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In anticipation of “The Fighter” receiving some Academy Award nominations later today, here’s another view of the Google map mashup I created to show the various places in Lowell where filming of “The Fighter” occurred. You might want to check out the original post which has 31+ helpful comments from…
Read More »With another 12 inches on the way, Tony Sampas reminds us of the amount of snow already on the ground.
Read More »Welcome to our newest contributor, Jack McDonough, who formerly read his essays on WUML’s Sunrise program. Here’s his first submission to this site: The Mail Order Tree I don’t remember how old I was when my father sent away for that Tulip tree. I guess I was twelve or so.…
Read More »A study of light and shadow by Tony Sampas, featuring Lowell’s North Common Village
Read More »At 5 am the thermometer read -3 degrees so I bundled up and headed out for a walk. With the right clothes, it wasn’t too bad, but with no fleece for the dog, we cut the walk short and returned a half hour later. I thought the temperature had gone…
Read More »Growing up in the 1960’s, while home from school on snow days or sick days, I would sometimes stumble on to the Jack Lalanne show as I spun the TV dial from Jack Chase and Don Kent on Channel 4 to Major Mudd on Channel 7. Lalanne was a bit…
Read More »Ivy, our Yellow Lab, celebrates her 3rd birthday today.
Read More »Nancye Tuttle calls Tryst “captivating, frightening and all-enveloping. Read her review of the Merrimack Repertory Theater’s latest play on Nancye’s blog.
Read More »Marie just did a post about efforts to save the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, the place where Lowell resident Henry Abbott was killed in action. Above is a photo of his monument in the Lowell Cemetery, which sits alongside an identical monument for his brother Edward, who was killed earlier…
Read More »Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor share some thoughts on Comcast, MTV, and that cable channel’s controversial new show, Skins: I spent a half hour on the phone yesterday, half of that on hold, with Comcast. I had been watching a report on CNN earlier about a new drama called “Skins” to…
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