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Mort de César, Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798 Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry “Caesar!” Speak, Caesar is turn’d to hear. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: A soothsayer bids you…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that today’s state of Maine began as a separate colony in the 1620s but from the 1650s until 1820, it was part of Massachusetts. The selling of public land in Maine for debt relief in the 1790s saw the landscape and demographics change. As thousands of families from…
Read More »U. S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts presides over the House Chamber in this image from 1926. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives) For many years Edith Nourse Rogers held the record as the longest serving woman in the Congress. Rogers followed her deceased husband John Jacob Rogers…
Read More »Every once in a while there is a photo posted on this site of politicos from our Lowell/Greater Lowell past. I came across this photo posted elsewhere by LHS board member and young activist Lowellian Corey Sciuto. Do you remember these players and anything about their connections? Where was the…
Read More »Reminder for next GLAD Meeting Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) and Third Middlesex Area Democrats Joint Breakfast Meeting Next Saturday March 17, 2012 8:00 AM SHARP Agenda to be posted! Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Special guests: 6th District Congressman John Tierney Candidates for the Democratic nomination – 3rd…
Read More »Ayer Mill and Clock Tower in Lawrence, Massachusett The March issue of Boston Magazine has a scathing article about the City of Lawrence penned by “novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, investigative journalist…” from Methuen, Massachusetts – Jay Atkinson entitled “City of the Damned” wherein he describes Lawrence as “the most godforsaken place in…
Read More »Thanks to the Tewksbury Patch, here’s the candidate lineup for the Tewksbury Town election that takes place on Saturday April 14, 2012. Read the full article here: http://tewksbury.patch.com/articles/municipal-ballot-set-robinson-out-sullivan-in Candidates (Final) Tookout Papers Returned Papers Board of Selectmen (2 seats for three years) I-David Gay Yes Yes I-Scott Wilson Yes Yes…
Read More »Jim Peters sent along the following essay: I have some major health issues that sometimes I can forget about; to be dredged up at another time. One of those recently caused me to reconsider running for State Committee. I was mentally ready for a run, but physically I had to…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held tomorrow – Saturday February 18, , 2012 – at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include updates and discussion on: ward/town caucuses for the 2012 convention delegate…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day February 11, 1812 the infamous political creature known as the “Gerrymander” was born in the Massachusetts State House – conceived by then Governor Elbridge Gerry – a staunch Democrat-Republican. Caught in a nasty campaign for control of the government, Gerry sign a redistricting bill…
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