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Tinkertoys By David Daniel Lucy is in Boston for a three-day conference on commercial architecture. She grew up in the city’s suburbs, and although she has not been back in twenty-five years and no longer has family in the area, she nevertheless finds herself experiencing an unexpected sense of return.…
Read More »Nonesuch River By James Provencher We walk the bank of the Nonesuch River through Scarborough Marsh heading toward Pine Point. We wind with the tidal stream through grey-green raspy tussocks and pungent mudflats. Where the ground goes flat in salt marshes creeping and laced with creeks seeping down to the…
Read More »Thanks to the Lowell Sun for taking note of The Lowell Review (2021). Here’s what was written in Sunday’s political column: Under further review TWO WELL-known and respected Lowellians, Richard Howe Jr. and Paul Marion, have combined their literary skills and historical knowledge to launch the publication of The Lowell…
Read More »William C. Crawford is a social worker, writer, and photographer who lives in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He was a photojournalist in Vietnam and has since written a number of books of photography and on other topics. The following story about Crawford’s friend and mentor Ollie Noonan Jr. (an AP…
Read More »Under the Same Sun By Mark Cote I watched a young boy play in the sand at the beach the other day, never growing tired of the shifting waterline as it took with it his attempts at building sand castles and sand dinosaurs. All day long, wrestling with his brother,…
Read More »Boarding School Blues By Louise Peloquin Ch. 17: On the Agenda In the run-up to Thanksgiving, testing set the beat as teachers were bent on evaluating performance. Students seemed to resist the temptation to daydream in study hall and even Andy filled her Oxford copybooks with school notes rather than…
Read More »This article originally appeared in the Summer 2021 edition of The Epitaph, the quarterly newsletter of Lowell Cemetery. Dr. Gilman Kimball (1804-1892) During the second half of the nineteenth century, Lowell became the center of the lucrative patent medicine business. Three of the primary purveyors – James C. Ayer, Charles…
Read More »Last week a friend emailed that he was taking a quick vacation trip to the shore of Lake Champlain. While the lake is a delightful destination relatively close to Lowell, I know it best as one of the most important places in American history, especially American military history. Noted British…
Read More »Congratulations to LaLa Books which had its grand opening last Friday (July 23) at 189 Market Street (next to Warp & Weft). I visited on Saturday and was impressed with what I saw. It’s spacious and well laid-out and from its appropriately-sized inventory of books on the shelf, I found…
Read More »A World Underground: Summer Rains Set Off a Merrimack Valley Mushroom Explosion By Doug Sparks This has been and will likely continue to be an exceptional year for Merrimack Valley mushroom hunters because of the unusual volume of rain. Unfortunately, it’s also a great year if you happen to be…
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