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View from the Boott Mill
Views from within the Boott Mill. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »UTEC Grand Opening
This afternoon was the Grand Opening of the new UTEC facility on Hurd Street. The facility is an architectural marvel, both inside and out, joining the historic St. Paul’s United Methodist Church (1839) with a brand new 7500 square foot, three story addition. The first floor of the addition features…
Read More »Trash pick-up on normal schedule
Sorry to be a bit late with this reminder, but trash pick-up in the city of Lowell this week will be on the normal schedule and not delayed one day despite Monday being the observance of Veterans Day. So put your trash out on the normal schedule if you haven’t…
Read More »Worcester water crisis
Yesterday at about noon a major water main in Worcester burst, flooding a building at Worcester State University and forcing the city to shut of its entire water supply overnight to make repairs. Imagine waking up and not having a ready supply of clean, safe water – no shower, no…
Read More »‘Desire Lines’
This is a revised version of a poem of the season from my second full-length collection of poems, “Middle Distance,” published in 1989. The setting is drawn from the view across fields in Dracut, off Mammoth Road looking toward Lakeview Avenue.–PM . Desire Lines . At Runaway Hill, where a horse…
Read More »Harvard Brewery Items
This video shows some interesting memorabilia from the Harvard Brewery in Lowell. captainbirch originally posted this video.
Read More »Hope springs, at least for now by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find it here. Congress returns to work tomorrow, and there are a few reasons to be hopeful that the two parties may be able to negotiate a solution to the fiscal crisis, the so-called fiscal cliff that…
Read More »Switching to unenrolled
Taking advantage of the adhesive-weakening sunlight this weekend, I switched my car’s party affiliation from Democrat to unenrolled. Removing bumper stickers is also easier when the candidates won.
Read More »Leaves
In a strange way, nature cooperated with leaf clean-up this fall. Hurricane Sandy’s glancing blow provided enough limb-shaking wind to bring most of the leaves to the ground. This weekend, three days long for some, provided perfect weather for working outside. After filling 120 of the brown paper 30 gallon…
Read More »Florence Green and Veterans Day
The cartoon strip Arlo and Janis today observed that with the death of Florence Green back in February at age 110 – she was a member of the Women’s Royal Air Force in World War One and presumed to be the last surviving veteran of that conflict – that this…
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