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Come to the Lowell Tweet-Up tomorrow at LTC. It’s free and refreshments will be served. If you’re brand new to Twitter, we’ll help you get started. You’ll create an account, upload your profile picture, do some test Tweets and learn some of the most useful tricks from experienced Twitter users…
Read More »“Young Angel Midnight,” the arts anthology published by Bootstrap Press of Lowell in collaboration with COOL, the Cultural Organization of Lowell, last night won a New England Art Award in the Book category. The anthology won “The People’s Choice” award. More than 60 writers, visual artists, and musicians contributed material…
Read More »Please welcome our newest contributor, Betsy Woods-McGuire, a long-time columnist for the Town Crier newspaper in Tewksbury. Her column, “Betsy’s Best Bets”, covers the hidden treasures, the tried and true, and the tucked-away gems — interwoven with humor and her unique social commentary. The following piece was originally published in…
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Read More »This is a cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog. Our colleague Dick Howe gave the “Howl in Lowell” – inaugural edition – on-line arts and entertainment magazine and its readers a history lesson on the City of Lowell seal. Lowell Howls About Lowell’s Historic Seal Posted on March 1,…
Read More »All winter long I’ve said we got all the snow I wanted this year before Halloween, a reference to the October 30, 2011 snowfall that knocked down trees and knocked out power for many days (five for me). Unless a whole lot more snow falls in the next few hours,…
Read More »A large crowd of contributors and supporters gathered last night at the Back Page in Kearney Square for the official “launch party” of Howl in Lowell, the city’s newest entrant into the online information world. Howl in Lowell is a fully electronic “web-zine” that will cover the arts, entertainment and…
Read More »The following story is by Julia MacDonnell, whose first novel “A Year of Favor” was published by William Morrow in 1994. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, North Dakota Quarterly, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She was born in Maine and grew up in Massachusetts, where…
Read More »Below is an interesting local video of Freeman Lake in Chelmsford. Five hour time lapse video from 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM on February 23, 2012 overlooking Freeman Lake, North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. This video was originally posted by Swanbeck12
Read More »Bob Forrant, professor of history at UMass Lowell and director of the Bread & Roses Strike Centennial, sent me the following post about events in Lawrence one hundred years ago this month. Check out the Bread & Roses Strike Centennial website for more info about upcoming events. On the morning…
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