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Next Sunday, February 8 at 2 pm at the Loading Dock Gallery, Maxine Farkas will give a talk on the historical geography of Western Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public. Here’s a description of the event that Maxine has posted on Faceook: I will be offering…
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Snow Removal Politically it was a quiet week in Lowell due to the blizzard that dumped 33 inches of snow on top of us. Another significant snowfall is about to hit us. Tim Kelly on NECN just said the snow should begin here in Lowell by 5 am and continue…
Read More »With two national parks – Minuteman National Park and Lowell National Historical Park – in her Third District – getting this appointment as the highest ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands is a coup for Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and for her constituents. As announced today by…
Read More »In April 1998, UMass Lowell hosted what I believe was the first public forum to discuss what the web could or would do in the city. The event was billed as a town meeting and featured guest speakers, a panel discussion, a demonstration of a new online cultural magazine called…
Read More »I lived in Pawtucketville for several years, from the late 1970s to early ’80s. I often write in response to a place or to make sense of a place, and that neighborhood was no different. I lived on the top floor of an old triple-decker, a sea-green block on a…
Read More »Blizzard Watch From the National Weather Service . . . THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. * LOCATIONS…EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND. * HAZARD TYPES…HEAVY SNOW…STRONG WINDS AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.…
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster graduated from UMass Lowell and gained her MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Groton, Mass. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Comstock Review, and other literary magazines. Her first book “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press in 2011, was selected that…
Read More »Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in…
Read More »Our far-flung contributor Tom Sexton is wintering Down East, tending to his poems and books. He sent this composition about the young women workers back in the day. Tom’s latest book is “A Ladder of Cranes” (University of Alaska Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press). Congratulations to Tom, one…
Read More »It is my wont to remind readers of the important events in history that have a Lowell connection. Today we remember – with the help of MassMoments – the organization of the Massachusetts Sixth Volunteer Militia… From our archive… This is a re-post from last year… but an important reminder…
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