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Shout Out to All the Dads by Chris Wilkinson “What’s happening in the video?” Hey, you know what was a hard conversation for the white father of a brown son? Explaining race-based injustice to an almost six year old (who I’m certain will have struggles in life that I can’t…
Read More »Here’s a post I did on June 14, 2007, with some background information added at the beginning . . . Background On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (440 Mass. 309). Here are the opening lines of the…
Read More »Wapack Hike for the Wild: Two Local Couples Strive to Protect Open Space and Wild Land On June 6, 2020, Emilie-Noelle Provost and Robert Hamilton of Lowell and Suzanne and Thomas Perry of Londonderry, New Hampshire, will hike the entire 21.5 Wapack Trail, which runs north-south from Ashburnham and Ashby,…
Read More »A tale from the pandemic . . . DON’T WALK AWAY by Jerry Bisantz I’ve become a whiner. I hate this Covid bullshit. This assault on my life. This pent up anger at not being able to sit at a goddamn bar, watch a Sox game, drink a beer. People…
Read More »In her recent blog post, Linda Hoffman brings an artist’s eye to the spring apple orchard.
Read More »A recent journal article authored by some familiar names contributes important new evidence to our understanding of the earliest Irish immigrants in Lowell. “Migration and Memorials: Irish Cultural Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts” (published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology on December 18, 2019) examines the iconography of…
Read More »Poet and activist Emily Ferrara of Lowell has become a field worker for the 2020 Census. On her blog, The Body Politic, she recently wrote about the grass roots work of the census is about to resume. Thanks to Emily for allowing us to cross-post her article here. The 2020…
Read More »This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to June 3, 2013, and a visit to Lowell by Grammy Award winning singer/song writer Carole King. Paul Marion wrote the following blog post to document her visit which had her attend a campaign rally for Ed Markey who was then running for…
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