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‘The Lowellian’ (ULowell Alumni Newsletter, Spring 1981)
Following are excerpts from “The Lowellian,” a newsletter for alumni and friends of the University of Lowell, volume 1, number 1, from Spring 1981. Director of Alumni Relations Catherine Quinn conceived of the new publication, which was written and edited by me and designed by Leo Panas of the Art…
Read More »Cambodian New Year, 1985
I took notes at this event in 1985 and wrote the essay soon after. It was later revised and then published in my collection of Lowell writings called What Is the City? (2006). I saw a Facebook photo from the ceremony at Roberto Clemente Park today, a picture of the “Food…
Read More »Lowell Art Archives, 1981
The following extracts are from four issues of the “Artifacts” newsletter of the Art Alive! artists cooperative that operated in Lowell in the early 1980s (formed some time before June 1980). I recently found these documents in my files, an incomplete set of Volume 1 of “Artifacts.” The four issues…
Read More »Jack Kerouac’s Birthday (1922-1969)
Happy B-day to the old man writer of Centralville who was old at six years and never got younger because he could see over the edge of the horizon and got a glimpse of the void, making it more or less indefensible to get a job in a factory when…
Read More »‘Walking Home for Supper’
I lived in Pawtucketville for several years, from the late 1970s to early ’80s. I often write in response to a place or to make sense of a place, and that neighborhood was no different. I lived on the top floor of an old triple-decker, a sea-green block on a…
Read More »‘Dana Point’: A Pacific Christmas
I wrote this poem on the West Coast, when I was in graduate school at the University of California in 1983-84. I had moved across country and wanted to write something about the coincidence of living in Dana Point, which had a Massachusetts and even a Lowell connection. The composition…
Read More »UMass Lowell Author Event: Nelson Mandela’s Guard & Later Friend
The late Nelson Mandela with Christo Brand (web photo courtesy of nelsonmandela.org) UMass Lowell’s Office of the Provost cordially invites the community to a special event on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. in Moloney Hall at University Crossing featuring Christo Brand, author of “Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend.” Brand was Nelson Mandela’s…
Read More »Public Art Opportunity for Lowell
City Councilor Dan Rourke is urging the City Manager to pursue funding for a new public art initiative in Lowell. Blogger Gerry Nutter wrote about this effort and cited the facts behind the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge for Cities: Bloomberg Philanthropies is launching a new program to support temporary…
Read More »Lowell History from International Institute
Historians at UMass Lowell continue to mine the newly rediscovered archives of the International Institute of Lowell for stories and photographs that help tell the story of the organization and of the city of Lowell. This photo shows at Arabic language class taught by Mrs. Victoria Estfam at the Institute. …
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