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Mass Memories Road Show is a public history project organized by UMass Boston. It travels around the state and sets up shop in a particular community on a particular day. Residents of that community are then invited to show up with photographs, both old and current, that show the history…
Read More »Thanks to the Tewksbury Patch, here’s the candidate lineup for the Tewksbury Town election that takes place on Saturday April 14, 2012. Read the full article here: http://tewksbury.patch.com/articles/municipal-ballot-set-robinson-out-sullivan-in Candidates (Final) Tookout Papers Returned Papers Board of Selectmen (2 seats for three years) I-David Gay Yes Yes I-Scott Wilson Yes Yes…
Read More »The sun setting over the Merrimack River. Photos by Tony Sampas. UPDATE: These photos were taken from the riverbank adjacent to UML’s South Campus looking west towards the Rourke Bridge.
Read More »We’re in the midst of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The 100th anniversary of World War One is not far away. While that war began in 1914, America did not enter it until 1917 and US ground forces saw…
Read More »Jim Peters sent along the following essay: I have some major health issues that sometimes I can forget about; to be dredged up at another time. One of those recently caused me to reconsider running for State Committee. I was mentally ready for a run, but physically I had to…
Read More »It’s all about the cars! The big NASCAR races are but the current focus of aficinados of the sport -although for the first time ever the opening of the Daytona 500 was rescheduled due to the heavy rain and dangerous conditions down in Daytona, Florida yesterday. It’s really a pageant, a festival – if…
Read More »This coming Saturday, March 3 from 10 am to noon, there will be a Tweet-Up at Lowell Telecommunications Corp, 246 Market Street, right next to the Lowell National Park Visitors Center. The event is informal and unstructured and will benefit everyone ranging from the person who has no idea what…
Read More »See www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org for the full schedule of activities from March 5 to March 12, organized as a weeklong tribute to the Lowell cultural powerhouse Jean-Louis Kerouac (1922–1969). UMass Lowell is involved with several events including a special screening of the film “Lowell Blues” with the director Henry Ferrini on Monday, March…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. I really like George and his colleagues at my local post office. They’re helpful and friendly, and seem to know the local residents. They’re an important part of the local neighborhood scene. A lot of…
Read More »Somebody once said that Lowell is a “little big city,” and that character is due in part to the spectrum of activities on any given day: small to large, low to high, basic to extravagant, local to global, traditional to experimental, common to cosmic — you get the idea. Yesterday…
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