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This is National Friends of Libraries Week. The Friends of the Pollard Memorial Library will be observing this occasion with two events: Thursday, October 24 at 6pm in the Community Meeting Room: Friends of the Pollard Memorial Library Meet & Greet. This is your chance to learn more about the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Despite 12 candidates shoe-horned on the stage, last night’s debate was important. Health care was a key issue in the 2018 mid-terms, a winning issue for the Democrats. Nothing has changed since then. But drilling down into the…
Read More »Do-It-Yourself Lowell held its fourth annual Community Idea Summit on September 26, 2019 at which the group announced its four community-selected projects for 2020. Each project has its own action team that will work at its own pace and on its own schedule. Below are descriptions of the four projects…
Read More »George Packer of the ATLANTIC magazine checks in with today’s bulletin on political bottom-feeders with their eyes on the top and hands grabbing for the prize. They win sometimes, but it doesn’t last forever.
Read More »TIME magazine is no far-out political rag. Nancy Gibbs is a serious American writer and observer of its civic culture. We are far down the line of political trouble when Nancy Gibbs in TIME offers this analysis of the current White House occupant. What Donald Trump “knows” derives from the…
Read More »Our friend in Lowell, D-Tension, the writer, performing artist, record producer, and all around-er, recently shared this appreciation of Arthur Ramalho, icon of the city’s boxing scene on his Facebook page. With his permission, we are cross-posting the piece here. The image of the famed trainer is by Danielle Levitt,…
Read More »The author of two novels and a collection of short stories, Smokestack Lightning, Stephen O’Connor of Lowell is a past contributor to this blog whose writing in included in History As It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017), a collection of the best of the RichardHowe.com blog in its…
Read More »Chath lives and works on a small family farm in Bolton, Mass., where he contemplates writing as a form of escape, but he can’t just rid himself of human ties. He paints the American sky thinking of Cambodia’s tyranny and blood. He’s alone, but not lonely, and tries living to…
Read More »Hannah Arendt (web photo courtesy of the L.A. Times) Certain national observers have been saying for some time that America is in a state of emergency, and many of us have felt like that since late 2016. This is no normal time. The policy disruption at the federal level is…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons We write about a lot of things here, many under the umbrellas of politics and history. There’s no escaping the religious element in our present political moment when ethical questions about fair payment for work done, equal treatment of all persons, humane responses to…
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