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Making Peace with the Duke By David Daniel TCM was running a John Wayne retrospective, and Lacey, the bartender, had it on the TV. “Isn’t there a Bruins game?” I asked. “What, you got a problem with the Duke?” someone on the stool to my left said. He had shoulders…
Read More »Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s New Book About Her 40 Years as an Artist Covers Her Time in Lowell Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s involvement in the arts includes roles as artist, teacher, speaker, writer, designer, and publisher. Her artists’ books are in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Wellesley College,…
Read More »Lowell Walks is back in 2020, bigger and better than ever. This year, we’ve partnered with Lowell National Historical Park to offer 25 different Saturday morning walks. Here they are: March 7 at 10am: Women’s Activism in Lowell Walk with Resi Polixa, Allison Horrocks, Anne Mulvey, and Sheri Denk –…
Read More »This morning the Trustees of the Pollard Memorial Library hosted a celebration of the restoration of the library’s “Washington at Dorchester Heights” painting. Done by local artist Samuel Howes, the painting is modeled on Gilbert Stuart’s classic painting of the same name. The restoration was made possible through the generosity…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For all of his hundreds of millions spent in promoting his candidacy in polished and effective ads, billionaire philanthropist and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg bombed in his first appearance on the Democratic presidential debate stage. He…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Will Rogers famously said, “I’m not a member of any organized political party; I’m a Democrat.” That boisterous, fractious, messy, irritating group was on full display in last night’s debate. Despite reminders that “there’s more that unites us…
Read More »When the Most Famous Woman in America Lived in the Merrimack Valley By Juliet Haines Mofford At the height of her fame and literary skill Harriet Beecher Stowe was an Andover, Mass., resident. Averaging a book a year for nearly 30 years, she wrote nine during the dozen years she…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. With all eyes on the Presidential contest, it’s still important to keep focus on down-ballot races. With Cong. Joe Kennedy challenging U.S. Senate stalwart and climate change expert Ed Markey, more than seven candidates are vying to fill…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle is a past contributor to this blog and well known as a journalist who is still working even though she is not at the Lowell Sun every day writing about arts and entertainment in the region. Local readers may also remember the popular museum exhibition about the history…
Read More »Fred Woods is familiar to many of us who served in the Lowell revival campaign in the Roaring ’80s. He goes back earlier in Lowell as part of Team Tsongas during Paul’s runs for the U.S. House and Senate—and he was there for the presidential push in 1991-92. Although known…
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