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Dogs of the Folk Festival
I’m not sure that bringing a dog to the Folk Festival is such a good idea (for the dog), but some people do. Here are a few who spent some time near my hangout in the Free Speech area:
Read More »Meanderings by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares this essay: I was watching television this evening, the news on ABC to be exact, and Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of the City of New York was featured for a new program in the city. Bloomberg has, apparently, dictated that new mothers be given a…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren visits Folk Festival
Elizabeth Warren visited the Lowell Folk Festival today, spending 90 minutes walking around town, shaking hands with Festival goers. Here are a few pictures.
Read More »Leymah Gbowee Carries Olympic Flag in Opening Ceremony: Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar
From the NYTimes: Meanwhile, back at the stadium, the Olympic flag was carried along the track by eight humanitarians, including Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, and Leymah Gbowee, who shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Once they made a half-circuit of the stadium, they met a frail-looking Muhammad…
Read More »Outrage? Charles Blow of NYT Asks for It
“Where’s the outrage” cried US Sen. Bob Dole in 1996, asking voters to repudiate President Clinton. In today’s NYT, opinion writer Charles Blow asks, What’s the matter with Democrats in this election cycle? He cites polls that suggest that Republican voters are ready to run to the voting booth while…
Read More »Scenes from opening night of Lowell Folk Festival
Scenes from City Hall before and during the Ethnic Parade that kicked off the 2012 Lowell Folk Festival
Read More »New Meets Old, Part II
Greg Page and Jennifer Myers, the outgoing and the incoming aides to Lowell Mayor Patrick Murphy, leaving City Hall for the opening parade of the Folk Festival
Read More »New meets Old
Photo and text from Tony Sampas: Patrick O. Murphy, the 88th mayor of Lowell meets the 2nd Mayor of Lowell, Luther Lawrence (1778-1839), in the City of Lowell Council Chamber, July 25, 2012. Luther Lawrence was mayor from 1838 to 1839. The portrait is a reproduction of an oil painting…
Read More »Supervisors finally paying the price of sexual abuse cover-ups by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recently, a Philadelphia church official, Msgr. William Lynn, was sentenced to three to six years in prison on one felony child endangerment charge for covering up sexual abuse by the now laicized priest, Edward Avery, whom he supervised. Lynn…
Read More »2012 Lowell Folk Festival kicks off tonight
Head down to Lowell City Hall this evening for the 6:40 pm Ethnic Parade that is the opening ceremony of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival. The procession of costumed residents bearing the flags of their native countries and the native countries of their ancestors will leave JFK Plaza, proceed down…
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