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From the UMass Lowell Honors Program: “The Honors Program is proud to welcome the award-winning filmmaker Henry Ferrini to campus on November 18 as this year’s Honors Community Fellow. Ferrini will screen his 30-minute film, Lowell Blues, at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street in Lowell, at 4:00, followed…
Read More »A few days ago we posted a Veterans Day essay by Steve O’Connor. Steve ended with a passage about the grave of Edward Rowe who was killed in World War One. After reading the essay, our World War One archivist, Eileen Loucraft, found the 1918 newspaper story announcing Rowe’s death.…
Read More »This blog is in good historical company as a publication that regularly features poetry. Read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s four poems in the first issue of the Atlantic magazine, published on November 9, 1857.
Read More »The Greater Lowell Veterans Council will honor those who have served in the military with a ceremony tomorrow that begins at 10 am in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags with a speaking program to be immediately followed by a wreath laying ceremony at the various monuments on the…
Read More »The nationally recognized website Politico carries a story today with this headline: “Midterm elections offer grim omen for Scott Brown’s future.” The story quotes UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan (“Obviously, the results show that Massachusetts is, at its core, a Democratic state – It has been a reliable Democratic state…
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (3) . On a siding just north of the train station, there’s a scrap train—ground-up fenders and stoves and corroded pipes en route to the smelter, the chopped ham of American industry. In the rail yard, freight-car murals in graffiti code, the blocky colored letters…
Read More »I missed this long post on cities on October 29 over at our blogging colleague Corey Sciuto’s place, and don’t think rh.com linked to it otherwise, so here’s the one click access to a bunch of interesting ideas and observations about cities and urban life.
Read More »I don’t enjoy George Will’s columns the way I did when he started writing, but this column is less about his opinions than about the mind of Robert Weissenstein of Credit Suisse Private Banking. Read about the rapid changes in products and processes in our high-speed society. I picked this…
Read More »Sunday, Nov. 14, 3 pm Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the UMass Lowell String Project as everyone proudly reflects on the accomplishments of the String Kids and the continued growth of the organization. Special guests will be the Harlem Quartet, a group of innovative and highly engaging young Black and Latino musical…
Read More »Those of us in the pews are used to the annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. My CCHD envelope for November 21st notes: “Your gift will help groups of low-income Americans address the causes of poverty in their communities. Your generosity will secure…
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