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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 »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 »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 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 »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 »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 »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
Read More »Read what the Andover Patch has to say about Andover native Kate Hanson Foster’s new book of poems, which will be released on Sunday, May 22, at 2 pm at UMass Lowell’s O’Leary Library Auditorium. Kate is a graduate of UMass Lowell as well as the Bennington (Vermont) College Master…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Finally, some of our traditionally intimidated politicians are showing a bit of common sense on the issue of excessive health benefits for local public workers unions. We’re not there yet, but we’re moving in the right direction. The…
Read More »Many in Lowell know the story of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment and its involvement in the Baltimore Riot of April 19, 1861 that cost four soldiers (including Lowell’s Luther Ladd and Addison Whitney) their lives. Few realize that for a week following that incident, Washington DC was at…
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