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An incredible photo by Tony Sampas
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Images of the Merrimack Canal by Tony Sampas
Read More »Obama speech: still more questions than answers by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If Ronald Reagan was the great communicator, Barack Obama is the great synthesizer. In an artfully designed presentation, he pulled together all the disparate themes that have been raised in the last three weeks regarding our Libyan involvement…
Read More »ETIC, Time Capsule, Soaring Steel
The topping off ceremony at the construction site of UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center was satisfyingly inspirational for many reasons, chief among them being the sight of a long white steel girder autographed by hundreds of people in blue Sharpie and bearing a small fir tree and US…
Read More »Spring Snow on the way
The crocuses poking up in my front yard must have missed the latest forecast, otherwise they would have stayed below ground. Hoping that the prediction of snow was just an April Fool’s joke, I clicked through the TV dial to survey several weather forecasts: Channel 5 puts Lowell on the…
Read More »Big day at Western Avenue Studios this Saturday
With April 2 being the first Saturday of the month, Western Avenue Studios will have its normal Open Studios during the day, but there’s much more this month. Here’s the schedule: –Noon to 5 PM, First Saturday Open Studios –5 PM, Q&A/PERFORMANCE: This show is open to everyone but our…
Read More »Sunday, May 22, Book Event: Save the Date
Sunday, May 22, is a day to mark on your calendars if you are interested in literature, Lowell, the creative economy, poetry, history, America, and more. If the planets line up correctly, there should be four new books released that day by Kate Hanson Foster, Paul Hudon, Bob Forrant &…
Read More »“Remember the Ladies”
First Lady Abigail Adams (1744-1818) On this last day of March – Women’s History Month – it is fitting to note that on this day – March 31, 1776 – in a personal letter – Abigail Adams urged her husband John Adams “to remember the ladies.” As the Continental…
Read More »Art of, by, and for America
March 31, 2011
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The NYTimes today has an article about a new art project involving tractor trailers and a bunch of activist visual artists and writers and performers. Read about The Great American Art Trip as reported by Randy Kennedy, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of arts…
Read More »George Kenngott: Lowell in 1912
The recent release of the 2010 census got me thinking about the demographics of Lowell. That prompted me to open my copy of “The Record of a City: A Social Survey of Lowell Massachusetts”, a fascinating book written by George F. Kenngott in 1912. The book is both enlightening and…
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