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In the spring and the fall each year, I lead free public tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. This month, tours will occur on Friday, September 9 at 1 pm and Saturday, September 10 at 10 am. Another set will occur on Friday, September 30 at 1 pm and Saturday, October…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Going to two baseball games, a week apart, in San Francisco and Boston, invites comparisons between the two cities, and random thoughts how, in recent years, each has moved beyond its postcard personas. AT&T Park AT&T…
Read More »A co-worker recently loaned me South Station, a 2005 novel by Alice Barton who the book jacket describes as a “poet and longtime teacher of writing at the University of Massachusetts at Boston [who] lives on Cape Cod.” This book broke into my usual stream of nonfiction because it is…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former ambassador and Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is working New Hampshire hard to win next year’s Republican primary there as a linchpin of his presidential campaign. He still registers a scant two percent in national GOP polls, but…
Read More »A couple of national news items caught my attention and seemed deserving of quick comment: Federal Disaster Aid: It always seemed that one of the bedrock values of America was that when one section of the country was hammered by a natural disaster, we all pitched in with our tax…
Read More »A newspaper story the other day caught my eye. It reported that 16 people have contracted severe eye infections and some have gone blind from a drug injected into their eyes to treat a disease called macular degeneration (MD). The drug in question is called Avastin. It was developed as…
Read More »Here’s the schedule for this fall’s tours of Lowell Cemetery: Friday – September 9 – 1 pm Saturday – September 10 – 10 am Friday – September 30 – 1 pm Saturday – October 1 – 10 am The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance which is right next…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My husband, Jim Barron, and I have finally hit on a way to finance our eventual retirement. Let’s call it don’tgo.com. Here’s how it would work. If you’re worried about a pending natural disaster, or even a financial…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren’s pre-campaign for the United States Senate seemed to enter a new phase yesterday. Previously, she’s attended a bunch of invitation-only, off the record house parties that were closed to the media. Yesterday she visited the Boston Globe which has a story by Frank Phillips and Noah Bierman and…
Read More »The Globe reports that former Lowell City Manager Joe Tully pleaded guilty yesterday in US District Court to one count of wire fraud in a case that arose out of the closing-then-relocation of the Registry of Motor Vehicles office in the city. While the maximum possible sentence could be up…
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