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UMass Lowell Artbotics
Here is another fun video from the robotics department at UMass Lowell. Spring semester students exhibited their work in Boston Cyberarts 2011.
Read More »Lowell Trolley 1989
This video was originally posted by nhrrman on YouTube. A Moose Mountain Production filmed by Richard ‘Moose’ Ouellette takes a look at the Lowell,MA trolley operation on 10/05/1989. The car 4131 is a replica of a Brill “Semi-convertible” car which is suited to all-weather operation. Built in 1987 by Gomaco…
Read More »Our Next Blogger Meetup: June 9 at Gary’s Ice Cream
Mark you calendars for the next gathering of the Greater Lowell blogosphere. It’s Thursday, June 9 from 6 pm till 8 pm at Gary’s Ice Cream, 131 Gorham Street (Rte 3A), East Chelmsford. Everyone – blog writers, commenters and readers as well as those on Facebook and Twitter are all…
Read More »Memorial Day Weekend Schedule
The Greater Lowell Veterans’ Council and its constituent organizations have a full schedule of activities over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend: FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS: Memorial Service; Sat., May 28th @9:15am, MOH Joseph Ouellette Memorial Service @ St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Riverneck Rd., Chelmsford, MA LOWELL VETERANS’ COUNCIL: Memorial Service, Sat. May…
Read More »This Is Important: Manning Gift Yields $5 Million for UMass Lowell
Did I mention UMass Lowell alums Robert and Donna Manning and the $5 million for the development of a new home for Management studies: The Robert Manning School of Business? See below for another post with links to media articles. Robert Manning will be the Commencement speaker at the Tsongas Center…
Read More »On Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday: A Film Clip from Lowell
Thanks to Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! on Facebook and the blog Reader’s Almanac of the Library of America for this film clip and commentary about Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. The footage is from November 1975 in Edson Cemetery in Lowell, when Bob Dylan was in the city with…
Read More »Barney Frank’s back to his old self, provocative and, this time, unsettling by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was vintage Barney Frank at last Friday’s meeting of the New England Council. He was savagely funny, insightful, acerbic and provocative. This was particularly true when he discussed the federal deficit and lifting the debt ceiling, the…
Read More »The Robert Manning School of Business at UMass Lowell
UMass Lowell today announced a donation valued at $5 million from alumni Robert and Donna Manning. A new home for the university’s College of Management will be named the Robert Manning School of Business. Read the Boston Herald report here, and get the Herald if you want to read…
Read More »Lowell Spinners bobble head schedule
There’s nothing that will match Jack Kerouac bobble head night at the Lowell Spinners, but a mailing I received yesterday with this year’s special event schedule discloses some interesting choices: Carl Yastrzemski (June 18) Rich Gedman (June 27) Bobby Doerr (July 1) Terry Francona (July 20) Ryan Kalish (July 25)…
Read More »May 24, 1861: Butler and the end of slavery
One hundred fifty years ago today, just two days after taking command of Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, Lowell’s Ben Butler made a decision that changed history. Sometime during the night of the 23-24 of May, three slaves who had been digging gun positions for the Confederate forces besieging Fort…
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