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Read More »Kony 2012
The film below, titled Kony 2012 has gone viral receiving over 74 million views as of today. Jason Russell directed and narrated this powerful video whose purpose is to call the world’s attention to Ugandan criminal, Joseph Kony. Kony is a powerful warlord who has been accused of abducting thousands…
Read More »Niki Tsongas and the Veterans History Project
Joe Assenza served two tours in Iraq with the US Marines and likes remembering the small, seemingly inconsequential details of his time in and awaiting combat. Don Polsi drew number 25 in the draft lottery and was soon an Army artilleryman in Vietnam. Frank Hickey had a talent for music…
Read More »Central Street bridge fully reopened
The bridge over the Pawtucket Canal on Central Street in Lowell recently reopened. For more months than I care to remember, one of the inbound lanes of the bridge was blockaded with Jersey Barriers while construction crews made structural repairs to the bridge. The work site formed a traffic choke…
Read More »25th Anniversary of Angkor Dance Troupe
2012 marks the 25th Anniversary of the Angkor Dance Troupe, the Lowell-based nationally recognized performing arts organization that seeks to preserve and develop traditional Cambodian dance and traditional arts. The Troupe is holding a major fund raiser, “A Night with Angkor”, on March 26 at 6:30 pm at the Elephant…
Read More »MRT & UMass Lowell Team Up for Kerouac Play Premiere
Jen Myers of the Sun got the scoop on today’s announcement by Merrimack Repertory Theater and UMass Lowell that they will team up on the world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s only full-length play, “Beat Generation,” as the centerpiece of the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival this October. The news leaped across…
Read More »UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar John Prendergast, actor and activist George Clooney, and Sudan Experts To Testify at Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 3/14
UMass Lowell’s 2012 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, will testify on security conditions in Sudan and South Sudan for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with Sen John Kerry presiding this Wednesday. Mar 14 2012 10:00 am Timezone: America/New York The U.S.…
Read More »Lowell Congresswoman Edith Nourse Roger’s Length of Congressional Service About to be Surpassed
U. S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts presides over the House Chamber in this image from 1926. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives) For many years Edith Nourse Rogers held the record as the longest serving woman in the Congress. Rogers followed her deceased husband John Jacob Rogers…
Read More »In Lowell: Posed Past Politicos
Every once in a while there is a photo posted on this site of politicos from our Lowell/Greater Lowell past. I came across this photo posted elsewhere by LHS board member and young activist Lowellian Corey Sciuto. Do you remember these players and anything about their connections? Where was the…
Read More »“Walking Jack” – walking tour of Kerouac’s Lowell
Taking advantage of the wonderful weather, I joined 35 others on a 3.5 hour, 5+ mile walking tour of Jack Kerouac’s Lowell. Tour guides Mike Wurm and Bill Walsh explained that while all of the sites on this tour had been covered on previous tours, this was the first to…
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