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Architectural details along Merrimack Street
The artistic eye of Tony Sampas caught these architectural details somewhere on Merrimack Street.
Read More »Small Cities Conference in Worcester
The study of the future of small cities continues as a Worcester conference focuses on the future of small industrial cities in New England. Two of those cities are in the Merrimack Valley – Lowell and Lawrence. From the Associated Press via the Boston Globe: The Federal Reserve Bank of…
Read More »Lowell: Public Visioning on Housing & Public Services Thursday Night
A reminder from Lowell’s Department of Planning and Development: In July and August, as part of the update to Lowell’s citywide Master Plan, the Department of Planning and Development will host a series of public visioning sessions to collect input from the community and help shape a vision for the…
Read More »Civil War Boston Guidebook Creates a Kerfuffle
History is usually defined as a chronological record of significant events (as affecting a nation or institution) often including an explanation of their causes. Sometimes the interpretation of history along with its presentation can cause some problems. There’s a local kerfuffle over “Walking Tours of Civil War Boston’’ – the…
Read More »Farewell, Dick Williams
The former manager and player passed away last week. Here are a couple of baseball card memories of Dick Williams. The first is a Topps baseball card from 1964, and the other is his manager card from the Impossible Dream year of 1967, also a Topps card.
Read More »Merrimack Valley Magazine (July-Aug)
See the latest in Merrimack Valley Magazine. Features include the Lowell Summer Music Series with Peter Aucella, the Lowell Film Festival, Micky Ward Charities, Shaw Farm in Dracut, and plenty more. This publication has become required reading “In the Merrimack Valley” (to take a phrase from my blogging colleague Marie).
Read More »Tracking Beat Writers in the U.S.A.
In the journal The Beat Review Beat literature scholar Jimmy Fazzino of the Universtiy of California, Santa Cruz, reviews Bill Morgan’s latest book “Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America” (2011: City Lights Books, S.F.). The guidebook opens with Lowell and Jack Kerouac. Beginning…
Read More »US Women’s Soccer team beats Brazil
I still have a hard time following soccer, but this apparently was an all-time classic ending. The US was down 2-1 in “extra time” when, in the very last minute of play, the Americans scored the tying goal. The outcome was decided by penalty kicks. This video, from ESPN, shows…
Read More »Chelmsford 4th July Parade
This is a wonderful video production of Chelmsford’s 2011 Fourth of July Parade created by Larry Richardson.
Read More »Bela Fleck Video
Previously my co-author Paul gave us some of his keen observations of the Bela Fleck and the Flecktones’ concert which took place on the front lawn of the Mogan Cultural Center Friday night. The video below was taken by Citizen Journalist bilandamyburke and posted on YouTube. It a nice candid…
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