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Read More »Sneak preview of 2011 Folk Festival performers
The Lowell Folk Festival website just posted a list of the performers who will be at this year’s Lowell Folk Festival on July 29-31, 2011: Dervish – One of Ireland’s Premier Traditional Music Groups Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun – Dieselbilly Eddie Pennington – “Travis-style” thumb-picked guitar Hector del…
Read More »February 9, 1964: The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964
Read More »JFK Library and Museum Receives $150,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant to Preserve Jacqueline B. Kennedy Collection
You might have missed this important preservation funding announcement last week amid the angst of snow storms, school closings and snow-laden roofs. At a gathering in the Emancipation Room at President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C. – a National Trust Historic Site and a Save America’s Treasures success story – it was announced…
Read More »On Broadway (in Lowell)
From Tony Sampas: Making my way to the pastry shop. Walking past the beautifully restored Community Family building on Broadway
Read More »Health law bill includes nasty surprise, due in 2018 by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congressman Stephen Lynch was against the President’s health reform proposal before he was for it, and now he thinks that Republican efforts to repeal the law are “a colossal waste of time.” Better, he says, to focus on…
Read More »Community Supported Agriculture registration underway
For many years I understood the importance of adding more vegetables to my diet, but I struggled to move beyond frozen peas and corn. Two years ago I discovered Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and its summer-long flow of locally grown, fresh vegetables of both the old standby varieties like sweet…
Read More »More Smith Baker Center History
George Koumantzelis photographed this historic event at the Smith Baker Center in June 1988, on the eve of the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative. More than 1,000 people attended what was described as the most important poetry reading in America of that year. Shown here on stage are Allen…
Read More »Two Chelmsford Videos
Here are a couple of interesting videos coming out of Chelmsford. This video was posted by Teamreadyrealestate. That’s Joe Ready and his brother of Ready Real Estate having a little fun after shoveling off a clients roof. The boys are the children of the well known Dennis and Donna Ready…
Read More »A Lowell Connection: Healy Highest Paid Muni-Manager in the Commonwealth
John M. Guilfoil of the Boston Globe Staff write today that Cambridge City Manager – Robert Healy – is the highest paid municipal manager in the Commonwealth and he reports that Healy – quoted in a Walter Robinson /Cambridge Day article – says that he is worth every penny. Healy who has served as city…
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