February 3rd, 2012
by PaulM
Kerouac played football like he wrote, with a lot of power and invention. He was an athlete at the typewriter who could compose with speed and accuracy. It is fascinating to see how he keeps popping up in the news stream. Today, boston.com and the Bos. Globe include an arts note among the Super Bowl news from Indianapolis—the legendary scroll typescript of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is featured in a big museum display in the city along with other cultural treasures from the collection of Colts owner Jim Irsay. The scroll photo illustrates the news note. Read about it here.
Jack Kerouac in the 1938 Lowell-Lawrence football game.
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February 3rd, 2012
by DickH
Photo by Tony Sampas
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February 3rd, 2012
by Marie
President Obama has had an ongoing focus on helping veterans and their families. In his State of the Union remarks last week President Obama announced his plan for American Jobs Act to spur police and firefighter hiring in 2012. This action as well as a plan patterned on FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps are targeted towards helping veterans. Today the details will be revealed for a $1 billion Veterans Job Corps that the White House says “will put up to 20,000 veterans to work over the next five years on projects to preserve and restore national parks and other federal, state and local lands.”
According to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar the Civilian Conservation Corps - established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Depression to put hundreds of thousands of the unemployed to work on projects in government parks and lands - serves as a “very good indicator” of what the administration hopes to accomplish with the Veterans Job Corps.
Read more here at the washingtonpost.com.
Read the White House press statement “President Obama’s Plan to Put Veterans Back to Work” here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room
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February 3rd, 2012
by Marie
In today’s New York Times op-ed colummist Paul Krugman puts former Massachusetts Governor and GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s lack of concern for the poor “in context.” His statement: “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” has yet again got the pundits and his opponents all stirred-up. You can read Krugman’s take here and make your own “contextual” evaluation.
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February 3rd, 2012
by PaulM
Related to a post of mine a few days ago about the Museum of Science in Boston planning a $5M Life Sciences exhibit, here is news from boston.com about the N. E. Aquarium making improvements. Again, this raises the question of how a smaller cultural hub like Lowell should respond to the vigorous expansion of cultural attractions in Boston, especially its museums, in order to compete for museum-goers.
The New England Aquarium plans a $15 million facelift, including renovation of its Giant Ocean Tank and surrounding exhibit spaces plus opening a new ground-floor center focused on conservation and research efforts. Scheduled for completion in July 2013, it marks the final phase of a five-year, $42.5 million expansion and renovation program for the Boston aquarium, which opened on the city’s waterfront in 1969. (from www.boston.com and Boston Globe)
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February 3rd, 2012
by Tony
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