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Earlier this week the Boston Globe reported that the U.S. Department of the Interior is providing funds to restore the historic monument on Dorchester Heights. (“Dorchester Heights monument in South Boston to undergo multi-million dollar restoration”). The monument commemorates the action by the colonial army under the command of George…
Read More »Living Madly – Eulogy for a Sugar Maple By Emilie-Noelle Provost Ten years ago when we moved into our house, one of the things we liked most about the yard was the large sugar maple tree growing beside the driveway. I could tell the tree was old by the thick,…
Read More »Back in the late 1980s, Lowell had its first St. Patrick’s Day breakfast which immediately became the signature political event of the year. Modeled on the much longer running South Boston St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, the Lowell version took place in the downtown Hilton Hotel (today’s UMass Lowell Inn &…
Read More »Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! Two hundred years ago Hugh Cummiskey, an Irish immigrant living in Charlestown, Massachusetts, led a group of his countrymen on a 30 mile walk along the Middlesex Canal to the sparsely settled farming community of East Chelmsford. Cummiskey had heard that a group…
Read More »Coffee Shop Musings #8 By Bob Hodge Three pieces and a song from Bob Hodge. The Boy’s Club I must have been around eight, nine or ten when I first started going to the Lowell Boy’s Club on Dutton Street by the Haffner’s gas station with the kicking mule logo…
Read More »The 2022 edition of The Lowell Review is available for purchase on the Lulu.com print-on-demand publishing website. With contributions from across the United States plus Ireland, Morocco, Hungary, and the U.K., The Lowell Review 2022 contains writing and poetry about the pandemic, politics and other contemporary topics but also has…
Read More »Le Hibou Gregory F. DeLaurier It’s a hot summer day in 1966 and we’re on the road again. Bryan is driving his Dad’s Chrysler, The Rolling Stones’ ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’ is blasting from the radio. We are young, happy and excited, laughing at silly jokes, talking about girls.…
Read More »GNOMES, A NEW CHALLENGE A sad and pathetic comedic piece By Jerry Bisantz A Gnome. The casting call was for the role of a garden gnome. A garden gnome. Now, before you make any kind of decision on how you feel about this “casting call,” a little bit of back…
Read More »Boarding School Blues: Chapter 31 By Louise Peloquin Ch. 31: A nice kind of weird Blanche, Titi and Andy didn’t get a chance to talk about their holiday activities before Monday afternoon’s recreation when they took possession of their favorite spot on campus – a grove where felled pine trees…
Read More »Mrs. Dalton Lay Teacher & The Urchins of Lowell By Bob Hodge In the fifth grade at St. Patrick’s School, Lowell, MA when I was nine years old I had my first lay teacher Mrs. Dalton. Prior to and after fifth grade my classmates and I were taught by the…
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