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Despite proclamations that Lowell aspires to become a “college town,” months of criticism of the University by some in the city have damaged the relationship between the two entities. At this coming Tuesday’s city council meeting, both Bill Samaras and Jim Milinazzo have motions about this on the agenda, so…
Read More »The “Lowell Walks” topic this Saturday is the Lowell Public Art Collection. Rosemary and I will meet people at 10 AM at the National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, for a 90-minute guided tour of the monumental sculptures commissioned and installed in the 1980s and 90s in downtown Lowell.…
Read More »Folk Festival turns 30 The Lowell Folk Festival arrived in the city in 1986, making this its 30th birthday. Roaming around downtown yesterday afternoon, the Festival seemed better than ever with big crowds at all the venues despite the heat. If you plan to go this afternoon, remember that it…
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival “Here we are dealing with living traditions. We know that the urge to preserve is based on the fact that we know the things that we are passing on have value, and we want to hold on to them. So we try to build continuity and to…
Read More »Art along Pawtucket Canal Local artist Barbara Poole, working with a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council and with support from other community partners, recently received permission from the city council to install colored fabric in the openings of a brick wall remnant that lines the Pawtucket Canal in the…
Read More »There’s a major museum exhibition in Paris about the Beat Generation writers this summer. Geoff Dyer, one of the best writers working today, has a piece about the show in The Spectator in England. He gives Jack Kerouac high marks for literary achievement but minces no words about the author…
Read More »Two big real estate sales were consummated this week. On Thursday, UMass Lowell took ownership of the Perkins Place apartments, and on Friday, Vision Development took ownership of the former Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank headquarters at One Merrimack Plaza (across from Lowell High School). Like most complex real estate…
Read More »My father collected stamps most of his life. Below is an item called a First Day Cover, which can be a card or an envelope with a postal cancellation mark on the day the stamp was released to the public. This one is from 1962, the stamp issued in connection…
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