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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s too early to talk seriously about Presidential impeachment. Increasing reports about apparent obstruction of justice or enrichment of Donald Trump’s own and family businesses in violation of the emoluments clause are still at the fact-gathering stage, especially now that former FBI Director…
Read More »One of my uncles passed away yesterday at 97 years old. In my family he was always “Uncle Tommy,” Thomas C. Brady of Lowell, raised along the Concord River and longtime resident of Centralville. He was in the US Navy in WWII, serving in the Atlantic and Pacific on ships…
Read More »When UMass Lowell honored Steve Panagiotakos last week, the former state senator in his remarks explained that the house he grew up in, the house he lives in now, and the law office he works in, are all within a few blocks of each other in Lowell. He has never…
Read More »Here’s the Mass Moments for today. Kerouac is writing “The Town and the City” in 1948, which would be his first published novel (1950).
Read More »Writer Andrew Sullivan looks at (1) the weird speech suppression at Middlebury College that happened recently when students (and maybe other protestors) shut down a guest speaker and (2) the damage Pres. Trump is doing with his attacks on reality, facts, and the American Way. Read the essay here, and…
Read More »Jack Kerouac, March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969 Above photo is from “Kerouac Retrieved” exhibit at UMass Lowell’s Allen House, with text from the Beat Spotlight, Kerouac’s final and unfinished scroll composition.
Read More »I’ll have my newest book, “Lowell Municipal Elections: 1965-2015” for sale this coming Saturday, March 4, 2017 from noon to 5 p.m. at Mill No. 5’s “Pulp and Press” event. The book contains the results of every city council and school committee race for the past 50 years, plus stories…
Read More »We get two great alumni magazines regularly – one from UMass Lowell and the other from Boston College… the Winter 2017 BC magazine just arrived with a terrific article about an old Lowell friend… Seamus Connolly. in The Legacy – folklorist and musician Mick Moloney tells us of the great…
Read More »I’m thinking this morning, What’s wrong with this picture? President Trump, less than a month in office, has everyone talking about him and his White House crew. He continues to suck all the media oxygen out of the air. The mainstream media, including cable TV political reporters, have gone back…
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