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This video contains some great images of Lowell. It was taken by a UMasss Lowell student for one of his classes. Originally posted by happyskateboarding
Read More »Home Page, NYTimes Online, Our Own Andre Dubus III
February 23, 2011
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PaulM
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“Townie” is a better, harder book than anything the younger Mr. Dubus has yet written; it pays off on every bet that’s been placed on him. Today’s www.nytimes.com on the home page has a photo, headline, and lead-in to a review of Andre Dubus III’s new memoir “Townie,” in which he…
Read More »Museum of Fine Arts: Art of the Americas wing
After reading much about the recently-opened Art of the Americas wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, I finally paid a visit and was quite impressed. I’m not a frequent visitor to the MFA and in the past, I spent more time keeping track of the students I…
Read More »Memories-to-Stories
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 »Do Women Suffer More in the “Mancovery”?
February 22, 2011
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Marie
Posted in Education, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics, Culture
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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 »MoJo of Lowell: The new face of capitalism
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 »Eliot Presbyterian Church
Tony Sampas shares some photos of the stained glass windows at the Eliot Presbyterian Church
Read More »Quincy Massachusetts a Model for the “Big Apple”?
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 »Raw Video of Protests in Libya
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: Lynn Shoeworkers Strike
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…
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