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It’s about ten days early in the month for the timing of this post about a 2010 canal-side hike that appeared first on this blog and was reprinted in my book Mill Power. The weather is warming, and soon enough we’ll be into the days of preseason Lowell Walks and…
Read More »Former FBI director James Comey speaks out on the GOP attacks on the agency. We are at a very weird stage of our democracy,” former FBI counterterrorism special agent Ali Soufan told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “It’s not just about the FBI. It’s about loyalty to the president, or loyalty…
Read More »Federal government shut-down shenanigans. Big shout-out to our man on the White House beat, Jonathan Lemire from Lowell of the Associated Press and MSNBC TV, for his crisp, insightful, and informed commentary when paired last night with veteran broadcaster Brian Williams as they followed the folly in the US Senate…
Read More »Through the years, writers on this blog have taken up the subject of Place as a way to talk about what it means to feel part of a community. The term “sense of place” is familiar to most of us, but that feeling is intangible and sometimes difficult to…
Read More »MORE FROM THE PAGE’S RESTAURANT DRINKS MENU (From the mid-20th century) Page’s Restaurant at the Clock in the Square Lowell, Massachusetts Wine List Cocktail Bar Main Dining Room … Private Dining Room Second Floor Fountain Specials on Back Page . . . Scotch Whiskies White Horse .35 Black and White…
Read More »Ink drawing of Page’s Clock by Richard Marion, c. 1975 (Menu text from the 20th century, maybe early 1940s) Page’s Restaurant At the Clock in the Square, Lowell, Massachusetts Wine List, Cocktail Bar Main Dining Room … Private Dining Room (Second Floor) Fountain Specials on Back Page Whiskies Straight or…
Read More »We’ve been posting this brief Christmas essay long enough that it has become a tradition on the blog, along with Henri Marchand’s essay about making fruitcake for the holidays. The piles and bags of oranges are prominent in the produce sections of local supermarkets this month. If you have your…
Read More »Dick Howe, Jr., encouraged me to mine my files for writing that can be posted on the blog as a way to look back on recent history. Over the years, Charles Nikitopoulos and I have exchanged hundreds of email messages about all kinds of things. Charlie is a retired professor…
Read More »Here’s another entry about politics from my 1992 personal journal. I had been volunteering in Paul Tsongas’s presidential campaign for about a year when he suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination on March 19 for lack of capacity to keep battling Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Paul had won…
Read More »The campaign to succeed U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas in the Third Congressional District next year has gone from start to overdrive in no time. Lately, poking around in a pile of old journals at home, I found this account of a political moment in Lowell in 1992, during another hot…
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