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‘Checking the Property’ — for Presidents’ Day

February 17, 2013 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell, Poetry, Politics, Election 2012, Culture, Current Events Leave a Comment

Here’s a hat tip to the climate-change demonstrators in Washington, D.C., who are speaking on behalf of the planet this holiday weekend. Lowelltown is as white tonight as the monuments in the capital city. I wrote this poem after a family trip to Washington in the summer of 2004. There…

Recollections of M. Brendan Fleming (1994)

February 17, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Politics, City Council 3 Comments

Following is an excerpt of a 1994 interview (oral history) of M. Brendan Fleming, professor emeritus of UMass Lowell and former mayor and city councilor of Lowell. The interviewer was Maryrose Lane. The full transcription of the oral history is available on the website of the UMass Lowell Center for…