »The word downtown is that Steve O’Connor’s collection of short stories, “Smokestack Lightning,” is one of the hot local gift items for last minute shoppers. It’s a little big to go in a stocking, but fits nicely under the tree. Available at Barnes and Noble, Brew’d, Dharma Buns, Welle’s Emporium,…
Read More »Tony Sampas photographed the Isso Shri Swaminarayan Temple at 1705 Middlesex Street during last night’s snowfall. This building formerly housed a Good Will warehouse facility and might be a familiar sight to anyone who has spent some time at the Edwards Street soccer field.
Read More »It seems somehow appropriate that on this, the first day of winter, we finally got some snow. Certainly there’s not much of it – just a dusting. But at least it’s visible. Last night I began to wonder if the weather forecasters had messed up with their nonchalant predictions. On…
Read More »America’s First Poet, she is called. Anne Bradstreet of North Andover, originally part of Andover in the mid-1600’s when she moved to the frontier with her family from Cambridge (then Newtowne). She had sailed from England in 1630 with her husband to avoid religious persecution as Puritans. She was 18…
Read More »With great anticipation Paramount released nation-wide the Lowell based movie The Fighter last weekend. To put it in perspective…The highest grossing film over the weekend was Tron Legacy earning $43.6 million; second highest Yogi Bear with $16.7 million and third was The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader…
Read More »Several weeks ago, Tony Sampas shared some photos of the Francis Gate by night. He returned to the gatehouse during the day and took these pictures.
Read More »This essay was first heard as a radio essay on the “Sunrise” program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I shared this essay with rh.com readers last…
Read More »[youtube]PuPxA7w3oFs[/youtube] Friday night was the annual Lowell High School Winter Concert featuring various student bands and choruses. The above video shows the finale of “Bells of Joy” by the combined concert band and concert chorus.
Read More »I joined dozens of early movie goers at the 11:10 a.m. showing of “The Fighter” today. The movie is fantastic. If “awesome” was part of my vocabulary, that’s also how I’d describe it. When articles began dribbling out that the movie or at least some of the actors in it…
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