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This poem dates from December 1977 and was reprinted in my recent book What Is the City? At the time I wrote this I was trying different forms for my poems and pushing myself to write in a more open way with lots of unusual images and unexpected language. The original…
Read More »The following entry is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The news that WikiLeaks is making public over 250,000 secret State Department communications is shocking. But, while many of the diplomats who wrote (or were written about in) the messages may be angry, embarrassed or having to do…
Read More »More views of the Francis Gate by Tony Sampas.
Read More »From the 1934 Celebration – Authentic Souvenir Pin – 200th Anniversary of the Town of Tewksbury The town of Tewksbury – once a part of the town of Billerica – celebrates the 276th anniversary of it charter on December 4. Under the auspices of the Tewksbury Historical Society, Charter…
Read More »One of our regular readers, Allegra Williams, is the city’s neighborhood planner and was the manager of last June’s Innovative Cities Conference. She attended a conference on cities in Brazil earlier this year and heard urban specialist Jaime Lerner (architect, urban planner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, and a former…
Read More »I’m starting to see some early indicators of a turnaround in real estate in the Greater Lowell region. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it may not be the beginning of the end of the housing slump, but it could very well be the end of the beginning. Here at the end…
Read More »The Lowell SUN is reporting on breaking news that UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan has asked to have his name removed from the list of candidates being considered to replace Jack Wilson as president of the University of Massachusetts system. University of Massachusetts Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan has dropped out…
Read More »The Boston Globe is reporting today on its breaking news Business Updates that DiagnosisONE has moved its headquarters from Nashua, N.H., to the CrossPoint Towers in Lowell. …The opening of a larger headquarters office is the latest example of DiagnosisONE’s aggressive growth plans as the company expands its operations to…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured out to the Francis Gatehouse to photograph the ingenious gate designed by James B Francis that saved downtown Lowell from flooding on several occasions.
Read More »Coming up Thursday, and through this weekend, the Middlesex Community College Theatre Department will perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This wonderful tragedy revolves around Macbeth’s desire to become king of Scotland and the murderous acts this ambition drives him to. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday December 2 and 3 at…
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