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This video was originally post by 1teacherman. Here is the YouTube description: The Worthen House, Lowell, MA. One of four intact pulley driven fan systems and the only one still in its original building.
Read More »The Globe and boston.com include an occasional feature about travels called “Passport” that is written by people in the Boston area, a kind of citizen journalism feature. This article by young student Akshan deAlwis describes a recent trip to Cambodia. The focus is a visit to the Angkor Association of the…
Read More »Next month will mark the 30th anniversary of my one and only visit to a casino. On Labor Day weekend 1980, a group of us drove all night through the desert from Fort Huachuca, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. I may have tossed a few coins in a slot machine,…
Read More »Ok, so you’re Sarah Palin and you hear that your daughter Bristol’s boyfriend/ex-boyfriend/ fiance/ex-fiance Levi Johnston is planning on running for your old job…Mayor of Wasilla, tell me, what the heck goes through your head (if anything). Me? If I was Palin, I’d be thinking…”this pain in the ass is…
Read More »While we are talking about books, here is the link to an excerpt from Neil Miller’s new book “Banned in Boston” from Beacon Press, which appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine this past Sunday. The book delves into the history of the notorious and powerful Watch and Ward Society that…
Read More »Our fall season of guided tours of Lowell Cemetery commences this Saturday (August 14) at 10 am at the Knapp Avenue gate which is right next to Shedd Park. The tour is free, open to the public and requires no pre-registration. It takes about 90 minutes and involves walking over…
Read More »I just heard that this coming Monday night (August 16) at 7 pm at Lowell High School’s Little Theater, First Middlesex State Senate Democratic candidates Chris Doherty and Eileen Donoghue will face off in a debate sponsored by local radio station WCAP. With only four weeks to go to the…
Read More »I’m not the first to say this is a powerful book. Filkins won awards from the National Book Critics Circle and NYTimes Book Review. It was a best-seller in hardcover. I lent my first copy to someone, and it went into the book-loan twilight zone, which is why I bought…
Read More »UMass Lowell’s Frank Talty provided the following details about the archaeological project in the Acre. Frank is director of academic programs in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He’s been instrumental in shaping the project in collaboration with administrators and faculty at Queens College in Belfast. Following is an excerpt from…
Read More »Please check out Nancye’s World, the newest addition to Lowell’s thriving blogosphere. Nancye Tuttle, longtime arts and lifestyle reporter at the Lowell Sun, will use Nancye’s World to report on arts, entertainment, cultural happenings and all that is interesting in Lowell, the Merrimack Valley, Boston and beyond.
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