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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…
Read More »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…
Read More »[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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
Read More »Every once in a while Bob Ryan reminds us of why he’s got such a great reputation as a sports writer. His piece in today’s Globe is a masterpiece of reporting. Ryan spent several months this winter crisscrossing New England to see every men’s NCAA Division 1 basketball team play…
Read More »This coming Saturday the Mass Memories Road Show, a statewide community history project organized by UMass Boston, will visit Lowell. This will be the 50th community in the Commonwealth that the Road Show will visit. Their goal is to do all 351 cities and towns in the state. The Lowell…
Read More »These serene words of spring are by Robert Browning from his “Pippa Passes” ~ The Year’s at the Spring The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in his Heaven— All’s…
Read More »Remember, at the stroke of midnight tonight, Lowell’s government access programing will jump from cable channel 10 to cable channel 99. So if you want to watch the city council meeting tomorrow night – and who wouldn’t? – be sure to tune to channel 99.
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