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A recent edition of Bookmarks magazine (“For everyone who hasn’t read everything”) came into my possession. Motivated by the unexpected popularity in 2010 of Mark Twain’s “complete and unexpurgated autobiography”, released at Twain’s direction one hundred years after his death, Bookmarks suggests “some of the more interesting attempts by Americans…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Last week I posted some video of the City Council candidate forum on public safety and some readers indicated it might be useful to put links to the video in a place that could be easily retrieved throughout the campaign. I’ve done this by creating a “2011 Lowell City Council…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. We spend way too much for health care in the United States. In 2009, total expenditures on health were 17.4 percent of…
Read More »The 32nd Banjo and Fiddle Contest, sponsored by the Lowell National Historic Park, September 10, 2011, Boarding House Park. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor wrote the following essay three years ago, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He’s allowing us to post it once again: Seven years ago today, I was teaching a class at Greater Lowell Tech as a few hundred miles south of us, men guided…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My daughter-in-law’s cousin Peter Goodrich, 33, of Sudbury died on Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower. It seems that almost everyone in Massachusetts is connected in some way with one of the victims…
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Read More »Within days of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I sat down with a pencil and a yellow legal pad and made some notes about what had happened. There were no blogs back then so I never shared them with anyone. While cleaning out a drawer this summer I found…
Read More »I saved some of the front pages in the days following the 9-11 terrorist attack. Here’s a video that shares the headlines from that collection: [youtube]mdPa0G-Rg1w[/youtube]
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