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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 »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was way out of line in her scathing criticism of Donald Trump. Three times in the last week, she let it be known she can’t imagine this country under a president Trump, She called…
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 »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: July 11, 2016 – Monday 80 Swan St Unit 223 for $226,000. Prior sale in 2012 for $158,500 374 Beacon St for $327,000. Prior sale in 1981 582 Wilder St for $274,285. Prior sale in 2002 for $269,900 1900…
Read More »Is Lowell a Happy City? We’ll find out this fall thanks to the Pollard Memorial Library. This year’s Lowell Reads book is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Lowell Reads is an annual effort by the library to create community through literature and reading. The…
Read More »Please join us this Saturday, July 16, 2016, for the UPPER MERRIMACK STREET Lowell Walk which will be led by Yun-Ju Choi, the Executive Director of Coalition for a Better Acre. The walk begins at 10 a.m. at Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market St. The walk will…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. Lorne Ahrens. Michael Krol. Michael Smith. Brent Thompson. Patrick Zamarripa. Seven men shot and killed last week. Seven senseless deaths, all speaking in one way or another to the racism laced through relations…
Read More »This September 27, 1966 editorial from the Lowell Sun reminds us that fifty years ago, requiring the city manager to do the job full-time was both novel and controversial: At tonight’s City Council meeting a motion will be presented which specifically spells out one of the basic requirements of the…
Read More »From Tony Sampas . . . “One of many groups of “Pokémon Go” players wandering the Lowell night with their smart phones seeking “digital creatures, which appear overlaid on the real world.”
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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