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Downtown Lowell was alive this afternoon as hundreds of people traveled to the five establishments that were participating the this year’s Hot Chocolate Competition. At each place, you exchanged a quarter for a 4-ounce Dixie cup filled with hot chocolate. One was served plain, another gave you a choice of…
Read More »In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas. From the UMass Lowell website: The South Campus garage will provide parking spaces for 762 cars on South Campus. Tucked between Mahoney Hall and Riverview Parking Lot, the garage will be conveniently located to all South Campus facilities. The six-and-one-half level open-parking facility is a 191,000-square-foot…
Read More »Contact: Matthew Corcoran, corcoran00@gmail.com, 978-677-1069 INVENTORY, BY ADAM H. MARCHAND, AN INSTALLATION OPENING AT THE WASHINGTON STREET ART CENTER, 10 NOVEMBER SOMERVILLE, Mass. — With Inventory, Adam H. Marchand has cataloged thirty years’ worth of his possessions on index cards. On each card (there are 2,500) he has typed brief…
Read More »Taking advantage of an early Thanksgiving dinner with family and a late Patriots game, we ventured to Tyngsboro for a 3:50 pm screening of Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s new film about our 16th President. If you have any interest in American history or politics, you will immediately judge the movie a…
Read More »Exerpts from the John F. Kennedy Library website: Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas… Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedys. The car turned off…
Read More »The iconic Norman Rockwell “Freedom From Want” ilustration, 1943. Just what do you know about the history and tradition of Thanksgiving and the turkey? 1. Which wild bird was NOT on the Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving menu? a) turkey; b) duck; c) goose; d) bald eagle 2. Which U.S. President established Thanksgiving…
Read More »With a large part of Lowell’s population either from Cambodia or of Cambodian descent, we should pay particular attention to the first-ever visit to Cambodia by a sitting U.S. President. Here are some stories about the visit from that region’s media: From the Phnomh Penh Post: “Obama’s meeting with Cambodia’s…
Read More »Teatro Del Loto Performs Arturo Giovannitti’s “The Walker” When: Friday, November 23, 2012, 7:00pm.; doors open at 6:30pm Where: Everett Mills ? 15 South Union Street, 6th floor, Lawrence, MA. One night only! Straight from performances at Yale University and City College in New York, an extraordinary play will make…
Read More »The following post is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This fall, after 27 months of bitter negotiations, the Boston Teachers Union accepted a contract providing new forms of teacher evaluation and remediation for under-performing teachers. At the same time, they turned thumbs down on extending the school…
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