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President Obama’s Birth Certificate
If case you really want to see and read President Obama’s birth certificate – here it is as released by the White House – courtesy of the HuffingtonPost.com site:
Read More »Ann McLane Kuster Gets Emily’s List Approval For New Hampshire’s 2nd District
Ann McLane Kuster, Democrat from New Hampshire Emily’s List – a national political action committee – has announced its “round one” seal of approval for Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in her run for New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District in 2012. While not a full endorsement of Kuster and three others –…
Read More »Poets Michael Casey & Nicholas Samaras at UML, 4/28
The final poetry event for National Poetry Month at UMass Lowell is set for Thursday, April 28, at 7 pm, when Lowell native Michael Casey and Nicholas Samaras, with family ties in Lowell, read at O’Leary Library Auditorium, 61 Wilder St, UML South Campus. The event is free and open…
Read More »Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Kay Ryan at UMass Lowell
Kay Ryan (photo courtesy of Kristina Coci Hernandez) Sometimes I worry that we push too much poetry on the readers of this blog. After seeing more than 250 happy people listening to Kay Ryan read her poems last night at UMass Lowell’s O’Leary Library, I’m more encouraged than ever that poetry can…
Read More »Profile Khazei for US Senate
Yesterday City Year founder Alan Khazei announced he will be a candidate for United States Senate in 2012. Khazei wasted no time getting his website up and running. The links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are sure indicators that the campaign intends to enlist young supporters in its attempt…
Read More »Financial education for teens
I spent this morning at the UMass Lowell Tsongas Center participating in the “Money Strong” Fair sponsored by Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union for the benefit of seniors at Lowell High School. It was an amazing event, one that all students (and many adults) should be required to attend. The JDCU…
Read More »Alan Khazei Joins the U. S. Senate Race
Alan Khazei has told us today on Twitter, Facebook and through the mainstream media that he is officially “in” the race for the Massachusetts United States Senate seat currently held by Scott Brown. While many others have declined to run including former Congressman Joe Kennedy, former Congressman Marty Meehan, Governor Deval Patrick,…
Read More »Lowell Cemetery Tours Schedule Begins Next Week
The J.C. Ayer lot is the home of a most splendid monument – the Ayer lion. The monument by celebrated sculptor Mr. Price Joy is made of Italian marble. Above it lies in repose amid the spring flowers, plants and trees so beautiful and abundant in the Lowell Cemetery. Here’s a reminder from the…
Read More »“Unreliable Narrator”, new to our blogroll
Please check out “Unreliable Narrator“, the latest addition to our blogroll. Written by Lowell resident Dell Smith, the site provides a movie review each week with great detail and precision. His most recent review is of The Conspirator. Having seen the film last week, I recommend both the review and…
Read More »Delivery of Steel Beam for Dracut 911 Memorial
This is a great video of Road Scholar Transport delivering a piece of steel beam from the World Trade Center for the Dracut 911 Memorial. The memorial is expected to be completed sometime in July of this year. This video was originally posted by roadscholarawareness.org
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