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“The Worker” fountain sculpture by Elliot Schwartz and is located in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts. NEA Arts is the quarterly magazine of the National Endowment for the Arts. Lowell is featured in the current edition in an article entitled – “Building on the Past: The Creative Rebirth of Lowell, Massachusetts.” Author…
Read More »This past weekend someone told me that a candidate from the Massachusetts Pirate Party was seeking nomination signatures in Lowell to qualify for the November ballot for an elective office (I’m not sure which one). Perhaps confusing the Pirate Party with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I dismissed it…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Elizabeth Warren is a stronger candidate than Martha Coakley was in 2010, but Scott Brown is a far better candidate than he was back then. He was in full campaign mode at today’s New England Council luncheon. His…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts with us tonight: Did you ever watch the world pass you by and you have no idea what anyone is talking about? That’s the situation I am in now, basic things like my 40th. reunion for the Lowell High School are understandable but…
Read More »A Note from Jay Mason: Please join me for an event in collaboration with the climate action group 350.org this Saturday, 5/5 at Lowell City Hall at 10:30 am. It would be fantastic if you could make it (see flyer, attached). We need your participation in a photo to be taken in front…
Read More »This first day of May, 2012 ushers in Older Americans Month. This year’s theme “Never Too Old to Play” encourages older Americans to stay engaged, active and involved in their own lives and in their communities. Who are these Americans? The older population–persons 65 years or older–numbered 40.4 million in…
Read More »May 1st was always a day on which workers celebrated hard-won rights, but after 1919 it also became a day for the Soviet Union to exalt its military might. While the massive parades in Red Square were a boon for Western intelligence services – the Soviets always rolled out their…
Read More »Social networking is great, but to me its true value is to make it easier for people to come together in-person and get things done. A great example of this comes on Sunday at “Mill City Skill Share” during which a number of individuals have volunteered to share a skill…
Read More »Lura Smith, wrapped up in Mary Sampas, “In Her Own Words,” Whistler House, April 25th 2012. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »The Tewksbury Patch reminds us that the Tewksbury Historical Society’s annual fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday May 19, 2012 at the Tewksbury Senior Center. The historical theatrical presentation will focus on author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, surveyor, historian and leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. While Walden may be his most famous…
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