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The city’s newest source of information, Howl in Lowell, has added a big chunk of new content to its site. There’s a great story and video about “Live from Studio A”, a new program on LTC. It is hosted by Jerry Bisantz and each episode features a playwright from around…
Read More »The Chelmsford Genealogy Club passed along news of two upcoming events. On Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM, the club will host a Genealogy Jam Session at the Chelmsford Library. Using the more familiar jam session of musicians as a model, this is an opportunity for anyone…
Read More »In his opinion column today, NYTimes writer David Brooks muses about his lifelong affection for the New York Mets baseball team. As he usually does, Brooks expands from particular to universal and winds up making an observation about what makes people truly happy. In his analysis he uses two American…
Read More »Last week the US House of Representatives approved the Lowell Nation Park Exchange Act filed by Congresswoman Niki Tsongas. According to a press Release issues Tsongas’ office on February 29: The bill permits the transfer of the National Park’s surface parking lots on Dutton Street to the City in exchange…
Read More »Here’s a preview of the Obama 2012 campaign: [youtube]NXtJhLUOFXE[/youtube]
Read More »Nancye Tuttle of the Sun has the story on the Lowell celebration for what would be Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday this coming Monday, March 12.
Read More »Boston Magazine salutes Jack Kerouac of Lowell for all his writerly accomplishments.
Read More »The Winter 2012 edition of the Boston College Magazine arrived in the mail today. As always it is chock full of interesting and enlightening articles. One such article “Questioning Authority, Keeping the Faith” has some very interesting statistics about American Catholics. The article was based on the opening remarks at…
Read More »It may come as news to many, but there was an election held here in Massachusetts two days ago. It was the Presidential Primary but similar races in other states grabbed what spotlight there was. By my count, just under 4000 people made it to the polls in Lowell which,…
Read More »Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Albert “Skippy” Roberge of Lowell, who played several years for the Boston Braves. He also played for several minor league clubs, including Toronto (see below). Here’s an extended description of his life and sports career from Baseball in Wartime on the web.
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