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The clock high above Lowell City Hall. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Kerouac’s Typewriter at Nat’l Park Makes News
Read Rita Savard’s fine article about typewriters in our culture and, specifically, Jack Kerouac’s typewriter at the National Park’s Mogan Cultural Center museum exhibit about the immigrant history of Lowell. Filmmakers were in the city yesterday documenting the old Underwood typewriter on display with one of Kerouac’s backpacks on the…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Old Mills Reborn in Gateway Cities
In today’s Boston Globe in the GlobeNorth section, writer Katheleen Conti writes about the current state of reclaiming, rehabbing and reuse of the mill space in the downtowns of the Merrimack Valley’s historic mills cities – Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. She notes: Mill and factory buildings that supported gateway cities…
Read More »Bill Moyers Back on TV
From truth-out.org, I picked up news that Bill Moyers has a new TV program. He keeps coming back, I think, because nobody else has figured out how to do the kinds of shows he is so well known for, mixing high-minded thinking, compassionate political ideas, and entertaining broadcast methods. Read…
Read More »Lowell City Hall eagle
Tony Sampas gives us a close up of the eagle that sits high atop Lowell City Hall
Read More »Murphy flexes mayoral pen
A post made this afternoon on the Lowell Sun political blog criticizes Mayor Patrick Murphy for some of his selections of chairpersons for various city council subcommittees. The post, “Murphy flexes Mayoral Muscle, begins with . . . Rookie Mayor Patrick Murphy left no doubt who’s in charge when he…
Read More »‘Tan Mill’ by Richard Marion
“Tan Mill” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »King Star Cafe & Center City Committee
At lunchtime today I attended a gathering sponsored by the Center City Committee at the King Star Cafe at 201 Market Street. Wedged in between the Athenian Corner and the Dubliner, I’d never visited the King Star before. My only disappointment was that I had waited this long to do…
Read More »Looking to Providence for inspiration – again
For about a year I’ve been working with a tech-savy young man named Sam Antonaccio to find a way to use the latest communications and gaming technology to bring Lowell’s history to life for a new generation. As we wrapped up a meeting this past Saturday, Sam mentioned that he…
Read More »LNHP Superintendent Michael Creasey’s New Role
Superintendent Michael Creasey standing befor the LNHP float in the 2011 City of Lights Parade It was inevitable that Lowell National Historical Park Superintendent Michael Creasey would be advancing in the National Park Service. His successful session at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University along with the obvious respect his views…
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