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The following entry is cross posted from Jack Neary’s own Blog, Shards. So much has been written over the past few days about my friend–our friend, everybody’s friend–former State Rep Ed LeLacheur and his boundless enthusiasm for life and service, that nothing I can contribute here can really add much…
Read More »The front page of “The Arts” section in the NYTimes has an article about the long and winding road to the cinema screen for the mostly Lowell-filmed Micky Ward bio-pic “The Fighter,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the boxer, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams, among others. The nationwide release date is…
Read More »Lowell native Dr. Brian C. Mitchell wrote of the Irish in Lowell 1821-1861 and the Lowell Acre’s “Paddy Camps”. The wire story the other day was just a teaser. A story in today’s Globe tells the fuller story of the teaming-up of students from UMass Lowell with researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast for…
Read More »People are reading about Lowell’s Irish-American roots all over New England this morning. The UMass Lowell/Queens University of Northern Ireland archaeological project on the grounds of St. Patrick Church in the Acre earned major coverage in the Boston Globe today (bottom of Page One). I was on a National Park canal tour…
Read More »Sixty two years ago today the iconic TV show Candid Camera first aired on ABC. Few people (or at least me anyway) remember that Candid Camera actually began as a radio show called Candid Microphone. In June of 1947 Candid Microphone hit the airwaves with a bang. Its quick success prompted…
Read More »Joseph Stiglitz is one of the great economists of our time, a reputation that was secured even before he accurately predicted the financial collapse and its magnitude. He is a professor at Columbia University and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. But perhaps more importantly, he is a…
Read More »On this day in history August 9th – a literary note – In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden’’ which described Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond, was first published. Walden Pond State Reservation Concord/Lincoln, Massachusetts From the Massachusetts Depatment of Conservation and Recreation website (more information here): Henry David Thoreau lived…
Read More »Thanks to the Boston Globe for this reminder about the Lowell Quilt Festival – a city-wide celebration of quilts – scheduled for August 12-14 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorum with a special exhibit “Art Quilts Lowell” at the Brush Gallery on Market Street in downtown Lowell. Check for more Festival…
Read More »1990 was a big year in state politics. The voters elected a new Governor and Lt Governor, Treasurer and Attorney General. The following post has been added to our “Elections” section (see link at upper right) for future reference: In 1990, John Kerry was elected to his second term in…
Read More »Here is an interesting slide show about the town of Tewksbury originally posted by littlewolfmesta
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