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I like the awards shows on TV this time of year. They summarize. It’s a great opportunity to catch up to the culture that never stops changing, adding to itself, morphing, circling back and repeating, sprouting new shoots, blending forms and forging new arrangements, all that and more. The Grammy Awards…
Read More »President Obama recently appeared on FOX’s Bill O’Reilly Show…of course, Saturday Night Live didn’t waste time giving us a look.
Read More »MassMoments tells us this morning that in 1849 – the first American-made Valentine cards were created and sold in Worcester, Massachusetts by Mt. Holyoke graduate Esther Howland. Modeled on the English-style Valentine, her fancy designs, embossed, cut and colored paper along with romantic sentiments and hidden messages soon grew into a…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters sent this post as a follow-up to his earlier essay on the “Native American History of Lowell.” As a child, television taught me that the Native American, the “Indian,” was savage and without Christian scruples. We have since learned that those with the Christian scruples were…
Read More »“Lowell Firefighting” on Facebook reminds us that it was this week one year ago that one of two massive winter fires occurred on Bridge Street in Lowell, and points us to some incredible photos that accompany this blog post by an eyewitness to the fire.
Read More »Friday afternoon I traveled to McKenna-Ouellette Funeral Home on Hildreth Street to attend the wakes of Rudolphe “Red” Ouellette and Alfred “Nick” Favreau, two life-long residents of Lowell who were friends throughout their 88 years of life, who died within hours of each other on the same day, and who…
Read More »Erin Smith of the SUN uncovered another piece of the Kerouac experience in Lowell with her story about faithful followers clearing the snow from his gravesite all winter. Read her article here, and get the SUN if you want more. web photo courtesy of juggle.com
Read More »These ten districts will be downsized in to nine districts as a result of the 2010 Census. (Note: Include Middlesex above with Essex.) A headline in yesterday’s MetroWest Daily News asks: ” Is there political gamesmanship in Mass. redistricting?” Redistricting in Massachusetts – and elsewhere – is always political – it’s the nature…
Read More »Read the electronic version of the UMass Lowell Newsline publication. The February isssue is here. Of special interest to the community are brief articles on findings from the Lowell Plan-UML Downtown Initiative, the acquisition of the former St. Joe’s Hospital, and year one of the Tsongas Center under UML control.
Read More »Today we celebrate Charles Darwin’s birthday. The great biologist was born 202 years ago, meaning that it has been just over 151 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species. I have written in the past about his ideas, so to avoid repeating myself I would like to…
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