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To support communal feelings, a nation must seek to preserve certain cherished institutions as well as engage in creative innovation; it must value collective responsibility as well as individual incentive; it must espouse goals over and above those of economic self-aggrandizement. If a commitment to the ends of economic individualism…
Read More »F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture & Dinner Discussion, April 7, 5.30 pm, reception; 6.30 pm, dinner & lecture. Join keynote speaker Roger Cressey, a graduate of UMass Lowell, whose vast knowledge of security and counterterrorism has led him from the halls of UMass Lowell to the White House, for a cocktail…
Read More »The following message was sent to colleagues in the National Park Service by Michael Reynolds, Deputy Regional Director, National Park Service-Northeast Region in Philadelphia, Penn. As soon as more details about funeral arrangements are announced, we will share them on this blog. Sandy’s many friends in Lowell are saddened by her…
Read More »Lucy Larcom On the second floor of the National Park Service’s Boott Cotton Mills Museum, the history exhibition opens with a quote from the writings of Lucy Larcom—poet, memoirist, and editor. The quote captures her sense of the burgeoning industrial city when she was a girl in Lowell in the…
Read More »Bryan Marquard of the Boston Globe remembers playwright Jon Lipsky, a longtime activist in the Boston theater community. Lowell area people may recall that he wrote “Maggie’s Riff” for Merrimack Repertory Theatre, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “Maggie Cassidy,” which is set mostly in the city and at Lowell High School.…
Read More »Composer, musician, and writer Bob Martin is one of the great living artists of Lowell. He’s been touring in Europe for many weeks now, playing for crowds of people who love his Americana music. Thanks to him and Dave Robinson on Facebook for this link to an interview with Bob conducted by…
Read More »Please reserve your space now for the timely lecture about the importance of diversity in health care professions by UMass Lowell Prof. of Nursing Margaret Knight on Monday, March 28, at 12 noon, at the UML Inn & Conference Center. “As the U.S. demographics continue to shift, providing culturally competent…
Read More »This is interesting. Follow the “Room for Debate” topic of the day on career counseling from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Read the feature here, and buy the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Poet Marie Louise St. Onge, who has deep roots in Lowell’s French Canadian-American community, sent this poem from Maine.—PM . Thaw . The Merrimack loosed from the jaws of late March speeds by high. And dark smooth currents run fast not like a steed whose head is high mane and tail…
Read More »Out walking this morning with my brother in the middle zone of the Highands, looping around Penniman, outer Cupples Square, Liberty, Calvary Baptist Church, South Walker, Shaw, Eastern Electrical Repair, the Morey School, our one-and-only urban glacier monument, and the Donut Shack. Strong sunshine even with weather reports calling for some amount of snow…
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