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The 2017 Oscar nominations were recently announced and among the Best Picture nominees was Hidden Figures, a based-on-true-events film about three incredibly talented African-American women who worked at NASA in the early 1960s as the United States struggled to match the Soviets in the race to space. It is an…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of ABC News Over the weekend, we saw two competing visions of America in the form of citizens standing (and marching) for what they believe is best for the country, all of it in public view on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I wrote this poem…
Read More »Following are a few email messages between Malaysia and Lowell this weekend. The story begins with Swagata Sinha Roy finding a poem of mine, “Deep in the Weave,” on the web, very likely in a post by my blogging colleague Marie, who shared on this blog a post from the…
Read More »Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in 2002 captured businessman, now president-elect, Donald Trump talking about his favorite movie, “Citizen Kane.” Here’s an interview with Morris and a film clip. Thanks to lithub.com for the source material.
Read More »I’m not insensitive to the condition of the White Working Class today, which as an identity politics category seems accepted by chin-stroking pundits in comparison to Environmentalists, now some kind of No Go Zone for political strategists if you listen to the opinion writers (Don’t pander to those Green people).…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s blog. As befits the season, here are some little gifts, selected headlines I’d like to see next year. I have little expectation they will top newspapers or tease newscasts. Still, a gal can dream. Please add your own in the comments section…
Read More »With Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, I’ll skip my regular week in review column and instead share a very upbeat message from Anita Walker, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (of which Lowell’s own Rosemary Noon is a board member). This city is rich in culture, and…
Read More »This post was first heard as a radio essay on the Sunrise program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I have shared this essay with rh.com readers…
Read More »Note from Henri Marchand: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on the former UMass Lowell-produced morning show, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun, and later posted on this blog. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more…
Read More »This past Tuesday, the Pawtucket Prism public artwork alongside the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center at the confluence of Pawtucket Canal and Concord River, was re-dedicated on Tuesday. Paul Marion was there and wrote a blog post about the event and its significance. Tony Sampas was also there with…
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