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Earlier this evening there was a showing of “Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey” at Middlesex Community College. Two weeks ago I attended the Lowell premiere and wrote a short post about that event. Afterwards I wrote a more thorough review of the film which I’ve reproduced below: On Thursday, April 4,…
Read More »The grand opening of the Health & Social Sciences Building at the corner of Broadway and Wilder streets, South Campus will take place on Thursday, April 18 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “The $40 million, 69,000-square-foot Health & Social Sciences Building will be home to three of the University’s…
Read More »Save the Date! May 4, 2013 10am-2pm
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that writer Lucy Larcom – one of Lowell’s iconic Mill Girls in her youth, died on this day April 17, 1893. In her autobiography A New England Girlhood, Lucy Larcom wrote: “From the beginning Lowell had a high reputation for good order, morality, piety, and all that…
Read More »A recurring theme in the books of the late, great military historian John Keegan was that some spots in the world are so strategically important that these same places become the sites of important battles over and over again. For instance, the battles of Agincourt (1415); Waterloo (1815) and the…
Read More »Among the many people from Greater Lowell who were severely injured in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing were Lowell High School senior Sydney Corcoran and her mother Celeste Corcoran. Family friends have created a site on GoFundMe.com on which people may contribute to a fund that will be used for the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to be shaken to the core by the horrific attacks at today’s marathon. The deaths, the mutilation, scores of injuries, and fear. The assault on what can only be described as an iconic (yes, I…
Read More »Jim Peters sent the following in response to today’s tragedy in Boston: I spent four hours today wondering where my brother was, whether I still had one, and all of those things that go through your head when he is running his 24th. BAA Marathon in three hours and thirteen…
Read More »The comedian Jonathan Winters died on April 11, 2013. Here’s a short video of some of his most memorable skits, courtesy of the New York Times. [youtube]wjpyztgCq8w[/youtube]
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