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Today’s NYTimes includes an article by Felicia R. Lee about filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris and his Digital Diaspora Family Reunion project. It’s History by another name. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of reporting.
Read More »Lowell Women’s Week – February 27-March 8, 2011 The theme: “Women’s Strength: Achievement, Power and Vision” As the annual celebration – Lowell Women’s Week nears, it’s hard not to reflect on the place of women. Lowell has historically been an important place for women – their rights, working conditions, their…
Read More »The Globe has a front-page story today about MoJo, a start-up apparel manufacturer based in Lowell that pays above the minimum wage and provides quality benefits to its employees, including free day care (the company’s name is a combination of “Moms” and “Jobs”). Because of that last item, most of…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some photos of the stained glass windows at the Eliot Presbyterian Church
Read More »Snow removal in Quincy, January 2011 (Craig Goedecke/For The Patriot Ledger) In light of the climatological and financial winter we are experiencing here and across the country – one of the editorials in yesterday’s New York Times was intriguing. It appears in the eyes of the NYT editorial writer…
Read More »This amazing raw video shows protesters in Libya clashing with the Army. I posted this video on richardhowe.com just three hours after it was made available on YouTube. This is yet another example of how the Internet is changing the world. This video was originally posted by epressam
Read More »MassMoments tells us that on this day – February 22, 1860 – the shoeworkers of Lynn, Massachusetts went on strike by the thousands. The strikers insisted that “the rights they sought to preserve were the same rights enjoyed by free men everywhere — the right not to be controlled by…
Read More »The Legacy Project at Lowell General Hospital will add 100 new beds, and expand the Emergency and Trauma Centers nearly three fold. As the project moves along employees were recently given the opportunity to select new patient furniture. This video was originally posted by lowellgeneralhealth
Read More »The Mobile Pantry of the Merrimack Valley Food Bank provides good food, health info, and social contact for Greater Lowell residents, “many of whom are single elderly women, living alone, economically challenged, and have long term disabilities.” The Mobile Pantry serves more than 320 people, each month bringing 35 pounds of…
Read More »NYTimes columnist Bob Herbert keeps beating the drum for his fellow Americans who are suffering most in this stubborn economic downturn. Today, he cites letters written to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by people whose lives and faith in the “system” are shaken. Read his thoughts here, and get the…
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