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Holy Trinity facelift
Tony Sampas captures the ongoing face lift to the exterior of the Holy Trinity Church during the day and after dark
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Upcoming Free Music Events (and one that’s not free)
Bach, Dance, and Sleep: A Concert by Aaron Larget-Caplan, Oct. 20, 7 pm, Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell. Guitarist Larget-Caplan performs exotic dances, tangos, and serenades by Albeniz (Spain) and Piazzolla (Argentina), new lullabies by New England composers, and Bach fugures. This is a Parker Lectures…
Read More »Answers to yesterday’s trivia questions
11) What was the previous name for the Harvard Brewery before 1898? * The Consumers’ Brewing Company which was incorporated in 1893 12) What was the original name of the street that runs in front of the main area of the North Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell? *…
Read More »Glennie’s Ice Cream employee outing
Growing up, at least once a week in the summertime my family would load up the station wagon, pickup my grandmother, and cross the School Street Bridge to the north side of the Merrimack River so we could enjoy some Glennie’s Ice Cream (now the site of Heritage Ice Cream…
Read More »Tuesday Trivia
How well do you know Lowell? Answers tomorrow. 11) What was the previous name for the Harvard Brewery before 1898? 12) What was the original name of the street that runs in front of the main area of the North Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell? 13) Which Lowell…
Read More »Building Blocks of Lowell
Tony Sampas shows us what Lowell is built of . . .
Read More »MIT Prof. Shares Nobel in Economics
October 11, 2010
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Economist Peter Diamond of MIT is one of three co-recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. Read the boston.com news account here. (Hey, if these guys are so smart, why can’t they get people to work within a system that is stable and productive and avoids boom-and-bust cycles, a…
Read More »Prof. Bob Shares ‘MassBenchmarks’ View of Mass. Economy
Prof. Bob Forrant of UMass Lowell is a member of the editorial board of ‘MassBenchmarks,’ the highly respected UMass journal that tracks the state economy in the context of regional, national, and global conditions. The board today issued a statement about the “health” of the Massachusetts economy. Here’s the link And here’s…
Read More »E. J. Says ‘the Wealthy’ Are Waging a Class War
E. J. Dionne, Jr., writing in the Washington Post spells out the impact of new campaign finance regulations, thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision that unleashed “third-party” political spending. He says the moneyed interests have declared war on government officials who support policies that attempt to balance the interests of…
Read More »Light and Shadow in Lowell
Tony Sampas shows us how light and shadows can make a photograph
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