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This is a great video posted by mshane123. Its a behind the scene look at fiddler Natalie MacMaster’s recent performance at Boarding House Park. The guy featured in the video and doing most of the talking is guitarist Shane Hendrickson who was touring with MacMaster at the time of her…
Read More »Please welcome Tony Sampas, the newest contributor to richardhowe.com. Tony grew up in Lowell and after two decades in the building trade now works as an archivist at UMass Lowell and as a reference librarian at The Pollard Memorial Library. In 2009 he began making a habit of capturing images…
Read More »The above photo shows Mehmed Ali, a friend who continues to serve the US government in Iraq, presenting Dr. Salah Abdul Razak, the Governor of Baghdad, with several cans of Moxie as a gift to recognize the end of the month of Ramadan. No matter how far from Lowell he…
Read More »Voices are getting louder and more anxious as the country openly re-examines its value system. I have a sense that some key brick in the wall of national identity has come loose, leaving us with a very shaky structure that is causing widespread instability. I had an encounter today with an…
Read More »I know our readers can get national opinion columns elsewhere on the web, from the sources and other aggregators, but I feel compelled to bring some of the ones that make a lot of sense to me to our site for easy access. Also, any day now this growing controversy…
Read More »Common . Nineteenth-century designers saw parks as breathing spaces whose trees would pump oxygen through tenement and mansion alike. Even the vocabulary of green spaces freshens speech—grove and bee, clover and pebble, pine cone and jay. Seagulls on the common across the street from my family’s house stand as stout…
Read More »U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has notified Ste. Jeanne d ‘Arc School of Lowell that it has been designated as a 2010 National Blue Ribbon School – a distinction awarded to only fifty private schools in the nation. Principla Sr. Prescille Malo notified parents that these Blue Ribbon Schools are…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us this morning that on this day – September 10, 1960 – U. S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers died. Mrs. Rogers was the longest serving woman in the U. S. Congress having replaced her late husband John Jacob Rogers upon his death in 1927. The heroine of Veterans and their families…
Read More »He’s back with another brain-stretcher of a mega-concept. David Brooks is writing about a national “gentility shift,” a long-term trend in how Americans are organizing their society, that he suggests may be a root cause of today’s new kind of economic pain. This has to do with younger people mostly—what those with more…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes about Susan Retik and Patricia (Fleming) Quigley, who co-founded Beyond the 11th after their husbands were killed in the 9/11 attacks as a way to reach out to women in Afghanistan who, like them, lost their husbands in violent incidents. Patti (Fleming)…
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