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After two consecutive nights of watching the Westminster Dog Show I kind of fancy myself an expert in dog breeding. Well, I guess there is only one way to put this… the judges at the Westminster Dog Show and I totally disagree. They awarded “Best in Show” to the Scottish…
Read More »This note is from Steve Edington, president of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Inc., from the group’s website at www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org “Plans are already shaping up for the 2011 October LCK Festival which, this year, will run from October 6-9. We’re building this year’s theme around the anticipated release in August, 2011, of…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares these street scenes of Lowell
Read More »Last night I traveled to the Needham Public Library to hear Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg talk about his new book, “The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817.” Lowell is the man for whom our city is named, although he died (at age 42) before the city was even founded.…
Read More »Monday night I watched the very exciting 2011 Beanpot final on TV. Boston College defeated Northeastern in overtime by a score of 7-6. While the consolation game earlier that evening wasn’t televised, someone who was there told me that was a fantastic game as well, with Harvard beating Boston University…
Read More »Move Lowell Forward, a city-based political action committee, hosts a planning and development forum tomorrow night (Thursday, February 17, 2011) at 7 pm at the Market Mill/Lowell Art and Design Center at 256 Market Street (just across the Market Mills Courtyard from the National Park Visitor Center). The guest speaker…
Read More »On February 9 a two alarm fire raged through the Contrast Glass Service building on Andover Street in Wilmington. North Reading and Tewksbury Fire Departments assisted the Wilmington in containing the blaze. Citizen Journalist tonytwister18 captured the event on video and posted it on YouTube.
Read More »Here’s the link for all the happenings for the annual Kerouac birthday celebration in March. For more details see www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org
Read More »This Civil War ballad – ‘The Slain at Baltimore” – was sent to us By Martha Mayo – Director of the UML/Center for Lowell History and longtime member of the Lowell Historical Society. The ballad was made available to the public as a Civil War penny-song sheet or as a broadside.…
Read More »In an op-ed column in today’s NYTimes, Scott Turow, Paul Aiken, and James Shapiro wonder aloud what would have happened in Shakespearean times if the plays had been “open source” material as opposed to ticketed experiences at the Globe Theater. The implications for today’s Web world and beyond are immense,…
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