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Earlier tonight my news feed brought a story about the recent identification of the remains of the twelve man crew of a B-24 Liberator that crashed in the Pacific in 1943. The co-pilot of the aircraft was 21-year old 2LT Martin P Murray of Lowell, Massachusetts. It turns out that…
Read More »Please welcome two new websites to our blogroll which is located in the right-hand column of this site. First is “Keepers of Tradition” which is written by Maggie Holtzberg, the Director of Cultural Programming for the Lowell National Historical Park. This blog focuses on traditional arts and folk heritage. Maggie’s…
Read More »E. J. Dionne, a native of Southeastern Mass. and opinion writer for the Washington Post, gave thumbs up to President Obama for his speech about how we can best manage the federal budget. Read his column here, which I picked up from Facebook friend Nomi Herbstman (who grew up next…
Read More »The Eagle atop Lowell City Hall by Tony Sampas
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day – April 13, 1933 – the first enrollees in the Massachusetts Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) arrived at Fort Devens in Ayer. Creating the CCC was an effort by newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to attack “the catastrophic unemployment and economic dislocation…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Stockholm syndrome describes what happens when someone taken hostage develops positive feelings for his captors. Barack Obama has been held hostage by the Republicans in Congress and in some ways is beginning to emulate them.…
Read More »I was an early adopter of the Flip video camera. Small, simple and inexpensive, the Flip yielded many interesting videos for me. I’ve urged many people to buy one of their own. Flip’s popularity was confirmed two years ago when Cisco, the wildly successful computer networking company purchased Flip for…
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