Lowell’s John Schneider has played a key role in advancing the Gateway Cities initiative at the MassINC think tank. Read more about the work here and scroll down on the page to see the link to Sunday’s Globe editorial about Gateway Cities. This is the first in a series about Gateway Cities. Lowell is mentioned…
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UMASS LOWELL, DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES ARTISTIC MANIFESTATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE Symposium Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA 01854 Saturday, December 11, 2010 Program Moderator and Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney, Professor of Art History, Chair, Department of Cultural Studies, UMass Lowell 9:00-9:30, Coffee and Greetings 9:45–10:15,…
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This coming Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 8 pm, Image Theater will present its sixth annual “Keep Your Kids at Home Naughty Readings” at The Old Court at the corner of Central and Middle Street in downtown Lowell. Organizers describe this event as “seven original ‘adult only’ plays that go…
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Author Jay Atkinson of Methuen and the world has a new book of short stories: “Tauvernier Street.” In today’s Globe and on boston.com reviewer Joseph Peschel rates the collection a good read, especially the stories that evoke Merrimack Valley life in our time, from the 1960s to the present day.…
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“A plea to go to Lowell” – from exhibit on mills in 19th century America in the Smithsonian American History Museum… taken by a family member on a recent trip to D.C. (Thanks MK.)
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Tony Sampas shares some close-ups of the old Central Fire Station at 45 Palmer Street.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell Thursday, December 2, 2010 2:00 – 8:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell MA UMass Lowell’s Center for Women & Work hosts Women’s Works: A Celebration of the Creativity of Women. This event will be part craft fair, part art show,…
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I spent last weekend, including Thanksgiving, in Wells, Maine. You can just image my shock when told that Sheriff Jim DiPaola committed suicide in Wells Friday night. When I heard the news I immediately checked the Internet and discovered DiPaola spent his last moments in Lafayette’s Ledgeview Ocean Resort. The…
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Versatile actor Leslie Nielsen has died. Although he is better known for his comic roles in “Naked Gun” and “Airplane,” I’ll always remember him first for playing General Francis Marion, “The Swamp Fox” of the Revolutionary War, in the eight-part Disney TV series that ran from 1959 to 1961. Disney had bet…
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After ten years of hosting and maintaining websites, I fully understand that unexpected problems do occur, so I have a bit of sympathy for Comcast over last evening’s massive outage of that company’s internet service. But not too much sympathy, because Comcast is, after all, a billion dollar company that…
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