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Notes from a Plane By Christine O’Connor After a brief vacation in the American southwest, I jotted a few notes on the flight home: there are 16 million Mormons worldwide; the canyons had nine formations over 150 million years; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was filmed in Zion; roadside…
Read More »Maurice Cohen, the co-founder and former owner of radio station WCAP, died recently at age 100. In the August 2, 2021, Lowell Sun, Barry Scanlon wrote an excellent appreciation of Maurice’s life. In 2012 while writing “Legendary Locals of Lowell,” I interviewed Maurice. He shared a number of photographs with…
Read More »Cultural Tourism, Following in the Steps of Our Artistic Heroes By Malcolm Sharps I’m making this recommendation not to the oldies of my generation but to younger people, particularly to those in their twenties and thirties; that was the age when I did it myself. Profit from the knowledge of…
Read More »Dental Tales By David Daniel One: Music The dental hygienist wants to talk about music, which is issuing quietly from the speaker in the laptop open on the counter. The screen displays my most recent set of x-rays. But x-rays seem incidental; she’s going on about singers she likes—Nora Jones…
Read More »Boarding School Blues By Louise Peloquin Ch. 18: Dress up, sit up, chin up The afternoon’s special guest positioned herself in front of the lectern while the headmistress took her seat on the nuns’ platform. Adeline Greenwood’s slim athletic build was similar to Sister Roger’s. Blanche thought maybe she played…
Read More »The Boston Globe’s “New England Literary News” section recently featured We Hold on to What We Can, a new book of poems by Sarah Alcott Anderson that is published by Loom Press. Here’s what the Globe wrote about Anderson’s book: In her wise and elegant debut collection “We Hold on…
Read More »I Was a Teenage Bibliophile By Pierre V. Comtois This story originally appeared in River Muse: Tales of Lowell and the Merrimack Valley. It’s hard to believe now, but at one time Lowell was a veritable Mecca for lovers of the written word with books and magazines available almost everywhere…
Read More »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…
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