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Remarks at Lowell Plan Breakfast (Sep 26, 2013)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Willie (Nov 2, 2010)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Musing on Moxie’s Lowell Roots (Aug 5, 2007)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Obamamania in Nashua (Jan 6, 2008)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Capturing Lowell in a Single Line: “Cummiskey Alley”
A review by Richard Howe of Cummiskey Alley: New and Selected Lowell Poems by Tom Sexton At the end of the bottom shelf of my big bookcase, after all the histories, memoirs, and biographies that are my usual literary diet, sit two books about poetry: Can Poetry Matter? by Dana…
Read More »Cartoons by Nicholas Whitmore
New Poem by Doug Sparks
Dog Walk at Harold Parker By Doug Sparks We walk in the woods when I should be at work. Walk — that’s a word easily defined — Unlike work — of the hours and the days. Shadowed by Diogenes (I’ll spare your looking him up — an Ancient Greek, He…
Read More »Flags of Lowell Veterans Organizations
The entry foyer of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium is known as the Hall of Flags for the 40 or so flags that hang high above the floor. Some of the flags are reproductions from the Revolutionary War era, but most represent the many Veterans Organizations that exist or that have…
Read More »New Short Story by David Daniel
New fiction from David Daniel. Windows By David Daniel A panel of writers, editors, and agents were talking on the radio about how publishing has changed, taken over by Amazon and e-books and POD, literary agents running scared, good books and bad glutting the market, most with nary a ripple…
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