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Tony Sampas shares photos of a smokestack in the Acre (above) and one repurposed as a cell phone antenna (below)
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Tsongas Second TV Ad
Congresswoman Niki Tsongas began running her second TV Ad yesterday. It is titled “It Shows”.
Read More »Globe Features Kerouac & Lowell’s Creative Economy
James Sullivan writes about the economic impact of Jack Kerouac’s legacy in Lowell in the Business section of the Boston Globe, posted tonight on boston.com for tomorrow’s paper. Read the article here, and get the Globe if you appreciate the reporting.
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September 28, 2010
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PaulM
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President Obama pumped up the volume on his message for the upcoming election in a just-released interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine. I picked up the feed from realclearpolitics.com. Read the RS interview here, and consider buying the magazine if you value the work.
Read More »MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grants’ Announced
Why isn’t the annual announcement of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grants” for extraordinary creativity in the sciences, arts, engineering, and other disciplines televised nationally like baseball’s All-Star Game? The awardees are the “stars” of intellect, creativity, and insight. The NYTimes today reports on the latest MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grants.” At least three of…
Read More »Lowell Smokestacks II
Tony Sampas contributes more photographic evidence of Lowell’s past as a “smokes stack economy”
Read More »‘Everybody goes home in October.’
In inky night we crossed New Mexico; at gray dawn it was Dalhart, Texas; in the bleak Sunday afternoon we rode through one Oklahoma flat-town after another; at nightfall it was Kansas. The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October. We arrived in St.…
Read More »Lowell Celebrates the Iconic Jack Kerouac
The Boston Herald reminds us in an AP story just added to their on-line edition, that a newly expanded version of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! awaits aficionados of Jack Kerouac and his literary world. LOWELL – The city of Lowell is set to hold an expanded version its annual festival celebrating…
Read More »Lowell smokestacks
Tony Sampas shares some photos of smokestacks around Lowell. Above is a view of the Saints Medical Center power plant; below is a shot of Market Street near the Market Mills complex.
Read More »Roger Brunelle’s Guided Bus Tour at Kerouac Festival
Roger Brunelle, inventor of the guided tours of Kerouac’s literary sites in Lowell, will lead a 2.5 hour bus tour on Saturday, Oct. 2, starting at 8.30 am at the National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. See the sites written about in “Visions of Gerard,” “Doctor Sax,” “Maggie Cassidy,”…
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