The Lowell High School Fine Arts Department gave the community another outstanding stage performance this evening, presenting The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee to a crowded Cyrus W. Irish Auditorium. The crowd which included many LHS staff members and School Committee members Jim Leary and Kim Scott was especially…
The Mass Memories Road Show, a statewide community history project operated by UMass Boston set up shop in Lowell today at the Tsongas Industrial History Center within the Boott Cotton Mills Museum. More than 100 Lowell residents brought vintage and current photographs to be scanned, archived, and made available on…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can view it by following this link. As a former journalist turned communications strategist, I look at Mitt Romney’s right hand man Eric Fehrnstrom and think there but for the grace of God go I. It’s the…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Some stories never end, and too often the media let them drift from public consciousness. Not so, Brian McGrory. His moving column Wednesday on the aftermath of the Darryl Williams shooting is a powerful reminder that some people…
Today MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 23, 1948, Jack Kerouac noted in his diary that although it was a struggle, once he had written the first 2500 words of a 360,000 word project, he was on his way to completing his first novel “The Town and the…
Howl in Lowell recently enthused about the versatile artistry of Jim Higgins and the Flying Orb troupe of performers, writers, filmmakers, music-makers, and more. Read about this award-winning creative team based in Lowell, but whose work is speaking to people beyond the city. Jim Dyment of the Whistler House Museum…
[youtube]5ztImOoaato[/youtube] Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC), the city’s public access cable TV organization, has launched its own channel on YouTube. Several staff members have uploaded promotional videos similar to the one shown above. Even though LTC operates cable TV channels, everyone there acknowledges that people’s video viewing habits are changing…
Tomorrow night at Lenzi’s our own Paul Marion will be honored by the Kiwanis Club of Greater Lowell with the Tom Kelakos Community Spirit Award. Tom was the owner of LOMEDCO medical supply company and was a member of Kiwanis for nearly 50 years. Tom’s legacy is one of quiet…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Click the link to visit it. Hurray for the Globe. On Monday, it analyzed the assumptions of Mitt Romney’s proposals to beef up the military till expenditures hit four percent of GDP, challenged the relevancy of his data…
This is interesting. A collection of book covers from editions of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel “On the Road.” This was shared on Facebook by Jim Canary, the “keeper” of the famous “On the Road” scroll typescript at the University of Indiana Library. See the covers here, from UK, USA, France,…