Nancy Donahue
Governor Baker introduces Nancy at the 2019 Massachusetts Governor's Award Dinner. Nancy Donahue was a founder of the Merrimack Repertory Theater, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and she currently serves as board chair. She has helped revitalize Lowell over the past four decades as a board member—and in many cases a founder—of regional organizations, including the Cultural Office of Lowell, Lasell College, the New England Quilt Museum, UMass Lowell, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (where she served as the first woman board president), the former American Textile Museum, and the Whistler House Museum of Art, where she is now board chair.
Congresswoman Tsongas and MA Senator visit Threads of Resistance
On Wednesday, August 16, 2017, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and MA Senator Eileen M. Donoghue toured the Threads of Resistance exhibit at the New England Quilt Museum and LTC was there to capture their reactions. ltc.org
Threading Motion Project (Promo)
This film is a promo video for the following:
Merli V. Guerra's Quilt Vignettes film series showcases the work of quilters Sonya Lee Barrington, Judith Content, Janet Elwin, Diane Loomis, and Bethanne Nemesh, with performances by Luminarium Dance Company, and sound composition by Peter Broderick, Merli V. Guerra, Kimberleigh A. Holman, and Trevor James Walker.
Luminarium is proud to be launching the bi-coastal debut of this work, with its East Coast debut at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA, April 18-July 7 (in conjunction with their exhibition Silk! through which this project originated), and its West Coast debut at the San Jose Museum of Quilt & Textiles in San Jose, CA, May 8-July 21 (the oldest quilt museum in America).
Quilt Vignettes is part of Luminarium's Threading Motion Project, supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Special thanks to Michael Russell of Great Idea Media LCC for assisting with the filming of this work. All artists involved in this process have given consent to have their work presented through these films.
Merli V. Guerra, Luminarium Dance Company, 2013
Whistler House Museum of Art Downtown Lowell First Thursdays
Marieke Slovin performs in the Whistler House Museum of Art on July 3, 2014 as part of the Downtown Lowell First Thursdays.
The Whistler House Museum of Art, located in Lowell, Massachusetts, is the historic birthplace of the famous American artist, James McNeill Whistler. Established in 1878, as the Lowell Art Association Inc., it is the oldest incorporated art association in the United States. It is known internationally for its distinguished collection of 19th and early 20th century New England representational art. The Whistler House hosts many exhibits, lectures, concerts, educational and community programs, and an array of social events in the residence, gallery and adjoining Victorian park. The WHMA is located on 243 Worthen Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hours of operation are Wednesday through Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm.
Become a member today! For info visit whistlerhouse.org.
‘It’s ruthless out there’: Quilts honor dead migrants to US
‘It’s ruthless out there’: Quilts honor dead migrants to US
In this Wednesday, May 2, 2018 photo a quilt by artist Jennifer Eschedor, right, is part of the exhibit: Beyond the Border Wall, The Migrant Quilt Project, at the New England Quilt Museum, in Lowell, ...
Prairie Mosaic 802
Enjoy the vibrant collages of Lisa Hinkemeyer, fiber artist from St. Cloud, MN, learn about Prairie Sage Ed Partridge and his influence on the Winnipeg grain exhange, visit the historic Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA, and enjoy performances by hip hop musicians D. Mills and the Thrills and 2015 Poetry Out Loud state champion Caroline Huber as she reads Personal by Tony Hoagland.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and by the members of Prairie Public.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
Lowell, Massachusetts | Wikipedia audio article
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Lowell, Massachusetts
00:01:12 1 History
00:04:10 2 Zoning, development and the Massachusetts Miracle
00:07:17 3 Geography
00:08:03 3.1 Physical
00:10:38 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:13:46 4 Demographics
00:18:03 4.1 Crime
00:18:41 4.1.1 Statistics
00:19:37 4.1.2 History of anti-crime efforts
00:20:56 5 Education
00:21:05 5.1 Colleges and universities
00:21:54 5.2 Primary and secondary schools
00:22:03 5.2.1 Public schools
00:23:04 5.2.2 Private schools
00:23:12 6 Libraries
00:23:21 6.1 Municipal
00:23:29 6.1.1 Pollard Memorial Library / Lowell City Library
00:25:26 6.2 University
00:25:35 6.2.1 Lydon Library
00:26:08 6.2.2 O'Leary Library
00:26:38 6.2.3 Center for Lowell History
00:27:40 7 Infrastructure
00:27:49 7.1 Transportation
00:30:00 7.2 Hospitals
00:30:13 8 Arts and culture
00:30:22 8.1 Monthly Calendar of Events and Entertainment
00:30:42 8.2 Annual events
00:32:16 8.3 Points of interest
00:34:16 8.4 Culture
00:35:07 8.5 Museums and public galleries
00:35:59 8.6 Interactive and live performances
00:37:54 9 Sports, Teams and Athletic Venues
00:38:04 9.1 Boxing
00:38:38 9.2 Teams
00:39:13 9.3 Athletic Venues
00:40:34 10 Government
00:42:53 11 Media
00:43:01 11.1 Newspaper
00:43:35 11.2 Radio
00:44:03 11.3 Cable
00:44:18 12 Businesses started and/or products invented in Lowell
00:44:29 12.1 Current
00:45:19 12.2 Historical
00:46:24 12.3 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (current)
00:47:44 12.4 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (closed)
00:48:15 13 Notable people
00:48:27 14 Twin towns and sister cities
00:48:38 15 Honors
00:49:02 16 See also
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Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 109,945 in 2014, it is the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.
Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories. Many of the Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide, the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population.Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education.
Craft in America: INDUSTRY episode
craftinamerica.org. INDUSTRY: Handmade in the Creative Economy. Featuring Gee’s Bend quilters Lucy Mingo & Mary Ann Pettway, quilter Joe Cunningham, boat builder Graham McKay & Lowell’s Boat Shop, artist Bethanne Knudson & Libby O'Bryan & The Oriole Mill, jewelry artist Shane Yamane, Etsy. PBS premiere: May 2, 2014.
For more on Craft in America, visit craftinamerica.org.
All Craft in America programs are now viewable on craftinamerica.org, the PBS iPhone/iPad app and video.pbs.org/program/craft-in-america.
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The Power of Tangible Things
Lecture by:
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Department of History, Harvard University
Ivan Gaskell, Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Sara Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
Sarah Anne Carter, Curator and Director of Research, The Chipstone Foundation
Samantha van Gerbig, Photographer and Designer, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things continue to mesmerize. In this program, the authors of Tangible Things: Making History through Objects will conduct a lively conversation about Harvard “stuff”: the books, manuscripts, artwork, scientific specimens, ethnographic artifacts, and historical relics found in the University’s world-class collections. The speakers will share perspectives on some of Harvard’s collected items and challenge people to discover new ways of looking at, organizing, and interpreting the tangible things in our environment.
October 26, 2015, 6:00pm
Lowell City Council Meeting - 1/7/2020
Appalachia | Wikipedia audio article
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Appalachia
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- Socrates
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Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, southwesterly to the Great Smoky Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.
Appalachia | Wikipedia audio article
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Appalachia
00:02:01 1 Defining the Appalachian region
00:04:30 1.1 Etymology and pronunciation
00:06:53 2 History
00:07:02 2.1 Early history
00:10:04 2.2 The Appalachian frontier
00:12:14 2.3 Early 19th century
00:13:44 2.4 The U.S. Civil War
00:16:34 2.5 Late 19th and early 20th centuries
00:16:44 2.5.1 Economic boom
00:17:57 2.5.2 Stereotypes
00:19:32 2.5.3 Feuds
00:20:32 2.6 Modern Appalachia
00:22:46 3 Cities
00:23:28 4 Culture
00:23:37 4.1 Ethnic groups
00:26:14 4.2 Religion
00:28:26 4.3 Dialect
00:29:23 4.4 Education
00:31:03 4.5 Music
00:32:37 4.6 Literature
00:36:32 4.7 Folklore
00:39:03 4.8 Urban Appalachians
00:40:02 4.9 Communications
00:41:03 4.10 Appalachian studies
00:41:49 5 Economy
00:42:13 5.1 Agriculture
00:44:42 5.2 Logging
00:47:07 5.3 Coal mining
00:50:27 5.4 Manufacturing
00:52:46 5.5 Tourism
00:55:18 5.6 Poverty in Appalachia
00:58:52 5.7 Tax revenue and absentee land ownership
01:02:01 5.8 Appalachian Regional Commission
01:04:16 5.9 Transportation
01:06:13 6 Popular culture
01:11:42 6.1 'Appalachia' as the United States
01:12:44 7 Physiographic provinces
01:13:13 8 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, southwesterly to the Great Smoky Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.
Appalachia | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Appalachia
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, southwesterly to the Great Smoky Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.