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The World War Two veterans monument on the grounds of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, by Tony Sampas.
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Filmmaker Henry Ferrini to be Honored by UMass Lowell
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 »‘Atlantic’ Marks 153rd B-day w/ Poems by Gr. Merrimack Valley-5th Cong. District-Concord/Merrimack Watershed Author
November 10, 2010
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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 »Veterans Day observances
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)
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 »Corey’s City
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 »Creative Destruction
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…
Read More »String Project 10th Anniv. Concert with Harlem Quartet
Sunday, Nov. 14, 3 pm Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the UMass Lowell String Project as everyone proudly reflects on the accomplishments of the String Kids and the continued growth of the organization. Special guests will be the Harlem Quartet, a group of innovative and highly engaging young Black and Latino musical…
Read More »Middlesex Village WWII Monument
Tony Sampas visits Hadley Field at the corner of Baldwin and Middlesex Streets to photograph the Middlesex Village World War Two monument.
Read More »‘Cut from American Cloth’ (2)
Cut from American Cloth (2) . The land to the east of my house steps down to the western bank of the Concord and until recent times was called Wamesit Hill, though the only Native American in sight now is the one positioned at the center of the state emblem…
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