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My West Virginia and Jack Kerouac’s Lowell By Steve Edington This article originally appeared in the online journal WestVirginiaVille. When I graduated from Marshall University in 1967 my known world did not extend beyond southern West Virginia and southern Ohio. Beginning in my early teens, I would make a…
Read More »Budgets, Balances & Briefs – (PIP #67) By Louise Peloquin More money matters… L’ETOILE – October 16, 1924 THE BUREAU OF HYGIENE MUST ECONOMIZE ——- The city auditor’s quarterly report reveals the city’s financial position. ——- Yesterday, city auditor Daniel F. Martin gave…
Read More »Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting led off with a motion by Councilor Erik Gitschier that the council send a letter to “our state delegation” expressing the council’s opposition to House Bill 2347, “An Act to Promote Yes in God’s Back Yard.” The bill’s goal is to promote more housing by…
Read More »Last Voyage of the Sholokhov By Jim Provencher She was a scow really, a defunct dinosaur of the sealanes, shipping out of Vladivostock supplying quick cash flow for the Mother Country when the West had won and things were slow. An odd mix, the motley crew and cheap-fare cruise customers,…
Read More »A Classical Education By Stephen O’Connor A woman who I suppose was trying to impress upon me the extent of her minimalism once told me that she could live a perfectly happy life without a television or radio, without coffee and dessert, without wine, and without music. That final bit…
Read More »Lowell First to Protest – (PIP #66) By Louise Peloquin Journalists all over the globe have gone into overdrive covering the latest economic roller coaster rides. 101 years ago, price wars and currency issues made the news. L’Etoile – July 15, 1924 A gasoline price war is suggested ——- …
Read More »This month is the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Phnom Penh by the brutal Khmer Rouge fighters in Cambodia. I was a junior at the University of Lowell in Massachusetts reading newspaper articles and watching TV reports as what we called the Vietnam War expanded in the region. None…
Read More »The Lowell City Council had a light agenda on Tuesday night so today I’ll step back from current city politics and share some history. I’ve long been fascinated by all the important events that seem to have happened over time in the middle of April. As is almost always the…
Read More »On Thursday, April 17, 2025, more than 100 people gathered near the Cambodian monument at Lowell City Hall to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Cambodian Genocide. Congresswoman Lori Trahan spoke at the vigil. Here is my transcript of her remarks: We gather here to reflect on…
Read More »The Liberty Pole Capping By Rich Grady I attended The Liberty Pole Capping in Bedford, Massachusetts, on April 12th. It was a first for me, but if I knew what I had been missing, I would have made a better effort to witness it before now. Here’s a description of…
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