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John Quealey died last week and was buried yesterday. Many attended his wake at Fay-McCabe Funeral Home. While there, Tony Sampas captured the following images: When I became Register of Deeds, John was a custodian at the courthouse. We saw each other daily, and always spoke of Lowell, its people,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. AP photo It’s about time. Federal prosecutors have finally asked for the early release of former Mass. House Speaker Sal DiMasi from a federal prison in Butler, North Carolina. DiMasi was convicted on seven out of nine corruption charges and sentenced to…
Read More »The latest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature performed at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell in 2013. He’s been to Lowell a few times before. Here’s a replay of my report.—PM Bob Dylan in Lowell, Another Side I’m glad I went down to the river last night. The…
Read More »Today’s Nobel Prize-winner Bob Dylan in Lowell in November, 1975, is seen below with fellow poet Allen Ginsberg at the Edson Cemetery grave of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), whose writings influenced the young Dylan. Bob Dylan brought his Rolling Thunder Revue to Lowell in tribute to Kerouac and performed with his…
Read More »Artist Michio Ihara of Concord, Mass., is in the city this week with his team working on the renewal of his “Pawtucket Prism” sculpture at the Lower Locks canal complex overlooking the Concord River and Pawtucket Canal, right by the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. Here are some in-progress…
Read More »Concord River Greenway Walk This Saturday is the final Lowell Walk of 2016. It will be led by Jane Calvin, the Executive Director of Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, and it will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 15 2016, at the Lawrence Street gate of Lowell Cemetery. Park…
Read More »Mayor Kennedy introduces and thanks the Michael Roundy and Bianca Morrow, the organizers of this year’s very successful Lowell Kinetic Sculpture race. City Auditor explains report on Charter School funding which was included in city council packet. (see my report on that report in Sunday’s Week in Review post). Councilor…
Read More »“Gone Lowell” will be a series of photos from Tony Sampas of things in Lowell that are no longer standing. We start with the Club De Citoyens-American, 619 Market St. Demolished in August, 2015.
Read More »On Thursday, October 6, 2016, former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich joined Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Jay Ash at UMass Lowell for the inaugural Community Teamwork Inc. “Community Conversation.” I included Ash’s comments in my Week in Review post, and promised to write separately about Reich,…
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