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The play’s scenery is minimal: a chair or two, a table and the occasional hat material. Instead, our attention is focused through light, sound and incredibly creative costume. Garish blue and red and a combination of what sounds like church bells and clanging crowbars puts added stress...
“I am in that room, but it’s not really for the bells,” Laursen said. “It’s just that it worked out for my roommates and I who wanted that floor layout.”
There are even rumors floating around Lowell that one of the members of the society, Lucas T. Laursen ’06, actually picked his suite on the top floor of F-entryway so that he could be closer to the bells. Laursen, however, quickly dismissed such musings as fantasy...
But following this period of hostility, some students began to accept and embrace the bells, and eventually formed the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers during the 1950s to ensure that they would be rung on an active basis, a tradition that is still practiced to this day.
And though the bell ringers may lack the talent of the Russian monks who visited Lowell in December 2003, that’s okay; it’s loud banging, not professional skill that is prized. The regulars actively encourage the first-time visitors to go up to the platform...