Saw this in the daily ad in the New York Times, Arts section. Click here for the Jeopardy Clue of the Day, Category: American Authors.
Hint: It’s a Lowell guy.
March 6th, 2012
‘An American Journey’ with Revels Rep Co. in Lawrence, 3/10
The Bread and Roses Strike Centennial Project continues this Saturday, March 10, at 2 pm, with a concert by the popular Revels Repertory Company performing “An American Journey.” For ticket info click here.
March 6th, 2012
Lowell’s Bon Marché Store Remembered by “Forgotten New England”
So many of us have fond and quite personal memories of the Bon Marché store – longtime anchor for retail business on Merrimack Street in downtown Lowell. The store’s founder Frederic Mitchell opened his first store on Merrimack Street in 1878. The Bon Marché – as we knew it – was brought by Allied Stores in 1976 and made into a Jordan Marsh. After extensive renovations, it became home to the Lowell School Department’s main office. Today, the building and annex houses the central operations of the state’s second largest community action agency – Community Teamwork, Inc.
Today in “Forgotten New England” – using some examples of the store’s newspaper advertising – readers get a real sense of the Bon Marché – once touted as ” The Bon Marché Dry Goods Company – the largest department store in New England.” The store is truly entwined with the history of the Lowell community. Here’s an exerpt from the article:
A few years later, as the Bon Marché and the rest of the downtown community lived through WWII, the store instituted wartime hours and again offered war bonds and stamps to its customers to support the war effort. Lowell experienced a brief economic boom in the war years, mostly from the increased need for clothing produced by its remaining textile mills and its involvement in munitions manufacturing.
Read the full article here at forgottennewengland.com.
Do you have memories to share about the Bon Marché?
The Bon Marché building in downtown Lowell during a “festive” time.
March 6th, 2012
Boston and Maine No. 410
Boston and Maine No. 410, now parked along Dutton Street at Merrimack. This six-wheeled “steam switcher” was built in 1911 by the American Locomotive Company in Manchester, NH. It weighs 74 tons. Photos by Tony Sampas.
March 6th, 2012
‘Whitewater Rafting’ by Richard Marion; Register for His Talk at Dracut Library on March 27
Coming soon to the Concord River. “Whitewater Rafting” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
“Lowell: The Observed and Painted City”— Register for an illustrated lecture by Richard Marion at the Moses Greeley Parker Library in Dracut on March 27, 7 p.m.
Richard Marion, a local artist for more than thirty years, will be discussing his artwork and the subject of much of his artwork, the city of Lowell. His paintings and drawings have been praised as imaginative and bold, and his distinctive use of line and color have combined in a style that is Marion’s signature.
Richard Marion captures, in his linear drawings, landmarks of the city. With ink, pencil, and watercolor, his posters and montages of Lowell and its surrounding environment reveal an eye for the essential and picturesque composition.” A. Schecter, Lowell Sun
A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, the Boston Museum School, Chicago School of Interior Design, and Art Institute of Philadelphia, Marion has served on the Advisory Boards of the Massachusetts Arts Lottery and the University of Lowell’s Art Department. He was the founder of Gallery 21, Lowell’s first commercial art gallery.
Richard Marion outside his Gallery 21 on Hurd St., Lowell, 1979. Web photo courtesy of Kevin Harkins, Harkins Photo (c) 1979, 2012. For more images by Kevin Harkins or www.harkinsphoto.wordpress.com
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