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Today’s NYTimes includes a brief report about a Charles Dickens app from the Museum of London, produced for the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth, which will be on Feb. 7, 2012. Sam Antonacio has been working on something similar as a way to experience Lowell’s history, with the help of…
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Read More »Lots of really good and interesting information here in the just published Lowell Historic Board Newsletter. Articles include an installment in an ongoing series written by LHB Administrator Steve Stowell about Lowell building architecture; Assistant Administrator Kim Zunino’s look at “neon” signage in the downtown as well as some great vintage…
Read More »Over on the Pollard Memorial Library blog, Sean Thibodeau invites those library users – like me – who search, research and reserve books using the fairly new Evergreen system to take a survey. The regional library consortium – Merrimack Vallery Libray Consortium (MVLC) – seven months ago switched over to…
Read More »Two guys cross the playing field in the half-dark, heading for the train station. Bishop Markham Village glows amber from the night-lights on South Street, and there’s nothing moving on Summer Street, where the houses face the park like homesteads on the edge of their fields. The big tree-less bowl and floor…
Read More »“Blue Smoke #3” by Richard Marion See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Sound recording engineer Jamie Tagg of Nashua, N.H., a graduate student in UMass Lowell’s Music Dept., has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his work on recordings by Seraphic Fire, a Florida-based singing group. Read more about the Syracuse, N.Y, native at syracuse.com Gabrielle Tinto and Jamie Tagg sometimes would stand shoulder…
Read More »Watch the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony live on Saturday, Dec. 10, from Oslo, Norway, where Leymah Gbowee will accept the Peace Prize jointly with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman. See the ceremony at www.nobelprize.org
Read More »After electing five new city councilors in 1969, the voters continued to make changes in 1971 when 33,000 voters went to the polls in heavy rain and ousted three incumbents, Sam Pollard, Armand LeMay and John Mahoney while overwhelmingly defeating a proposal to change the city’s Plan E form of…
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