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More than one hundred Greater Lowell veterans, their families, elected officials and others from the community gathered at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this morning for a Veterans Day ceremony. Greater Lowell Veterans Council Commander Bob Cronin, shown above on the stage of the Auditorium, served as Master of Ceremonies. State…
Read More »Univerity of Massassachusetts Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan announced his plans yesterday to make “student life” more welcoming and comfortable for UML student veterans by opening a new student veterans center on campus. From today’s Lowell SUN: UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan said yesterday the university is planning to open a…
Read More »Lowell photographer Anne Ruthman yesterday documented the Veterans Day ceremony at UMass Lowell. See her fine images here on her blog.
Read More »The World War Two veterans monument on the grounds of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, by Tony Sampas.
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Honors Program: “The Honors Program is proud to welcome the award-winning filmmaker Henry Ferrini to campus on November 18 as this year’s Honors Community Fellow. Ferrini will screen his 30-minute film, Lowell Blues, at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street in Lowell, at 4:00, followed…
Read More »This blog is in good historical company as a publication that regularly features poetry. Read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s four poems in the first issue of the Atlantic magazine, published on November 9, 1857.
Read More »The Greater Lowell Veterans Council will honor those who have served in the military with a ceremony tomorrow that begins at 10 am in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags with a speaking program to be immediately followed by a wreath laying ceremony at the various monuments on the…
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (3) . On a siding just north of the train station, there’s a scrap train—ground-up fenders and stoves and corroded pipes en route to the smelter, the chopped ham of American industry. In the rail yard, freight-car murals in graffiti code, the blocky colored letters…
Read More »I missed this long post on cities on October 29 over at our blogging colleague Corey Sciuto’s place, and don’t think rh.com linked to it otherwise, so here’s the one click access to a bunch of interesting ideas and observations about cities and urban life.
Read More »I don’t enjoy George Will’s columns the way I did when he started writing, but this column is less about his opinions than about the mind of Robert Weissenstein of Credit Suisse Private Banking. Read about the rapid changes in products and processes in our high-speed society. I picked this…
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