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A reminder for you locavores that the Lowell Farmers’ Market is on hiatus this week since the JFK Plaza is set-up for music, food and dancing at the 2015 Lowell Folk Festival. Open on Fridays from 12-5pm, the Farmers’ Market will be back on schedule next week with “Earth Fest”…
Read More »American author, poet, civic activist Henry David Thoreau was a man of action when it came to his beliefs and conscience. Learn about his act of “civil disobedience” here in a post from the archive…. July 23, 1846 ~ Thoreau Jailed! Walked in from the Woods… July 23, 2013 by Marie Posted in Greater…
Read More »Before Luna Theatre, before the Lowell Film Collaborative, there was FLICKS! (For Lowell Interesting Cinema KaperS!), a local film society that was popular in the early 1980s. The organization screened films, often at the Speare House restaurant on Pawtucket Boulevard (it was near the Dunkin Donuts, opposite the UMass Lowell…
Read More »Again there is activity along River Road in Andover! What will happen to the massive St. Francis Seminary on River Road? Many have fond memories of the Christmas light display created by the seminarians. Just down the street from my home on Fiske Street, the building and property has been…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) will meet tomorrow ~ Saturday morning June 20, 2015 at 8:00am/SHARP in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford . Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday June 20, 2015 at 8:00 AM At the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte. 110…
Read More »Years ago, I wrote a rhyming poem about an incident at Bunker Hill described in Silas Coburn’s “History of Dracut.” The story is that Captain Peter Coburn of Dracut led a company of men from his town in the battle. He was shot by the British three times, in the…
Read More »Reaching back into the archive ~ While later today we will remember the 150th anniversary of the dedication of Lowell’s Ladd and Whitney Monument, we will also remember that today June 17 is “Bunker Hill Day” ~ Bunker Hill Day marks the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, also known…
Read More »Back on January 1st I shared some memories of past New Year’s. Most were pleasant memories; one was not. That concerned the murder of Dr. Hugh Mahoney, his wife, and their 14-year old son in their Tewksbury home late in evening of December 31, 1975. Here’s the portion of my…
Read More »The twists and turns of life and the human condition are often unpredictable. On this day ~ May 30 1971 ~ our former United States Senator for Massachusetts – one-time Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and our current United States Secretary of State – the President’s chief foreign…
Read More »I’ve posted this poem from 1978 on the blog before. It was written soon after the experience that provided the brief story thread. In those days, I was constantly on the lookout for images and incidents that could feed a new composition. I wanted to write, write, write. It’s a slight piece, but has…
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