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‘Garden Path’ by Richard Marion
“Garden Path” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Talk About ‘Place-Making’
There was some buzz and rattle on the web yesterday when the online appliance of a venerable magazine with a Boston root system, The Atlantic, posted a fizzy report about a made-up episode in the life and times of John L. Kerouac, all of it putting Lowell in the news…
Read More »Along Moody Street
Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »Cape Cod National Seashore ~ signed into law by JFK on August 7, 1961
There’s always that Lowell connection! George Price – current Superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park was formerly a Deputy Superintendent in Lowell. Today MassMoments reminds us that it was on this day fifty years ago – August 7, 1961 that President John F. Kennedy signed the bill authorizing the…
Read More »Primary Predictions
Sorry but I’m not going to make any order-of-finish predictions for the city council primary. The headline was just a cheap trick to get you to read this post. I do have some thoughts on the fact that there will be a primary, assuming a few of the 21 individuals…
Read More »Larry Summers for the Fed? Spare us by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Federal Reserve may not be the center of the solar system, but it is a key inflection point in American politics and, through its interest rate policies, can have a profound impact on the nation’s economy. The Fed…
Read More »from John McPhee’s introduction to Thoreau’s ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers’
“… Just as he describes it, the Concord narrows dramatically and shallows out over a ‘yellow pebbly bottom’ as it approaches the falls in Billerica, where the Thoreaus went off on the Middlesex Canal and where Kaz and I were to rendezvous with my wife, Yolanda Whitman, in her Odyssey.…
Read More »‘Smokestack Chair’ by Richard Marion
“Smokestack Chair” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Steve Gendron for School Committee website
Above is a screen shot of the new Steve Gendron for Lowell School Committee website. You can find the actual website is here. Steve’s Twitter account (which is here), announces that he will be a guest on WCAP radio tomorrow morning at 8:15. Below is a portion of the “About…
Read More »Health and Social Sciences Building UMass Lowell, South Campus
Photo by Tony Sampas
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