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Tewksbury Slide Show
Here is an interesting slide show about the town of Tewksbury originally posted by littlewolfmesta
Read More »August 4, 2010 (a Surrounded by Idiots Entry) by Jack Neary
The entry below is crossed posted from local playwright Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I would like to introduce you to Timmy on the right, and Eddie, below. They are very sweet little dogs owned by my brother and my sister-in-law, and they live with all of us in Derry,…
Read More »Bob Herbert: A Cause for Concern…for Alarm
Writing this week in the NYT, columnist Bob Herbert decried the educational slippage in the nation. He says we’re collectively, but especially the younger and up-and-coming generations, getting softer intellectually. He cites figures. UMass Lowell, I should say, is doing its part to buck the trend described in the column. Note the comments, too, which…
Read More »Deli Society
I read Marie’s post about the Coffee Party before I went to buy groceries at the Market Basket at Stadium Plaza, Rte. 38 in Tewksbury (I always think I’m still in Lowell there). Anyway, I was standing in line with my number waiting to be called on at the deli…
Read More »Greater Lowell’s Community Foundation Grants Count
James Clark Westford Historical Society artifacts As a founding member of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation and a member of the Foundation’s Distribution Committee, I was interested in a nugget of information in today’s SUN. In the article “Keeing History Dry” – Westford Historical Society member James Clark notes that…
Read More »Coffee, Conversation, Civility, Convention
If you were wondering what was happening on the Coffee Party USA scene, the group has scheduled a national convention for September 24-26, 2010 in Louisville Kentucky. For a reminder about the movement’s origins and mission check here. For a quick FYI: The Vision: Reason, truth & civility in public affairs; A…
Read More »Minute Man National Park
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. We took advantage of today’s beautiful weather and took an excursion to Minute Man National Park in nearby Concord, Lincoln and Lexington.…
Read More »The Worker – Lowell, Massachusetts
Statue of “The Worker” Public Art in Lowell, Massachusetts
Read More »AP: UMass Lowell’s Archaeological Dig in the Acre
Boston.com is carrying a news wire report from the Associated Press about UMass Lowell students and archaeologists from Queens University in Northern Ireland digging for traces of the early Irish presence in the Acre. They’ll be excavating around St. Patrick Church (1831) beginning the week of August 16. The project is…
Read More »Call for Entries for Public Art at Appleton Mills
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Request for Qualifications, Appleton Mills Art Installation Project Eligibility: Open to all artists/designers/teams residing in New EnglandProject Description: Trinity Financial invites artists/designers/teams to forward qualifications for an artwork to be permanently installed in the four-story atrium of the Appleton Mills redevelopment, an historic textile mill located…
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