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For the next few days I will publish sections of an essay about Lowell. The essay in a slightly different form first appeared in “The Offering,” the literary magazine of UMass Lowell, in 2007.—PM . Cut from American Cloth In the middle of the nineteenth century, workers in the red-brick…
Read More »Writer and blog reader Steve O’Connor shares with us an essay for Veterans Day that was originally written for the UML Sunrise program: My daughter plays softball for the Lowell Mariners in the Oliveira League. Her home field is Ventura, tucked in the corner of Lowell at the back of…
Read More »A friend sent a link to “Suburban Pioneer: Musings on Life in the Merrimack Valley”, a blog that seems to have been around for a while but which had thus far escaped my attention. I’m not sure who writes it, but it seems to be centered in the Lawrence-area with…
Read More »Economist and writer Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of the well-known blog, Beat the Press, spoke at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center today as part of the Parker Lecture Series. Baker’s topic was “The Housing Crash Recession” and…
Read More »Last June, Lowell hosted a conference on Innovative Cities that was attended by people from around the country and overseas. The late Tony Judt wrote about his days in New York City. An excerpt from his forthcoming book “The Memory Chalet’ is in today’s NYTimes. His description of the pluralistic…
Read More »David Paul Kuhn of www.realclearpolitics.com talks to Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia about why the “Reagan Democrats” are leaving or have left the party. Read his article here.
Read More »HuffingtonPost.com advises us that on this 50th anniversary of the election of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States, LIFE.com published today never-before seen photos of JFK from the archives. Fifty years ago today, on Nov. 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States.…
Read More »The BostonHerald.com is reporting that the long-awaited sale of the Caritas Christi Health Care sysytem – formerly owned by the Archdiocese of Boston – to Cerberus Capital management has been completed. The sale was dependent – among other things – on the approval of Attorney General Martha Coakley, licensure of the…
Read More »Tony Sampas turns his camera to some monuments to veterans in Lowell
Read More »Others have tried to adapt and reuse the abundant mill space in the city of Lawrence with varying degrees of success. In today’s Boston Herald, Thomas Grillo tells the story of pizza chef and executive Salvatore Lupoli and his drive to deliver on his promise to restore a mill complex…
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